carmen margarita’s review published on Letterboxd:
“if there’s one thing i hate, it’s people who cross the line.”
ROUND 3!!! black-and-white print @ lincoln center :,)
i don’t know if watching this in black-and-white necessarily enhanced my experience, but it was pretty cool nonetheless!! also luv thinking abt how bong joon-ho said one of the beautiful black-and-white films he admired was Frances Ha. this man truly keeps giving me by baumbach stan rights!!!!
i did notice some more details though. i don’t know if it was bc of the black-and-white, or bc this was my third rewatch. i think the b&w mostly accounted for the visual lil things i noticed (i.e. condoms in the basement), and my third rewatch accounted for the conceptual things i just noticed:
- dong-ik’s pet peeve: people who cross the line. the first (1st) of two (2) important pet peeves that lead up to the climax in this film. dong-ik repeatedly uses the phrase “crossing the line” while expressing how much he hates when ppl do it. moments before the climax, he doesn’t verbally say it, but you know he clearly thinks of it before telling ki-taek he shouldn’t be making any judgments since he’s being paid overtime
- ki-taek’s pet peeve: being called/compared to scum. the second (2nd) of two (2) important pet peeves that lead up to the climax in this film. ki-taek doesn’t express this pet peeve as much as dong-ik expressed his pet peeve, but his disgust is largely seen in two key moments. the first being when the family was drunk in the rich house together and chung-sook compared him to a cockroach, saying he acts like the ones in their house who scatter when you open the lights. hearing this, ki-taek nearly strangled her before erupting in a laughing fit. the second was when he was under the table and dong-ik compared his smell to an old radish. in the climax, again, nothing is verbally said, but when dong-ik pinches his nose, it is ki-taek’s last straw and his pet peeve defenses are activated.
- wealth rock: i didn’t actually realize this until i had a conversation w my friend a few weeks ago and she brought it up, but the weath rock is fake. i hadn’t noticed at all bc i don’t think about physics when i watch films, lol. but the wealth rock floated during the flood, meaning it was fake, which is why it didn’t kill ki-woo no matter how many times he was hit w it. this means that the wealth rock that was supposed to give the family wealth and fortune was artificial. which perfectly fits since the film was spent w them attaining artificial wealth and fortune.
anyway, that’s all i have for today. see y’all when Parasite wins best picture*** at the oscars next week!!!! bc it WILL!!!!!!!!!! (***although, on the 20% offchance that it doesn’t, pretend i actually wrote best international feature here instead, lmfao).
ps: also driver yoon is HOT. he is HOT. i always forget to talk abt it bc by the end of the film, j forget, but not this time!!!! he is HOT and it needed to be said!!!!!!!