Great movie, conservative plot

Rating: 7/10 (16 February 2020)

Main dichotomies:

Upstairs vs. downstairs
Comedy vs. tragedy
Hope/planning vs. surviving
Believe in work/effort vs. believing in luck or fate (the stone)

Comments:

Ultimately a conservative movie about how bad characters take bad decisions
Key scene where the parasite family is finally all hired and are together in the rich families house alone - and what do they use the time for? They drink eat and mess everything up instead of acting as civilized human beings. They are basically portraited as parasites invading better people's homes and lives.
The upstairs upper class can be claimed of living in a bubble or being naÃ¯ve - but that is the worst you can say about them.
Many has also claimed they movie portraits how climate changes affects the poor harder, e.g. in the rain scene where the rich look at the weather as an esthetic phenomena and the poor suffer with drought. But this is portrayed comically as in the toilet scene - where it explodes and the daughters is taking a smoke. Furthermore, the window places a central role as they deliberately leave it open (both for the poison in the beginning and the rain)
Also, the son (Choi) is promising to take care of the daughter for his friend hos I going to study abroad, and the first thing he does it to seduce her in order to enable his family to invade and push out all the other workers of the upper class family

However, overall a good well-made and unpredictable movie where the characters are not labelled as good or bad but in between a continuum of acting within their means and dreams