tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post7401151306466883040..comments2024-03-26T03:31:06.199-04:00Comments on Ask a Korean!: The Forgotten Neoliberal Man of ParasiteT.K. (Ask a Korean!)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07663422474464557214noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-91921654045978463602020-04-13T10:12:57.485-04:002020-04-13T10:12:57.485-04:00Professional Packers And Movers Bangalore Local ho...Professional Packers And Movers Bangalore Local house transferred Service company, Get Free great expenses Quotes Regional Packers and Movers in Bangalore List , Assess estimates, Save Money And Time.<br /><br />nice Packers And Movers Bangalore Local post, we loved each and every thing according to published in your post. Thank you because of this informative article since it's really assistance, I like site. 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If the age disparity was bigger, then it would be disturbing...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976414798827984722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-27556505845047215152020-03-31T00:26:56.825-04:002020-03-31T00:26:56.825-04:00Is it fair to say Korea's version of capitalis...Is it fair to say Korea's version of capitalism created a pyramid scheme society?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976414798827984722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-63176620681383091912020-03-11T10:26:22.201-04:002020-03-11T10:26:22.201-04:00Please let us know how do you think the Kim's,...Please let us know how do you think the Kim's, the Oh's and the Park's would have voted at the latest elections. Who's for Trump, Bernie or Clinton/Biden. Ciprianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04155215337186534185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-86166065103243510042020-03-11T04:29:12.352-04:002020-03-11T04:29:12.352-04:00thanks for your honesty!thanks for your honesty!sandsofsilencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237943468787175975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-85704322472361988582020-03-10T20:53:00.152-04:002020-03-10T20:53:00.152-04:00Great article! Thank you! You may find it interest...Great article! Thank you! You may find it interesting that, as an upper middle class Canadian, I found myself identifying with the Parks (to my disgust)!! I wonder how many other spoiled yuppies or bourgeois leftists experienced similar discomfort? Bong Joon-ho is indeed a genius.Senator-Electhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573789125216977930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-28015862558135024552020-03-10T20:47:53.702-04:002020-03-10T20:47:53.702-04:00Good point! Maybe another form of inequality? Male...Good point! Maybe another form of inequality? Male-female, elder-younger, teacher-student power imbalances?Senator-Electhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573789125216977930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-68784482077156218132020-03-10T20:46:57.727-04:002020-03-10T20:46:57.727-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Senator-Electhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04573789125216977930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-86379253851744515132020-03-10T16:05:34.768-04:002020-03-10T16:05:34.768-04:00Thank you for your great article. I confess that I...Thank you for your great article. I confess that I couldn't deal with the sorrow and cruel reality the film presented, which I found void of of emotion, too acid to digest, while recognizing its great value as social critique, and fantastic script and acting. But your insightful perspective has inspired me to watch it again. This film is universal, and the kick in the butt of the lower class towards the lowest class can be seen everywhere. I have especially witnessed it in the U.S. among many Mexicans migrants who cross the border and after a generation, or just a few years or even a few months, give a kick in the ass to their country men that are replicating the exodus they once took, and for the same reason. Kamsa hamnida.sandsofsilencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237943468787175975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-63461212262228963112020-03-08T21:51:48.510-04:002020-03-08T21:51:48.510-04:00I find the struggle of the poor vs. other poor peo...I find the struggle of the poor vs. other poor people to be fascinating, even in American society. Those who struggle to find a way up the ladder vs. those who have grimly accepted that they will always be poor. There is also a struggle between those who are at the poverty line and those who are far beneath it. Poorer people have the least sympathy for the homeless in my experience. Then there are those who resent that someone seems to have cheated their way up while those who play fair and are honest and diligent struggle and fail. Money, and your economic position, is a huge factor in a lot of animosity and fighting in society, but we don't talk about that quite as much as we do racial and gender inequality because it is so complicated and nobody really comes out looking as good as they would expect. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634134149992302846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-33074741012733702802020-03-08T11:15:40.270-04:002020-03-08T11:15:40.270-04:00While the main themes of this article interest me,...While the main themes of this article interest me, I find it a little dishonest to say that there is almost no discussion about the Oh family. There is plenty. It is just that they take a backseat to the Kim and Park family because that is what the movie did. So, the Oh's are treated as the third in a group of three. They get mentioned and discussed, but only within the context of the other two. Since the reveal is a twist within the structure of the movie, discussions of Geun-sae tend to get pushed to the middle or even the end of longer discussions of the movie in general. And just as the Parks are seen primarily within the context of the Kim family, so are the Ohs. This may not be fair, but it is not nothing. <br /><br />In fact, when someone entered a twitter discussion about Parasite movie posters to complain that Joker should have won the Oscars because of its focus on mental health, someone responded that Parasite addressed that subject matter as well, pretty much spoiling the reveal of Geun-sae to someone who obviously had not seen Parasite.<br /><br />The movie has also garnered a bit of a nerd following, both from fans of Bong's work and of movies in general. And such people tend to obsess over stuff like architecture, production design, music, food, cinematography, etc. Many of them also tend to be protective regarding spoilers, though to varying degrees and regarding different parts of the movie. So, sure there is going to be a lot of articles focusing on stairs and ram-don compared to articles about Geun-sae. <br /><br />There are plenty of articles (and videos) talking about the Oh family. They may not focus on them until towards the end. They may not be as substantive as you would like or they may totally miss the mark, but they are there. And I am guessing that maybe within a year or two there may be discussions focusing on the Oh family specifically, as opposed to how they break up the rich-poor dichotomy of the Kims and Parks. <br /><br />Now, if we are talking about parts of the story that do not get talked about, I have seen almost no discussion about the adult protagonist getting into a relationship with a high school girl.Abagaderiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165159457149020078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-26801598822747372162020-03-07T05:11:02.789-05:002020-03-07T05:11:02.789-05:00I liked this analysis very much until the end:
