"Parasite" is a drama film, which has a similar flavor to a literary film that exposes reality.

This kind of movie, if you want to explode at the box office, it is unrealistic to compare it with a blockbuster with a strong commercial flavor like "The Dark Knight".

But even so, the box office of Daewoo reached 30 million on the first day of its release.

It's not a holiday yet.

When the weekend came, the box office quadruple.

Subsequently, in the score of 9.0 for 100,000 people, the box office was completely detonated.

Some commercial blockbusters in the same period wailed, avoiding "The Dark Knight" and "Love Through Time and Space", but they couldn't avoid feature films like "Parasite".

"Why are literary films so popular?"

"Hell knows!"

"Well, I won the award, the screenwriter is still the king of Pingyang. ”

"Damn, that's it!"

"King Pingyang is too ruthless, literary films can still be like this. ”

"King Pingyang is just a screenwriter, why are his movies a big hit. ”

"It's wicked!"

"Haha, it shows that the people who hacked him are actually mostly water armies. There are many, many people who like him. ”

After "Parasite" was released in the United States, Nolan took time to watch the movie.

After reading it, sitting in the mall café, his mood couldn't calm down for a long time.

In this movie, he saw something more.

It tells the story of a low-level family who clings to a wealthy family, and finally has their dreams shattered.

The protagonist is a family of four, trying everything to work for a wealthy family, with a son as an English teacher, a daughter as an art teacher, a father as a driver, and a mother as a housekeeper.

In order to sneak into this mansion and earn a little more salary, they did everything they could, and resorted to all kinds of "despicable" means - forging a college degree, a family of four pretending not to know each other, framing the former driver with underwear, and framing the former nanny with a peach, forcing them to lose their jobs, and taking advantage of the situation to work for the owner of the mansion.

Nor are they the average poor.

My son's English level is much higher than that of ordinary college students.

The daughter is artistically gifted, knowledgeable, eloquent, and proficient in forging documents.

My mother is a good cook, and she is also a hammer thrower, so she has infinite strength.

My father was a skilled "veteran driver" who was able to take passengers to all parts of Korea without using a map to navigate.

However, no matter how capable they are, well-behaved, pretending to be well-educated, and not of low origin......

The rich family can easily smell the "smell" on their bodies, which is the "smell in the subway".

What does the subway smell like?

It's the smell of all kinds of wage earners, the smell of cheap laundry detergent, the smell of sweat in the hot season, the smell of muddy water on everyone's shoes after the rain, the smell of dust on the hands of manual laborers, and the musty smell of living in basements where no day shines for a long time.

Ordinary people can't smell what the "smell of the subway" is.

However, the man in the movie can smell it, and the little boy in their family can smell it, and he says, "They smell the same thing, they smell the same thing, they smell the same thing." ”

The protagonist's family of four, relying on "unscrupulous means" and excellent skills, deceived the trust of the owner of the mansion, drove away the original housekeeper and driver, successfully got every job, and became the "parasite" of this rich family.

They also lamented that the host couple was very kind.

"They are so rich and so kind......"

"It's because they're rich that they're kind!"

"Money irons everything out......."

On the surface, there is a little truth, the rich live a superior life, have been well protected since childhood, receive a good education, have a high level of knowledge and morality, and to put it bluntly, they are "decent people".

Why are there so many "animal protectionists" and "environmentalists" in developed countries?

That's because their ancestors completed primitive accumulation through war, plunder, and violence.

Therefore, their descendants can be decent people, can learn music, poetry, and art, and become a seemingly elegant "superior person".

With the advantage of huge wealth, they don't need to fight for anything or grab anything, so they seem to be very "kind".

And the poor, if they live in a world where resources are scarce and unfair, and they have to do their best to survive, where can he take care of any "decency"?

Every moment, they are competing with others for the resources of survival.

Therefore, among them, there will inevitably be some immoral things, the factory workers will be lazy, and the small vendors in the vegetable market will be short of two pounds......

But this "immorality" is not inherently "immoral", but forced by the situation.

There is a good saying: "When you criticize him, the first thing to think about is that he doesn't have your conditions." ”

When the host family goes out camping, the protagonist's family shows their greedy side, they occupy the magpie's nest, eat and drink in the host's house, bathe in the hostess's bathtub, and look through the little girl's diary......

At this time, they discovered another secret, the housekeeper who was designed by them to drive away, actually hid her husband, a failed entrepreneur, in the basement of the mansion all the year round, and they were also a pair of "parasites".

