Afterall, what is the parasite?

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2020)

First of all, all this opinions are personal and can only be applicable to this especific movie. From now on, I will open my mind how I perceived the movie and how it touched me, not necessarily being a= universal truth. So, read it with open heart.
Photography of the movie is brilliant, as well as the story line unfolding.
Before jumping into what I think is crucial, I just want to remark some romanticized/false assumptions employed in this movie. Life it is just not like that:
1. rich people is happier than the least well-off
2. richness comes out of nowhere, so those people can party all the time
3. every mechanism is valid to get poorness behind, such as scams or tricks
In the other hand, I wanted to remark some authentic premises:
1. Yes, Richness is loneliness
2. Yes, too much money destroy relationship between people. Capital is a relationship solvent
3. Yes, scarcity does not allow people to reach their potentials
4. No, not all poor man is willing to dedicate himself to honest work, and therefore, avoids the burden it brings as challenges
5. Yes, people established in life do rely on strange arguments, as long as they converge to the "goumetization" of life style
6. Yes, all people want to feel special somehow special
7. Yes, simplicity is key for happiness
Some thoughts on the characters:
1. One family represents scarcity, first two levels of Maslow's pyramid: what caught my attention was that despite of being poor, they were not dumb. The boy could have being a genius of design, the girl a successful artist. Instead they deliberately opted for schemes and dishonesty. They laugh virtually all the time, validating each other's mish-mashes. They struggle together and they are happy to share meals together. Poorness in the movies is always romanticized, put in a box where everything is excusable. To me, what defines poorness is not the lack of resources or money, it is thinking the whole life by half. This means, understanding how the world works, what are the underlying rules and how to fit on the scene.
2. The other family represents richness, the top layer of Maslow's pyramid. They went beyond the average. Abundance, excess, distance amidst family members, the need to seek everything specially tailor-mad for them (what I call GoT "gourmetization-of-things", consumerism. Have you notice how few lines between these characters are there? Compare the number of lines among poor family members vs rich family members. Maybe God lives in what is common, collective. Sometimes I there is a natural, intrinsic trend to attribute to richness what is often there. Let us see why. To provide to the family, the father is almost always away. It is not shown on the movie, although I assure you he has many, many, problems to tackle on a daily basis. Being rich does not happen by accident, it is more like being placed on the top of a pyramid of marbles. As the time goes by, if one is not careful, the marbles start to spread all over the place. It takes a lot of effort to put them organized again. The mother is trying to protect the kids with the weapon she has. Daughter and son seldom touched their parents. There is a hidden cost on the mentioned topics. The cost of absence, which is never depicted in movies.
3. The housekeeper it is a symbol of order. She manages to close some family gaps. Always attentive she keep the ball rolling with excellence. Of course, later on the movie, we realize she is also interested on serving because of a personal condition.
4. The man on the basement, could be seen as ghost and glory. Ghost because of subconscious issues we might carry in life. Glory because he live with little and even though is respectful to those who brings him subsistence.
5. The children, might be seen as the ones suffering the consequences of social contrast. On one side, the overwatch and undercaress. Remember the boy receiving the walkie-talkie? Might be the concrete symbol of father-son distance; on the other side, the being close to their parents, whoa re incapable of showing a constructive trail.
Some other core elements on the story line:
1. The smell: it is a way to show arrogant and pedant rich might be. One of the reasons why the driver stabs the father of a family
2. The special club for VIPs: demonstrates how fragile are the rich family, taking decision on shallow perceptions. Being subject to any kind of narrative
3. The houses represent contrast
4. The stone: symbolizes superstition, something that will not make dreams come true. Also, when analyzed the scene on which the boy is stoned, it denotes the tragedy of poor, how it can come back to those who bet chips at it. The wrong way
5. The booze: a psychological help to make rich life bearable
6. The party: more than being the stage of gore violence, it is a stage where one rich family demonstrates its power (id est status, ego, vanity) to other ones
7. The knives: the killings with knives give a more personal and physical aspect to the attacks, something the guns cannot emphasize. It was necessary to the characters to drown their own hands on the victims and provoke the blood shed
In conclusion, at a first level of reflection, the parasite is the poor family, "invading" the house by applying weapons are sensible to.
On a more deep analysis, and I do not even know if the director intended to do so - that is the beauty of any kind of art -, I think the parasite is the alienation, the way people stop seeing other as human beings. This the major common fact orbiting each and every character. It allows the social shock to occur, it allows the contrast to become laughable, it allows greed to flourish, it allows precocious endings and loss of opportunities.