Geekery: Bong Joon Hoo’s ‘Parasite’ Gets a Wide Release – First Trailer
The Korean director’s latest that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year is finally getting a wide release this fall – just in time for Oscar consideration.
Bong Joon Hoo is most known in the west for Snowpiercer, The Host, and Okja. His movies take on subjects like class, consumerism, and humanity’s impact on the environment with twists and turns; and wicked sense of black humor. His latest thriller is no different – tackling economic disparity with a story of two families colliding.
Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.
Parasite hits theaters October 11.
