beautiful, painful, strange, and wonderfully shot

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2020)

You really can't ask for more from a movie. Bong Joon Ho tackles inequality with a wonderfully strange concept that unfurls like an onion, becoming stranger and more duplicitous as you reach the core of his ideas--never polemical--not that this reviewer is troubled by polemics--Parasite maintains tension with his usual spiking of lacerating humor. The weird core, the subbasement of the film, reveals itself with creeping vigor. Love.