In the dramatic conflict, two poor families fight for their own right to live, but the host family returns unexpectedly, and in desperation, the male protagonist's mother kicks the housekeeper down the basement, and the woman is seriously injured in the brain and dies that night.

The protagonist's family braves the torrential rain and flees back to their home, which has flooded the basement of the mountain.

In the end, it is a tragedy that the poor man hiding in the basement, avenging his wife, kills the male protagonist's sister.

And he was stabbed to death by the hero's brave mother with an iron branch of barbecue, and the hero's father, when the rich man showed a disgusted expression in the face of the "smell of the poor", stabbed this "kind rich man" to death......

This movie, it is difficult to criticize, who is right and who is wrong, who is the good guy and who is the bad guy.

It can only be said that the two sides cannot understand each other at all.

When the basement of the male protagonist's family was soaked in sewage and the whole family was cornered like cockroaches, the little owner of the mansion was still playing in a tent on the lawn in the rainstorm.

When the male protagonist's family was buying clothes at the stall, the hostess of the mansion was circling in her beautiful cloakroom.

While the protagonist's family is still thinking about the life and death of the poor couple in the basement, the hostess is thinking about how to throw a birthday party for her son.

This rich couple, although shrewd and a bit hypocritical, is really not a bad person.

They just care more about their own feelings and ignore the feelings of the "basement people".

It's not malice, it's ignorance, and they can't be blamed.

After all, they have lived in the sun all their lives, have nannies, have servants, don't have to do housework themselves, don't get anxious about three meals a day, haven't lived in a basement, haven't rubbed wifi, haven't squeezed the subway, haven't spent a night on a toilet with feces, they can't and don't need to understand what it's like.

There is a saying that "one day the difference between the rich and the poor will be greater than that between people and dogs".

Is it true that the protagonist's family, including the man who is "parasitized" in the basement, is there really nothing to be desired?

The talent shown by the male protagonist's sister is not something that ordinary rich ladies can achieve, if she can also receive a good education, she can also be cared for like a princess, who is she worse than?

The horrible man in the basement, with records and law books on his desk, was clearly a well-educated, knowledgeable and cultivated man.

Just went bankrupt once, and after becoming poor, he became a "parasite" who did not see the light of day, and could only turn over in his dreams.

The story of the film itself is good, but it is not important, the important thing is the word "parasite".

These three words are poignant, because in sociological context, they can be reminiscent of an age-old topic -- do the rich feed the poor, or do the poor feed the rich? Do the capitalists feed the workers, or do the workers feed the capitalists? Who is the "parasite"?

A scholar put forward a viewpoint, saying: "It is not the capitalists who exploit the workers, but the workers who exploit the capitalists!" Because after capital is invested in enterprises, it cannot flow at will, but the workers are free, they can come and go as they want, they can desert when they go to work, they can make phone calls, and they can seek their own personal interests...... So, it is the workers who exploit the capitalists. ”

Fallacies that sound so reasonable.

No wonder the reputation of modern liberal arts intellectuals has been ruined, it turns out that there are more such people, and he forgot - only those who master the means of production have a real right to speak!

The laborers are always in a disadvantaged position, because the means of production are appropriated by the capitalists, and the laborers can only sell their labor power in exchange for payment, and the fruits of their labor are far higher than the wages they receive.

The worker appears to be a free man, but under the pressure of survival, he cannot leave the capitalists and the means of production to earn a living independently.

No matter how strong the ability of the laborers is, they only master a single production skill, and it is impossible to monopolize a certain field, and their substitutability is too strong, which leads to their very low value.

Therefore, they simply do not have the freedom to come and go as they want.

For example, the father of the male protagonist in the movie "Parasite" has superb driving skills, but can he "exploit" his employer just by relying on this?

Goryeo is so big, it's not easy to find an old driver?

Rich people want to change people, and they can change them at any time.

The driver has a ghost's "freedom of choice", and he is thankful that he can keep a job.

As the father said, "In Goryeo, 500 college students grabbed a security position!"

Only the freedom to stink in the basement!

If you think about it, who feeds whom? Who is the parasite?

Yes, the owner of the mansion is wealthy, successful, and kind, but their career is built on the labor of the company's employees.

Their happy family life is based on the meticulous service of tutors, drivers, nannies, and housekeepers.

Without them, their family would not be able to cook, they would not be able to do laundry, and they would not have the skills and talents to educate their children.

The poor man took a meager salary, carefully and tried his best to serve this family, although he took advantage, although he cheated and cheated, although he deliberately deceived, but he served very well, right?

