Simple put, a truly great film. One to watch for anyone interested in the art of filmmaking.

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2020)

This is one of the rare times I whole heartedly agree with the Oscars. Since I saw this film yesterday, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, and it still have left a feeling in my gut and its visuals still lives in my mind. This is what movie making is all about, it's artistically beautiful, it's entertaining, it manage to capture your attention and is interesting and thought provoking. It makes you feel and think, simple put.
It reminded me a little bit of Get Out, even if very different movies also. I haven't seen that many Korean movies, 5 perhaps, and some of those are some of the best movies I've seen, so perhaps should check out some more Korean movies? And Kang-ho Song has been in 3 of them I've seen, so I must believe he's a very famous actor in South Korea, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, the cast of this movie is fantastic, a bunch of very likeable actors, that portrays the absurdity, darkness, drama and comedy of these characters and situations, in an excellent way. This movie is entertaining because of the absurdity of the situations, that these people come to be within, but also still so impactful, beacuse it at the same time it all feels so realistic in a crazy way. The film, with all it different events and character projection, flows perfectly and also with beautiful, just delicious cinematography and set design. Some visuals of this picture will be in my mind for a long time.
And, off course, the underlying meaning of the the film, as I think everybody knows by now, even those that haven't seen it yet, it's about class, poverty VS wealth. Something that has been going on in this world for thousands of years. As present today as it ever been, I suppose. The gap between rich and poor, it is very much a gap, that alienate the classes from each other. And what this film so intelligently does, is that it isn't hitting you over the nose with this message, it's just there, embedded in the story in an obvious but at the same time sublimely way. I think that's masterfully done by the director, beacuse I think that's a hard thing to acchive. To make such a strong comment on society and the human condition, without being obvious or preachy. Just beautiful actually.
There is sympathy and distaste to be found against the personalities in both familys, with distaste perhaps being a bit of a strong of a word, their human, their very very human, and you can understand both sides. Humans are selfish by nature and both sides just does what's in their best interest. No one sets out to be, or wants to be, immoral or evil, people just live in their own worlds, their own bubbles, and only cares for their own immediate occurrences and problems. Why wouldn't they? Why shouldn't they? Not being either rich or poor myself, I can relate to both sides in this movie. This movie also portrays so well, how different these lifestyles are. How the living conditions of the poor family (don't remember their last name) is just straight up unhealthy, and how secluded and oblivious the luxurious conditions of the rich family is, from the travasties of the poor, the contrast of these two extremely different living conditions is shown again and again, but mostly by imagery in subtle ways, but also so obvious in their subtleties, so it's even more obvious and impactful. On top of that, the film is dark and humorous for entertaining purposes. Witch great acting.
And also, without giving anything away, how the occurrences unfolds towards the end, is not only to give the movie an entertaining and impactful climax/conclusions. It also portrays the real tension of the underlying currents these gaps and problems in society creats. How the big differences and separation of living standards for people, can lead to drastic and devastating outcomes even. But think this movie can probably be interperted in many different ways, and these are just my own interpretations.