Sadistic comedy and brilliant tragedy all bundled up into the best film of 2019.

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2020)

There I said it---It's the best film of the year for this reviewer, and it's the best film Bong Jong-ho has made to date.
But to be fair, I've yet to see "The Irishman," "1917," and "A Hidden Life," so my opinion could change. Though, I can't see that being likely.
The originalness of "Parasite" is what sets it apart. "Parasite," twists and turns to darker and darker places while still maintaining a comedic tone. There's ingenious visual cinematography and storytelling when it portrays the division of class between the wealthy and poor.
Class inequality is a theme director Bong Joon-ho frequently uses. You observe it in his other films, "Snowpiercer," "Okja," and even in the first film I ever saw of his back in 2006 with Joon-ho's horror film, "The Host." Which also starred Kang-ho Song who plays, Kevin's father in "Parasite." He's hilariously witty in both films.
"Parasite" set in South Korea, is about a young man from an impoverished family, the Kims, who winds up with a job to tutor a high school girl from an extremely affluent family, the Parks. He changes his name from Kim Ki-woo to Kevin to impersonate an English tutor. He soon realizes this could be a way to get his whole family employment under the Parks, and the family makes it their plan to do-so.
The film shined when it cinematically showed the differences between class equality among these two very different families. When we see the wealthy Park family, the house is pristinely clean. A complete contrast to the Kim family apartment, which is a basement apartment littered with trash and infested by stink bugs, in what looks to be one of the poorest sections of the city.
If you like dark comedies, then you're sure to enjoy "Parasite." I've witnessed people who don't like foreign films because of subtitle-hatred still relish this film.
You won't see another movie like "Parasite," perhaps ever. Well done, Bong Joon-ho.