Parasite

When you’ve been fully deprived of the finer things in life; how do you react once you finally get a taste of it? This movie is the embodiment of one of the biggest truths about human nature - that it’s simply never enough.  The Kims and the Parks living conditions are the stark contrast of social classing and is displayed accurately to countries like South Korea. The Kim family’s dire living conditions made for some great cohesion and togetherness when it came to the way that they operate; which was probably my favourite aspect of the film. Their craftiness and ability to work on the same wavelength quickly placed them in some great positions. But since those schemes saw no end, their continuous desperation to continue climbing out of the hole that they’re in (both literally and figuratively); makes their own undoing inevitable. I’ll be real though, with the lines that the Kims ended up crossing, it would be easy to sit there high and mighty just bashing them. What would be harder is to not assign all of the blame on them; as both families were victims in this story. The Parks were obviously victims with the events that unfolded in their home, while the Kims have been victims to social classing their entire lives. I think initially I would’ve preferred if the conclusion was a bit more harsh and unforgiving for the Kims, but the more I sat with it, the more I realised how bleak their reality actually is - and always has been.