Chapter 566: The Poor Get Poorer, the Rich Get Richer (Part I)
In this movie, Kim Tae-hee completely subverted her usual elegant, quiet, and intellectual image, and became a girl with many ghost ideas, a straightforward and rebellious personality, a smoker, and a very talented artist.
Sansan said that there is a devil living in everyone's heart.
Kim Tae-hee released the "devil" in his heart, and successfully and even perfectly completed the filming of his first play.
Of course, it wasn't her who gained the most.
She only won two Best Supporting Actress awards at many film festivals, which is not the most well-known of the two film festivals.
The biggest gain is the whole movie, then the director, screenwriter, actor and heroine.
For example, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival, one of the world's five major film festivals this year.
In addition, in another of the world's five major film festivals, the Academy Awards, the film also won the Best Director Award, the Best Original Screenplay Award, the Best International Film Award and other important awards.
The script has Wang Zi'an's name, but it's not the only one.
He didn't go to the scene, but the presence of the director, who is both a director and a screenwriter, did not hinder the selection of the judges.
When the movie was filmed, it was not in a hurry to be released, but it was taken for awards.
Even for many literary films, the public screening is not the top priority, but the award is.
The film and television industry cares a lot about awards and qualifications.
Directors who have won awards, and then filming, basically do not worry about no investment.
I haven't won an award, no matter how good the script is, the capital can't see it.
Just like in the online article, a good book that is not operated, the author has a relatively nourishing life at most, and it is impossible to get rich.
Doing a good job of all kinds of data, selling copyrights, and doing a good job of peripherals is not a dream.
Daewoo, the imperial capital.
Pingxiang apartment.
Yui Aragaki and Kim Tae-hee are cleaning the house, tying an apron around their waists and wrapping towels around their heads.
Wang Zi'an is not there, and the hygiene of the house is basically done by Kim Tae-hee, and the other daughters occasionally take a hand.
It was supposed to be made for the aunt of the housekeeper, but when the prince was there, he did it, and the aunt was used to it, and only dealt with the hygiene of the kitchen.
"I like to go to Binh Duong for a holiday, but I think the north is still suitable for a long stay. ”
"Why?"
Yui Aragaki and Kim Tae-hee chatted while working.
"Not to mention that there is no heating in the south in winter, and there is mold everywhere in the alternating seasons of winter and spring, which is very difficult. Aragaki said.
"Second sister, you don't seem to have spent the winter and spring seasons in Pingyang, right?" asked Kim Tae-hee.
"No, but Sansan said it. Aragaki said, "It's like the dampness of water oozing through the walls. ”
As she spoke, she also took out her mobile phone and showed Kim Tae-hee a photo that was sent to it by Wang Zian.
In the photo, mushrooms grow on a mop cloth.
That's one of those manifestations of mold to the extreme.
"So amazing?" Kim Tae-hee thought it was funny.
"Really?" Aragaki Yui smiled ill-willedly, "Men are all stinky, stinky to mold, so they grow mushrooms, and we girls don't." ”
Kim Tae-hee blushed and stopped talking.
Li Kexin was bringing water and asked, "What do you mean that a man grows mushrooms?" Why didn't I see Zi'anchang?"
Yui Aragaki hurriedly changed the subject: "Hurry up and work, go shopping after work, and watch Tae-hee's movie." ”
Three hours later.
In the cinema.
The movie in which Kim Tae-hee participated was released, because it was not a commercial blockbuster, and there were not many people.
At the beginning of the movie, it is a family of four in the basement of Quasi-Seoul.
Mom and Dad are unemployed, and older siblings are out of school.
This family of four is so poor that they can't even afford to pay for broadband, and Wifi has to rub off on other people's homes.
By chance, a senior gave his brother a chance: let him go to a rich man's house to do English tutoring for his well-behaved and obedient daughter.
Under the PS of his sister's wonderful rejuvenation, my brother, who failed the college entrance examination 4 times, took a fake diploma and successfully got an offer from a rich family.
After the elder brother arrived at the rich man's house, he smoothly integrated in, and also found that the rich man's wife had a huge anxiety: the younger son was quite active and disobedient, but he loved to draw.
Poor ** plan, rich conscience.
The elder brother fully grasped the weakness of the rich who liked to find help from acquaintances, and set up a bureau to package his sister as an expert in the art psychology department who returned from the imperial capital.
