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Since his training at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the 2019 Palme d’Or, the South Korean film Parasite has not stopped getting accolades. And of course, if this film that transits between drama and comedy masterfully portrays the life of a family that survives in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Seoul.
Its director is the acclaimed filmmaker Bong joon-ho (the same as Memories of murder), who questioned the enormous problems generated by neoliberal systems. Everything, to show with black humor, the radically different conditions in which two social classes live in the same city.
The premiere in Chilean theaters was on February 6 of this year, but if you did not manage to see it at that time, now you can do it at home. Yes because Netflix announced that from this Tuesday, September 1 will be incorporated into your streaming catalog. You can see all the premieres of the month here.
Everything, so you don’t miss this film that was awarded at the Oscars as Best International Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best film.
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This way you will be able to meet the four members of the Kim family who are dedicated to assembling pizza boxes for a local that delivers at home. Suddenly the son of the clan, Dong-ik (Lee Sung-kyun), receives a visit from a friend, who offers him the position of English teacher for the wealthy Park couple.
This opportunity allows all Kim – Patriarch Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), his wife Chung-sook (Jang hye-jin) and his sister Ki-jung (So-dam park) – start working posing as recognized professionals. That, until they face a revelation that will generate a major break.
Quite suspenseful, Bong Joon-ho “manages to accurately draw the contrasts between the representatives of two social classes, present in both South Korea and Chile. Where the protagonists are both victimizers and victims of a polarized society, “said the critic at the time.
More films by director Bong Joon-ho
This isn’t the only movie director Bong Joon-ho has on Netflix. In fact, in the streaming service you can find two more tapes of this renowned Korean filmmaker.
One of them is Okay (2017), a film that stands out for having Joon-ho as director and for being the film he made a year before Parasite. In this you will meet a girl who starts a risky trip to New York to rescue her best friend, a super pig named Okja, from a multinational corporation that seeks to turn her into food.
Don’t miss the feature film either The Guest (2006), which tells the story of a monster who kidnaps the daughter of a man who does everything to save her. The movie fuses monsters and terror, and it takes the fear of what would happen if you lost a loved one to the extreme.
Check out in this list all the Korean movies that can be found on Netflix.
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