Parasite

I went into this knowing how much praise it’s gotten and with extremely high expectations and it still managed to absolutely blow me away! The complete tonal shift halfway through is brilliant. It’s done in a way that makes sense and is a very realistic thing to happen, yet you would absolutely never expect. But at the same time it doesn’t just start to feel like a different movie, it all still connects extremely well. The theme with the rich and the poor is amazing. The symbolism of the rich literally living higher up and the poor living down below is brilliant. This is shown best when the storm comes in and the rich see it as a fun thing to watch that doesn’t really effect them, while the poor people have their lives and homes destroyed because of it.  At the same time though the film never paints the rich or poor in a bad light. We see the good sides of both which isn’t usually present in most films.  I love literally everything about this film, the story, the cinematography, the acting, the symbolism, the twists - it’s all brilliant.  I will absolutely be rewatching this soon because I feel like there’s so much more that I could have overlooked on the first viewing. So glad I went into this knowing absolutely nothing - 10/10!