The smell in the subway is not good, but if there is no smell in the subway, where can there be a modern country?

Houses don't grow out of the ground when the developer magically, pizza doesn't grow out of a pizzeria, electric lights don't naturally turn on, gasoline doesn't come out of itself, beautiful dresses don't hang in the cloakroom, the Internet doesn't have existed since ancient times, cakes, rice, beef, fish, noodles, don't just open the kitchen door and suddenly appear.

These things need to be done by millions of poor people.

Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders.

Ten fingers do not stick to the mud, and the building is craggy.

In reality, the vast majority of capitalists, especially financial capitalists, do not create value, but only transfer value.

They do not liberate and develop the productive forces, but use the productive forces to exploit more people and accumulate more wealth for themselves.

Who lives on whom?

Who are the parasites?

The power of capital is great, but it can't create food, energy and housing out of nothing, they need the power of people, the power of many, many people.

When it needs the majority, the majority of the people will take a meager salary to serve it and create wealth and civilization, but this wealth and civilization do not belong to the majority, but to the few who control capital.

It will not benefit the majority, so it will only expand wildly and multiply overproduction, and when it does not need the majority, it will throw off its baggage and follow the minority, leaving the majority unemployed and impoverished.

This is the chronic disease of capital, which only pursues value-added and does not care about social responsibility, and between capitalists and capitalists, there is either vicious competition or monopoly of the market.

The extreme pursuit of "freedom" in society and culture has led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and the gap between the two sides is widening.

The poor, on the other hand, fall into poverty, violence and crime more quickly due to lack of education, lack of access to the ladder and lack of security.

Those who have lost their labor force have become outcasts of society.

"Parasite" is not only about one province and one country, but also about the United States, Britain, Franks and other countries.

Many people are full of praise for "Parasite", believing that filming such a heavy and gloomy social topic can trigger people's thinking about society.

However, Nolan shook his head, directors, screenwriters, and journalists from all over the world have worked hard and have been trying to explore justice, fairness, and humanity.

But it didn't work, the country was still in the hands of the chaebols.

In some countries, a large conglomerate, is 20% of the country's GDP.

The film and television industry can make the greatness of the upper class, and it can also make movies like "Parasite", but so what, can it change this world ruled by chaebol capital?

These things are nothing more than a placebo for working people.

Sadness to sadness, anger to anger, wipe your tears, pour a few glasses of bad sake, and finally have to go back to the basement to live, and tomorrow you have to continue to move bricks.

The film themes in the global film and television industry seem to have no taboos, but in fact, they are just an outlet created by chaebols and politicians for the poor and civilians.

Directors and screenwriters can expose the darkness and do the right thing for heaven in literary and artistic works, and return to reality, the old men are still high, and the poor can't hurt them a bit.

The movie "Parasite" says a lot, but in fact it doesn't say anything, because you can't use the "class analysis method", you can't face the ultimate problem, you can only use the helplessness of "human nature" to prevaricate the past.

"Parasite" does not belittle the poor, although the poor in the movie eventually become the bad guy who kills, but it still tells the audience that every poor person living in the dark yearns for the sun and the light.

But the movie doesn't ask, "Why are they so poor, why are they living in the dark?"

He didn't ask, "Who is the root cause of all this?" Who is the enemy who hinders the poor from pursuing a better life, and how can we change all this?"

So, it can be released and shine in various countries.

Nolan personally likes this kind of movie, with depth, information, and content.

Even if he makes science fiction movies, he likes to insert some private goods into dreamy scenes, or things that popcorn movies don't have, such as knowledge points and ideas.

He thinks that making a movie should make a wife-like feeling, not a lady's kind of feeling.

In fact, some people feel that watching a popcorn movie is like going to a prostitute.

Watching Nolan's movies, I have the feeling of getting along with my wife.

"Wang, in fact, you can continue to follow the path of connotation, scripts and movies like "Parasite" have a market and box office when they are made, and they are well received. Nolan couldn't help but call Wang Zi'an.

"Nolan, you know what? It's midnight on my side, give you a minute to coax me, I'm very angry when I wake up. Wang Zi'an's angry voice came from the phone.

Nolan was stunned for a moment, and then he was ashamed.

People from two worlds are really painful to get along.

He forgot that Wang Zi'an had returned to China and was not in the United States now.

After all, Wang Zian is from Daewoo, and the movie has been filmed, and some of the special effects shots are handed over to the special effects team on Daewoo's side, so he may not return to Hollywood for a long time.

