![]() ![]() They’re stuck where they are-Ki-taek in a basement and Ki-woo only able to look at the house from a distance. The idea of wealth becomes both a fantasy and a prison for the Kim family, something they’ll chase but never achieve. Yes, they are “parasites” in a sense since they feed off the wealthy Park family, but the lavishness of the Parks’ wealth was never going to come to the Kims. The prison of wealth is what entraps the Kims in the first place. ![]() Granted, he could just turn himself in, but then he’d just be in another prison or he’d get the death penalty, so he may as well stay in the basement. The bleakness of the ending is that the only way to free Ki-taek is impossible. The movie ends with Ki-woo back in his own basement, just as imprisoned as his father but by economic circumstances rather than legal ones. We’re brought back into reality by the closing shots of the film, not of Ki-woo in the house freeing his father as part of a victorious montage. However, the scenes of Ki-woo buying the house follow are just in Ki-woo’s head. We then see a sequence where Ki-woo plans to make enough money to buy the house and free his father. He deciphers the code and discovers that Ki-taek is alive and now living in the basement. No one knows where Ki-taek went, but Ki-woo discovers that a light in the Parks’ house, where they have since moved out and another family has moved in, is flickering in Morse code. This all leads to a twisted resolution where Geun-se escapes the basement, gives a head injury to Ki-woo and kills Ki-jung, and is killed by Ki-taek, who also kills the Park family’s patriarch Park Dong-ik ( Sun-kyun Lee) after he recoils at Geun-se’s “poor man’s smell.” Ki-taek then flees the scene. The Parks don’t learn that the Kims are related, and everything seems to be going fine until they learn that Moon-gwang has been hiding her husband, Geun-se ( Myeong-hoon Park), in the Parks’ basement. Finally, the family gets rid of the Parks’ housekeeper, Moon-gwang ( Jeong-eun Lee), by making her seem sickly due to a peach allergy, which paves the way for the Kims’ mother, Chung-sook ( Hye-jin Jang), to get the gig. The Kim kids then frame the Parks’ driver for being a creep, which allows them to bring in their own father, Ki-taek ( Kang-ho Sang), for the job. Kim Ki-woo ( Woo-sik Choi) is legitimately a tutor for the Parks’ daughter Da-hye ( Jung Ziso), but he uses his standing to then usher in his sister Ki-jung ( So-dam Park), who poses as an art tutor for the Parks’ young son, Da-song ( Hyun-jun Jung). ![]() The film’s setup has a poor family, the Kims, infiltrating the lives of a wealthy family, the Parks, by becoming their new employees. Bong Joon-ho’s masterful film Parasite is a wicked and brutal satire about wealth disparity. ![]()
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