Parasite broke a number of financial records as well, including the highest foreign film opening weekend of all time for the UK box office, and a number of records with the Indie Box Office. It wasn’t just awards records that Parasite broke in 2019. The metaphorical themes are presented in as literal a way as possible with the act of this stabbing. The Kim family is destroyed Ki-jung is killed, Ki-woo is left brain-damaged, and Ki-taek is forced into hiding after he snaps and acts out a classism-driven murder in the chaos of the birthday party. Blood is shed and deaths are cast at the birthday party of the Park family’s youngest child.Īll three families at play are damaged by this explosive act of violence. Outside of the sub-basement, violence erupts, and the prophetic scholar’s stone becomes an instrument of violence.

The film’s social commentary on class is at its strongest in this depiction of the lower classes fighting against each other rather than against the 1% who truly hold more accountability. Both parties have dark secrets, and both threaten to expose the other to the Park family, who remain above all the drama, currently unaware. Power shifts from Moon-gwang and her incognito husband to the Kim family as both lower-class families fight for leverage over each other.

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