"Ahem, I'll do my best to make your second movie, and I will never be distracted and perfunctory. Nolan hurriedly assured Wang Zi'an.

"This is what was said before, it doesn't count. Wang Zi'an didn't accept it.

"If there's a third part, I'll help you find a director?" Nolan said tentatively.

"If there is a third part, then the first and second parts will definitely be successful, will you still need to help me find it when the time comes?" Wang Zi'an asked.

Nolan thought for a moment, nodded, and said the same.

Wang Zi'an's ten-year plan depends on the success of the first and second films.

If it doesn't work out, there won't be that universe behind it.

If it is successful, Wang Zi'an really doesn't need Nolan to help find someone to find a director, Wang Zi'an can find it himself, and someone even sends it to the door.

"Wang, you're stumped me, so I'll make another movie for you?" Nolan said.

"Okay, if we talk about it again, I'll be finished when my girlfriend wakes up, you know, a man with a wife is most afraid of his wife saying that he wants it...... Then make me another movie, the script will definitely satisfy you, not a popcorn movie, the genre you like. After speaking, Wang Zi'an hung up the phone.

Nolan held his phone and giggled.

I didn't expect it to be okay to make the king angry, and I got the benefits.

Directing the second film of the Prince Ann universe, Nolan is returning the favor.

This type of movie, Nolan is really not cold.

But he understands Wang Zi'an, and after repaying the favor, Wang Zi'an will feel that he owes a favor again, and he will definitely reciprocate.

No, isn't it coming now?

Nolan Meizizi is dreaming, with Wang Zi'an's script, plus his participation in the leading role and investment, this scene is very cool.

Nolan has a feeling that his life has been arranged, or the kind he likes, which is wonderful.

Don't worry too much, there are people to help deal with trivial and troublesome things, and you can just take care of the mirror.

However, a few days later, Nolan was a little depressed when he contacted Wang Zi'an again.

Wang Zian said that he only gave the script and would not participate.

Nolan was anxious, he really wanted to cooperate with Wang Zi'an again.

In the second movie of the Wang Zi'an universe directed by him, Wang Zi'an did not participate.

To say that he has participated, Wang Zi'an also participated in the easter egg shooting at the end of the film, a few seconds of footage.

Does that count as cooperation?

Not at all.

What's more, the Prince An Universe series of movies, according to Nolan's speculation, is a purely commercial movie with a popcorn plot.

Such a movie, seriously, is just like Xiao Baiwen.

Although it doesn't have much depth, it has a wider audience.

As long as it is filmed well, it will definitely be easier to get a high box office than an in-depth movie.

If you want to become a successful commercial film director, you have to ignore those old whites who have no depth in spraying movies.

This kind of people are willing to pay to watch Lao Bai movies, but they are not the main body and mainstream of the fan group.

"Wang, are you not confident in your script, so you don't plan to participate?" Nolan asked Wang Zi'an, he hadn't gotten the script Wang Zi'an said, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

He prefers to believe that it is a good script, but he wants to provoke Wang Zian to participate.

"Brother Nolan, you know me, and if it's not a good script, I won't give it to you. So, if the audience doesn't like it at that time, it's not my fault, it's the director's problem. "The prince will return the favor to the other.

"Wang, you underestimate me too much, I'm Nolan, a director who claims to never make bad movies, you wait and see. Nolan said angrily.

"Okay, I'll wait. After speaking, Wang Zi'an was about to hang up the phone.

Nolan hurriedly said, "Wang, have you started writing the script?"

"Not yet, but soon, when you finish filming, the script will be sent to you later. Wang Zi'an said.

Nolan was in a good mood, the second movie of the Prince An universe he helped to shoot is about to be completed, and there is still half a month to go.

The film production process is very mature, with money and connections like Nolan, film production is like a factory assembly line.

It's just that Wang Zi'an is a little apprehensive and heartache is that because he is really short of money, the biggest investor in the second film of this universe series is not him, nor Firefly City, but other companies.

But there is no way, the production cost of 150 million US dollars, Wang Zian can't raise it even if he sells himself.

He sold it to the four daughters of Pingxiang Liuying and the others before, and with some investment, he barely managed to scrape together the production funds for the first movie.

The second part, there is really nothing that can be done.

If it weren't for the fact that some of the previous investment income had arrived one after another, he wouldn't even have the money to participate in part of the investment in the second part.

Unless the shooting is postponed.

But Wang Zi'an thinks that it is the king to earn money together.

Again, time is money.

Wait for the first part to be released to see the box office situation before making plans for the second part, you have to wait a year or two later.

He couldn't wait.