This film documents a sordid, failing nation . . .

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2020)

. . . even more deplorable than the USA under POTUS #45. The Wealth Disparity in South Korea is five or six times worse than America's, if you can imagine that! A tiny fraction of PARASITE "people" live like Corrupt Corporate Capitalist\Communist U.S. CEO's, but the vast majority of the remainder 99 Per Centers struggle for survival in roach-filled hovels deep underground, subject to life-threatening floods of raw sewage during the frequent year-round monsoon rains. It's an absolute ordeal for the ordinary normal average Koreans to keep a set of dry work clothes available in order to perform their low-paid menial jobs for the monied PARASITE Class wallowing in the conspicuous consumption of their ill-gotten Wealth. These work environments are flagrantly unsafe. When employees perish, the Miser Clique dismisses them like squashed bugs and hire replacement victims, complaining all the time about the Smell of Squalor to which they condemn their fellow man. PARASITE concludes just like another 2019 film--JOKER--with the onset of a long overdue Kill-the-Rich Movement.