Parasite: the Subterranean Subtext [This newsletter contains spoilers for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.] Parasite is a difficult film to talk about. It’s mercurial, slippery. Like all of Bong Joon-ho’s work, it refuses to be reduced into a single genre, a single category. Family drama, horror film, comedy, taut thriller, unsettling attraction and romance — all run through the core of the film like electric wires, crisscrossing, sparking, creating brilliant arcs of energy between the threads and ultimately galvanizing into a stunning miracle of a film.
The Poetics of Surprise: Parasite
The Poetics of Surprise: Parasite
The Poetics of Surprise: Parasite
Parasite: the Subterranean Subtext [This newsletter contains spoilers for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.] Parasite is a difficult film to talk about. It’s mercurial, slippery. Like all of Bong Joon-ho’s work, it refuses to be reduced into a single genre, a single category. Family drama, horror film, comedy, taut thriller, unsettling attraction and romance — all run through the core of the film like electric wires, crisscrossing, sparking, creating brilliant arcs of energy between the threads and ultimately galvanizing into a stunning miracle of a film.