Their home is cluttered socks hanging from the ceiling to dry and dishes and papers amassing wherever there’s a free place. Their only view to the outside world is a basement window, sitting at foot level. The Kim family live in a home that’s one step away from being subterranean.
And so it goes, with the Kim family slowly wedging themselves into the Park family, like the bugs that wormed their way into the Kim household.īong Joon Ho uses set design to further examine his characters. That “professional” is, of course, his artistic sister, who has developed her own backstory about being Jessica from Chicago.
LITTLE SQUIRMY PARASITE GAME PROFESSIONAL
Yeon-kyo wants to nurture her son’s dubious talents and wouldn’t you know it, Ki-woo knows just the person: a professional art therapist. Da-hye has an instant attraction to Ki-woo, who the family has decided should be called “Kevin.” Da-hye’s brother, meanwhile, is an “American Indian”-obsessed painter whose self-portraits Ki-woo mistakes for a chimpanzee. As Ki-woo inserts himself in the Park family, he sees them as overwhelmingly nice and warm, if a bit odd. So when the opportunity arises for Ki-woo to tutor Da-hye, of the fabulously rich Park family, he immediately jumps at the opportunity. The Kim family has been forced to become grifters, grabbing a meal and a deal wherever they can.
It’s free extermination after all, he reasons, as they cough while inhaling the toxic fumes. And when the city exterminator comes by, spraying pesticides through the streets, Ki-taek tells his family to leave the windows open. That night, we learn of the third level of parasites in the world Bong has created, as Ki-taek flicks a stink bug off the table with callous disregard no matter your station in life, there’s someone or something worse off. They barely get by, doing odd jobs like folding pizza boxes and keeping in touch with the outside world through WhattsApp. Their phones have been shut off and the cafe they’ve been siphoning free Wi-Fi from has just changed its password. In a brisk, economic bit of storytelling, Bong Joon Ho quickly establishes how poor their family is. The Kim family is comprised of the father Ki-taek (Kang-ho Song), his wife Chung-sook (Hye-jin Jang) and their two kids Ki-woo (Woo-sik Choi) and Ki-jung (So-dam Park). The only thing separating them is their social station. Like the Parks, they are a warm family unit. On the other side of town lives the Kim family.
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