Parasite

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The housemaid

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1960 Kim ki-young
“the stairs are as important as the characters in this film”

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okja

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2017

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snowpiercer

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2013

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high and low

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Akira kurosawa 1963

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psycho

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hitchcock 1960

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1945

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division between noth and south allong the 38th prallel North= communist USSR, South= capitalist USA

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rain falling on the

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lawn as we sip our whiskey

wide rear

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bong presents the real yet

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dystopian, the hopeful yet doomed, the lateral yet vertical, macabre state of inequalities

Bhandari

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i was tired of seeing

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rich people who were always bad and greedy and poor people who were pitied

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asian financial crisis

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1997 lack of work and widens gap between rich and poor

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not rich but shes still

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nice, nice because she’s rich

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a house that

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wants to believe they’re above ground

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parasite is more

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Shakespearean than Hitchcockian
Kermode

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wealth is always

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built upon poverty and that the two are locked in a constant struggle

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“The needy clawing

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at each other”
Mother 2009

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this is so

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metaphorical

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In 2014, the poverty gap index was

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39%, which ranked third overall among OECD countries.

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spoons

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gold / dirt

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inequality has exploded

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onto the political scene
runaway home prices & stagnating economy has undermined support for president moon jae-in

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SK’s economic inequality is higher than many member of the

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OECD and has worsened in recent years

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a survey showed more than

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85% of SK respondents felt there were “very big” income gaps & needed to be from a wealthy family to be succesful

2019 survey KIHSA

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justice minister

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cho kuk resigned and prosecuted for falsifying documents regarding family investments and efforts to gain university admissions for his children

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the predominantly english language media environment

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fails to move us outside the anglosphere influence

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allegory of representing class with one

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literally being physically above the other while emphasising the powerlessness of the kim’s beneath them who are forced to stay silent and undetected

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a critique of class

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stratification and inequality

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the depiction of gender in the film is

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representative of the notion that higher class and wealth are often closely tied with male power in society and the fact that the higher up the social ladder you go, the more patriarchal it generally becomes. Legras

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ordered it from the U.S.

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broader commentary on colonialism and imperialism SK owes much of its existence and success to its alliance to US political and military interests and adoption of neoliberal economic policy. SK imported America’s capitalistic, stratified social order, im addition to its commodification of cultures

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c——- legacy

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confucian legacy

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gender pay gap

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lower than most OECD countries 31% less

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private academies

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hagwons tutoring

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2020 non regular jobs

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36%

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american culture became

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aspirational

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tragicomedy genre

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reflects hybrid genre style common in korean new wave cinemas

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housing crisis

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banjiha originally intended as bunkers —> low rent housing

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floods in seoul

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2011 semi basement dwellings flooded

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asian financial crisis

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1997 adopted neoliberal reforms privatisations, deregulation, flexible labour led to job insecurity, wage stagnation, and rising living costs

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youth unemployment

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8 - 10% despide one of the highest education rates

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class divide and social mobility low among OECD countries

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2018 report showed it could take 4 years for a child from a poor family to reach average income

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Sound Designer

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Choi accentuates the sounds of the form noting how “the door is a metaphorical sound representing the difference between the haves and have nots”

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180 rule between

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windows (also used for snow piercer) semi basement from right, park house from left

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class represented rigidly

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through architecture, difficulty of class mobility and impossibility of eradicating wealth gap as houses cannot be brought together