Not that good

Rating: 5/10 (21 February 2020)

I finally gave up and watched this movie. There was so much hype around it, I was definitely intrigued.
After a careful watch, I think we are in front of a weak movie. From a technical point of view, nothing to say about it: nice craft, beautiful photography. In-house scenes are delightful. The flood scene is perfect. Very interesting camera angles. Nice analogy by putting the poor in the bottom and the rich on top. This is clear when three members of the poor family are leaving the rich family house after the coffee table scene: they are headed home under the rain, and they go down and down and down till they get home. Corporal odor references are clever.
My point about this movie is that we don't have a real story here. Instead, it's a social gag. The movie starts very slow and for more than one hour something that should not be possible at all (the poor family becoming a parasite of the rich family) happens in front of us in form of a perfect plan that works as a charm. The pace, though, is very slow and the whole situation is unlikely to say the least.
After that, something unexpected happens (the housekeeper re-appears) and the whole story kind of accelerates. Couple of funny things happen, but Bong Joon-Ho looks a little bit lost. The plan, apparenty, is to set up everything so we can fit the usual ultra violent scene that every movie/tv show needs to capture the audience's attention. The strategy of the poor family moves all of a sudden from perfect to disastrous, the climax scene (fortunately) is short enough so we can easily forget about it and after that even some more weird things happen (the scene in the hospital is almost stupid, so it is the ending). Some characters are over-used (like the rich family mother) and some others are almost forgotten when they are super interesting (the young kid of the rich family), ... Even the sequence order in the second half of the movie is in my opinion wrong.
Parasite is not a terrible movie and we live in a society full of people that will enjoy the main metaphor being depicted by Bong Joon-Ho, but by no means we are in front of a masterpiece.