Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) Movie • Page 6

right there with you

 

This easily tops Lighthouse for me.

 

Agreed. I really liked the lighthouse but this is by far the best film I've seen all year/in a while. Everything about this is just so damn good.

 

I saw this on Saturday and I cannot stop thinking about it. I want to write so many essays on my thoughts and feelings but I can't put together my thoughts in any coherent thread. This absolutely needs multiple viewings. So far, for me, it's the best film of the year and I'm already confident that this falls in my top 10 (5???) of all time.

 

Welp. This was amazing

 

this'll make me sound like the biggest blowhard ever but both times i watched i had a moment where i thought to myself something to the effect of "holy fuck i'm watching a masterpiece"

 

I really want to see this again with someone who has not seen it yet

 

second time i saw this i apparently was one of the few in the audience who was doing a rewatch. in fact, most of them didn't even know there was gonna be a q&a afterward

 

Hilarious. When Kim Ki-taek stabs Mr. Park, I got flashbacks to the stupid “kill the rich” sign in Joker and was quickly reminded of how much higher a caliber this film was. Not that they should be compared but it made me laugh.

 

I feel like the term “roller coaster” is so cliche but god damn, I’m not sure how else to describe it. This film is hilarious, it’s tense, it’s depressing, it’s horrifying...the whole 2nd act feels like a heist movie. But despite all this it never feels tonally inconsistent and nothing that happens feels undeserved. It’s very much a journey

 

That shot of the "ghost" in the flashback may well be the most unsettling thing I've seen in a long time

 

I liked the lighthouse a lot, but I don’t think it’s in the same stratosphere as this IMO

 

Respect!!!!!

 

careful

My enjoyment for this is definitely more immediate but The Lighthouse is also something to behold and I love them for completely different reasons. They are both masterstrokes imo, just not at all alike

 

I like this a lot more than the Lighthouse and that’s not a knock on the Lighthouse

 

I just like the Lighthouse as top 5 of the year whereas Parasite is top 5 of the decade

 

I think The Lighthouse is probably just as good, this just has more immediate entertainment value

 

as thrillers, they're both incredible rides and such a joy to watch

as actual movies with bigger ideas and themes, parasite is in another dimension

but you can like both especially in a shitty year like this for movies

 

yeah let's not turn this into a place to argue which film you liked better. they're both great

 

I haven't seen either and have no opinion one way or another!

 

I'm dying to see The Lighthouse.

 

I don't think it's been a terrible year for movies. Just kind of mediocre.

 

There have been a few I’ve missed out on so my viewing is far from complete, but this year features new Bong Joon Ho, Tarantino, Aster, Eggers, Denis, Sodebergh, Scorsese, Baumbach, Peele, Korine, Jarmusch, Malick, Haynes, Gerwig, Cretton, Miike, Gray, and of course Tom Hooper’s opus still to come.

 

I'm curious to see the role this film will play in opening more people up to "foreign" language films. It seems to have already hit more screens than most non-English films ever see in the States. It seems in a strong position to be a foundational work for a new wave of cinephiles (I don't like this word but it's the easiest way to convey "people who are mostly interested in film outside the dominant systems" without sounding like a complete piece of shit).