Not surprisingly, my sister managed to get a job - in charge of teaching the young son of a wealthy man to draw.
Seeing this, Yui Aragaki and several of them can realize that their brothers and sisters may continue this "trick" and find jobs for their parents.
A poor family of four will be like an octopus, parasitic little by little in the rich family.
Sure enough, the brother and sister teamed up to eliminate the driver of the rich family, allowing their father to succeed in taking the position.
In the end, the father and son cooperated to make a game, and asked the hostess to fire the most difficult housekeeper and replace the mother.
So far, this family of four has successfully parasitized into the rich man's home, and the "simple-minded" rich family of four has no idea.
In the entire first half, there is no waste shot, each plot is related, and the director uses various metaphorical shots and BGM climactic scenes to tell this "treacherous trick" with joy.
Wealthy families go camping en masse, and poor families "enjoy" the luxurious facilities of the villas, imagining that they are also living the life of a rich man.
During this time, the mother of the poor family told two big truths: 1) Once the rich family comes back, they will immediately hide like cockroaches, and 2) If I have this money, I will be very kind.
With the arrival of a pouring rain, everything begins to be turned upside down!
On that rainy night, the former butler with a disheveled hair said that he had something in the basement.
The poor mother, who had just finished a day of pleasure, grew a "conscience" and opened the door for her, which also laid the foundation for the subsequent collapse.
Sure enough, consistent with real life experience: there are really not many extreme contradictions between the rich and the poor, and it is often the poor who kill the poor.
With the appearance of the basement that represents the ravine of humanity, an ugly secret that has been buried for more than 4 years emerges: the husband of the former housekeeper lives below.
As soon as I saw my husband, the former housekeeper actually fed him with a pacifier bottle, which was very sharp.
I have to say that the director fully shows the essential difference between the poor and the rich through a lens that is both satirical and humorous.
Poor people eat as soon as they have money, noisy, lazy, can make do with everything, love to daydream, and are not afraid of dirty.
The rich are anxious, trust acquaintances in everything, afraid of dirty and hygienic, and think that money can solve everything.
In the movie, except for the daughter of the rich family of four, the other three are very indifferent and hypocritical to the poor.
The youngest son has been causing trouble and never communicates with the babysitter.
Even if he decrypted the Moore's code "help" sent by the former housekeeper's husband, he didn't tell anyone, and he had an attitude of not caring about himself.
When the rich wife paid the salary of the poor brother for the first time, she deliberately drew a few large coins from the envelope prepared in advance, and said very hypocritically: I wanted to pay him the same make-up fee as the senior, but in view of the rising prices, I decided to give him a little more.
Utter hypocrisy.
The rich city is obviously deeper, and on the surface he is disgusted with the panties that fell on the car, but when he has a bed affair with his wife on the sofa, he says that he wants her to wear them.
The more I hate it, the more I crave it.
In order to test the poor father's driving skills, the rich man deliberately poured a whole cup of coffee to see if it would spill when cornering, full of all kinds of caution.
The poor father twice asked the rich man, "So, you still love your wife very much", and the latter turned his face to express his displeasure.
In the eyes of the rich, he is just a driver who works for himself, and he is not qualified to discuss his love life with him at all.
Finally, in that ultimate climactic scene, the poor father completely sees through the rich man's deep-seated contempt for the poor class.
The poor man's daughter lay in a pool of blood and was about to die.
The rich man's son fainted.
The rich man had no intention of helping the poor man's daughter at all, and was bent on begging for car keys, covering his nose, and extremely disgusted by the sour smell of the poor.
This completely angered the poor father.
All this is because of the rich man, who provides for everyone, and these people are all parasitic on him.
And at that moment, the parasite is going to kill the mother!
It is an extremely profound sociological image: the child parasitizes on his parents until he reaches adulthood, who feeds the child with love for food and thoughts.
Almost every child grows up with an inevitable ultimate power struggle with their parents.
If the kid wins in the end, it's a comedy.
If the parent wins the child in the end, it will be a tragedy.
After watching the movie, Yui Aragaki thought.
What makes a good movie.
Someone once said: The most important thing for a movie is information, and a movie with 1 ton of information is a good movie.
"Parasite" is such a rare masterpiece worthy of fans and has 10 tons of explosive information.
In the whole movie, the most obscure and subtle imagery is: the stone of the poor man's son.
The stone is the cause of this story and the beginning of all tragedy.
