"Parasite" not only won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, but also won the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film in one fell swoop. Film. It tells the life story of two families, which is full of tension, comedy, and profound meaning (spoilers be warned).
There is a huge wealth gap between the two families in the film. One lives in a villa with a large courtyard, while the other can only live in a semi-basement. Whenever there is heavy rain, the sewage system in the slums is overwhelmed, and sewage and dirt flow underground. In the eyes of the rich, the poor are like cockroaches, disgusting and fleeing at the sight of light.
One day, the male protagonist from a poor family got the opportunity to work as an English tutor in a wealthy family. He concealed his academic qualifications and packaged himself as a talented college student, winning the trust of the wealthy mother and daughter. And the beginning of a lie is the prelude to countless lies. Perhaps because he yearned too much for the life of the rich, the male protagonist came up with a plan to ask his family members to "dress up" one by one, pretending not to know each other, and win the trust of the employer, and come here to work in high-paying jobs.
The unemployed homeless sister became an art student and became an art teacher for the rich man’s young son; the mother who used to practice boxing became a senior housekeeper, specializing in providing housekeeping services to the rich; and even the pizza boxes were stacked The bad father turns into a high-end driver and drives for the male owner of the villa.
In the process of people sneaking in, there are many traps and schemes. The more you get, the more ambitious you become. Finally, on a stormy night, their desires reached the extreme, and they accidentally exposed their flaws and were exposed. Deception and honesty, disguise and truth, the male protagonist and his family have been trapped in a whirlpool of lies and cannot escape.
The last part of the film is also the climax. The mentally broken murderer took a sharp knife and broke into the crowd filled with the smell of cakes and flowers, killing them wantonly. Anger, despair, struggle, the strings are pulled the tightest, and all prosperity falls at the highest climax, just like the tide recedes, leaving nothing on the beach.
"Parasite" deserves the award for Best Original Screenplay. The story is extremely dramatic and contrasts sharply. The hero's family is like parasites, living on an impossible dream. And the illusion cannot last forever. The outcome of the parasite is either to fight back or to be completely destroyed.