&q...I liked this analysis very much until the end:<br /><br />"for those who care about inequality, the messages presented through Geun-sae is too horrible to contemplate: that class solidarity is impossible, that the rage of the lowest socioeconomic status is never directed to those at the top of the structure, that even after nihilistic destruction of lives, the machinery of capitalism continues to churn, imprisoning bodies and minds."<br /><br />Rich irony in a piece that supposedly critiques neoliberalism ending on a note that ... serves neoliberalism's goals. "Impossible"? "Never"? Don't struggle, don't bother, you'll only end up fighting someone just like yourself, and capitalism will win. <br /><br />International Marxist Tendency and other communist groups teach different. Try chatting with us and reading some of our literature sometime. <br /><br />But most of all: the future is NOT set. We can't afford the luxury of despair. Join us. testingwithfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03038810305314082088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-4164415459551964812020-03-05T13:54:11.887-05:002020-03-05T13:54:11.887-05:00Really great point on the pizzeria owner. Thank yo...Really great point on the pizzeria owner. Thank you for that.T.K. (Ask a Korean!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07663422474464557214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-63665311965909208972020-03-05T13:38:48.401-05:002020-03-05T13:38:48.401-05:00This is why I keep coming back to your blog! More ...This is why I keep coming back to your blog! More than the contrast between the Kims and the Parks, the two poor families tearing each other down in the dark, dingy basement (they never take the fight to the upper levels of the house) is what stuck with me most after the film. I didn't think about it in such an extensive way, but I was surprised when I read article after article and not a single writer discussed this particular conflict between the Ohs and the Kims. Something was always missing, and I felt like I'd focused on the wrong part of the movie when all of the reviews lauded the brilliant setup between the Kims and Parks (which was good, but tbh not really THAT revolutionary of an idea). Thank you for writing this! I hope more people read this. f-licke-ri-nghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955954735768228271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-28367505681935249032020-03-05T11:15:30.976-05:002020-03-05T11:15:30.976-05:00Ooo, I've been waiting for this. I have to adm...Ooo, I've been waiting for this. I have to admit, I was a history major at Columbia until I got the syllabus for my second semester and saw I'd be spending four months on The Marxist Interpretation of the French Revolution and I dropped out rather than become an understudy to a putrid economic theory that had rotted out the guts of the 20th century. Soooooo, capitalist critiques are not my strong point. <br /><br />But here goes: when I saw Parasite last Fall, I thought the Oh family cluttered up the narrative. When the action went into the Park family's basement, at first I thought Mun-gwang had a mentally disabled son down there. It took me a while to understand that it was a husband in hiding, and then the Ohs got control of the Kims and, in a plot twist, the Kims devolved into killers, and everything became farce. <br /><br />If, in the end, the Kims end up in the same place not by a ridiculous bloodbath in the Park's backyard but simply betrayed by their own failed dreams in a system that crushes the poorer humans whose lives have no margin for error, the story would have been more ambiguous and poignant. OK, it's not for me to re-write the thing, but the Ohs ruined a good movie. <br /><br />However I knew I'd read something original here at AAK and you have redeemed Mun-gwang and Geun-sae for me, in that you present them as pivotal to the class warfare going on. So, Dong-ik is a stand-in for Donald Trump and all right-wing con men, and Geun-sae explains why poor people revere them. Ew. (You're right. I'm much, much happier not thinking about the Geun-saes of America.)<br /><br />BTW, someone told me that he heard an interview with Bong Joon-ho who said that he added the Ohs in after the script had been written in order to emphasize the desperation of the Kims so, yeah, that could be why they felt like an afterthought to me. <br /><br />And now we've lost Elizabeth Warren. On second thought, maybe it WILL all end in a bloodbath.<br /><br />Vivian Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12198077488226047493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-42395322917287401142020-03-05T03:59:33.602-05:002020-03-05T03:59:33.602-05:00"Geun-sae has no one above himself, there'..."Geun-sae has no one above himself, there's no basement under his." I wanted to say, "under himself" of course...Antonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16290694530006711516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36405856.post-74449830805588297362020-03-05T03:41:27.687-05:002020-03-05T03:41:27.687-05:00Thanks for this great article about this great mov...Thanks for this great article about this great movie and Geun-sae, undoubtedly the character that made the strongest/strangest impression on me (with his wife) when I watched this incredible movie.<br />Having saw some of Bong Joon-ho's previous work, like "The Host", I was kind of expecting a character like him to show up somewhat (Though of course I wasn't expecting that it would come out like it did). While watching Parasite, I though that it could not be just about the Kim and the Park, something was missing. It wasn't "Bong Joon-ho" enough with just that. This guy is such a genious.<br />As you beautifully exposed, the Oh family bring much more to the whole plot.<br /><br />Reading your article, I though of another scene at the begenning who kind of set the tone for the whole thing : when the Kim have to deliver the pizza boxes. If I recall correctly, the owner of the pizzeria doesn't seems to be rich at all, but she run a business, she's one step above the Kim. She doesn't seems to show any solidarity toward them, all the contrary, she take pride to show that she's above. And already, she blames them for their smell...<br /><br />After all, you don't need to be at the top of the stairs to be a shark, you just need to have someone under, someone to look at from above.<br />Geun-sae has no one above himself, there's no basement under his.Antonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16290694530006711516noreply@blogger.com