Four functions: the stone of good luck, the door of desire, the treasure of calming the heart, and the source of trouble.
From the beginning, the senior brings good luck to this hopeless poor family: a strange stone that is said to bring wealth and luck, a job as a tutor for the daughter of a rich family.
When he went to the rich man's house, the son was very strangely carrying the stone in his bag.
It was like a kind of pressure from above, which accompanied him like a shadow, and he was overwhelmed. can only stagger forward like holding a stone, which represents a sense of security.
Because he single-handedly planned a "treacherous scheme" and did something wrong, he was not down-to-earth.
Only by carrying this stone on his back can he have peace of mind.
As he found a job in a rich family for his sister and parents, and won the heart of the rich daughter, he felt more and more that this stone was really too spiritual.
Thus, the door of desire was opened: the fantasy of a phoenix man turning over in the future, marrying Bai Fumei, and reaching the pinnacle of life.
This obsession has also become a superstition: stone = luck = money.
When the flood was heavy and the house was flooded, the son still found this strange stone for the first time.
In his heart, the importance of stone is comparable to that of a passbook and gold.
When he slept in the gymnasium, he kept clinging to this treasure of the town, for fear of losing it.
In the end, however, the stone turned out to be a source of trouble.
Originally, he wanted to go to the basement to see the situation and negotiate, but he didn't expect that because he was too nervous, he accidentally let go of the stone and smashed it in the face of the former housekeeper husband who survived like a cockroach.
The latter, thoroughly enraged, crawled into the sun, staged that heart-wrenching killing, and the poor son himself almost lost his life.
At the end of the film, the son finally let go of all the burdens and put this "strange stone" into the pool, and found that it was no different from other stones.
washed away the lead, it turned out that the previous thoughts were just his own demons.
Putting down the stone also means that the son has accepted his fate.
The poverty that went deep into the blood made him unable to leave the circle of inferior people after all, so he simply accepted the reality and became a new person.
Watching one "Parasite" is equivalent to watching 10 good movies.
People have five senses: the sight of the eyes, the hearing of the ears, the smell of the nose, the taste of the tongue, and the touch of the body.
As an audiovisual art, film has always been based on visual and auditory needs.
However, in this film, the director and screenwriter tried to introduce a feeling that needs to be made up in the audience's mind: smell.
Neuroscientists have discovered that scent has a poetic power: human beings have a deeper impression of smell than words and images, and can use smell to unlock and awaken long-forgotten emotional memories.
Clothing and language accents can distinguish classes within a human group.
And the director and screenwriter told the audience through "Parasite": dress and language can be disguised, but smell cannot.
The first time the poor family was almost recognized, it was because the young son of the rich family was extremely sensitive to smells, and he found that these four people had the same smell.
Then, the hostess opened the window of the car because she was disgusted with the smell of the poor father's overnight stay in the gymnasium.
Essentially, scents are invisible and intangible, permeating every corner of space.
The poor can wash away the smell of sweat from their clothes, but they can't wash away the musty smell of the basement that has penetrated deep into the blood.
Smell, like class, is present all the time, carrying a deep inferiority complex for the poor about their own identity.
When the rich man was in the most critical moment, he disliked the poor and smelled, which completely angered the poor man's father and was killed.
In Parasite, there is a much more hidden smell: sex.
The underwear in the back seat of the car aroused the love of the rich couple on the sofa.
The beginning of the love between the rich daughter and the tutor was the sweet kiss.
Even the desk of the former housekeeper husband, who looks like a cockroach and lives in the basement, is indispensable for the 002 ultra-thin condom.
In a masterpiece, the most shocking line is: "There is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty."
"Parasite" does not say such lines so bluntly, but uses the invisible smell on the movie screen to stimulate the audience's imagination.
This film, whether it is the story structure, scene scheduling, or metaphorical irony, is impeccable.
In terms of genre, it is difficult to define the film in terms of comedy, tragedy, suspense, noir, gore, and hi hit.
As early as before the release, during the broadcast of the competition unit, the European and American media who had watched this movie evaluated "Parasite" as a "tragicomedy" - the first half of the comedy, which made people laugh, and the second half of the tragedy, which made people hide their faces and think deeply.
"Tae-hee, congratulations, you deserve it!"
"Third sister, you have walked your own way. ”
Walking out of the theater, most of the girls hugged Kim Tae-hee when they were young.