you'll enjoy this

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2020)

Surprise surprise, they have poor people in South Korea too!
Every news story from South Korea carried by our Western Media shows glittering highrises , gleaming, if crowded, cities and fabulous transportation systems.
Everyone is slim and good looking, everyone has a great job in the electronics industry and it's capitalism at its best, or so they would have us believe.
Underneath this glamour is the same societal structure as there is in the West.... fabulously rich people and the wretched poor.
The story, and we've seen it many times before, is that the wretched poor want to even things up by stealing from, or conning, the rich. It's just human nature at work.
If only the socialists studied that same human nature, instead of being angry at the rich, they would be able to come up with workable solutions to the injustice, but I digress, let's move back to the job at hand.
With the backdrop of South Korea as our tableau we get into a pretty good plot with the underclass pulling a scam on a rich but naive family.
The scammer protagonists, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, are living in squalor in a slum, with no real hope of getting out, when they have a stroke of luck by scoring an introduction to a wealthy family.
They use their devious talents to infiltrate the family and before you know it they have all been hired by them to look after their domestic needs, with well paid, luxury jobs.
From there on in we have the wonderful juxtaposition of the wealthy family living a Kardashian type lifestyle (only much more refined) against the "we've hit the jackpot" mentality of the slum dwellers.
Of course there's no "off" switch for scammers and the beauty of this film is the way they manage the story as it spirals out of control.......... it is really well done.
The acting is superb and the mise en scène is just fabulous. The pacing is right on the button and it's no wonder the film attracted so much attention.
Even with the subtitles it is a very absorbing movie and although I wouldn't put it in the "classic" category (as I would with "A Separation") it's one I could easily watch again and enjoy it just as much.
I have no doubt that it must have been the best picture from the choices that the Academy had.
It's head and shoulders above "The Irishman" and head and shoulders above any other Hollywood movie I watched this past year.
Well worth watching!