Parasite

At The Projector

Family of 4- dad, mum, bro, sis. Really poor and live in the semi-basement at the bottom of the valley in South Korea.

Bro has a college friend who introduced him to tutor a rich family's daughter while he is overseas. He gets his sis to forge credentials and wins the mum's approval to tutor the daughter by talking about nonsense shit about valour. Of course the student likes him a lot and they kiss & make out.

He gets his sis in as art therapist for the younger brother. She wins over the mum by enforcing her rules-no mum supervision on first visit. She sees through brother's fake attention seeking ways and goes into bullshit talk about interpreting the drawings. Apparently he was scared in grade 1 because he has seen a 'Ghost' in the house. (This ghost turns out to be the one hidden downstairs in the basement). Sis is hired.

As she gets sent back home, she pulls out her panties and leaves it in the car. Driver gets fired because the parents buy the bullshit assumptions that the driver was having sex in the backseat. Dad gets hired as new driver.

Next they devise a plot to sack the longtime helper, an ajuma who also worked for the previous family and architect of the house. They plant into the head of the wife that she's got TB by scattering peach dust on the helper so she will get an allergic reaction. Wife witnesses her coughing and the driver throws in ketchup 'blood' when retrieving the tissue. She is asked to pack up.

After they have had some status, they throw water at the guy pissing outside their door when previously they always kept quiet. Sis does cool slow mo video of it. The poor can also have eye for art. The somewhat richer people have the guts to kick out the poorer people.

The family goes camping for kiddo's birthday and this poor family hijacks the home to eat and drink and sleep and roll around on the parquet and lawn. Mum makes dad a laughing joke by saying he will scatter like a cockroach when trouble arises. In his fit of anger to this truth, he thrashes all the liquor bottles but laughs about it with wife as a joke. Wife is bitter but plays along for the sake of the children.

Previous housekeeper wants to be let in because she forgot something. That scene was so scary because she looked somewhat crazy. She went in to the basement for a long time but didn't come up. No choice so mum goes down and finds her trying to push open a door. She helps and find a deep deep basement where her husband is kept.

Husband's pineapple business went bust and he can't pay the debts. Now he's hiding here for 4 years 3 months. It's the same company dad worked at before. They get caught in their lies here and are held hostage because of video evidence. Hostage becomes powerful people because of this and poor family is held captive. Couple can relax and do massages and eat and sing songs in praise of North Korea Kim ideology.

Poor family makes a dash for video and ties up the couple in the basement. Rich wife says she's otw home and wants ram-yon with sirloin steak cubes. In 8 mins they'll be home. They do a mad rush to pack up. Boy goes under the bed of daughter and the sis is under the coffee table. Dad is in the basement tying them up. The former maid is pushed down the stairs and injured. Together with her allergy she eventually died.

Boy, sis and dad hides under the coffee table. Kiddo camps on the lawn and rich couple makes love on the sofa. After they have fallen asleep, they escape home to find their home under water. Dad rescues his Sports medal and bro the wealth stone which college student gave. At the refugee camp, dad says the best plan is to have no plan at all.

They are called to the kiddo's birthday party. Owner reminds dad he is paid overtime so he just needs to be a Red Indian role and not step his boundary by questioning his love for his wife. He's using money to exert his power. Sis brings out cake and mad man escapes from basement after dragging the brother around like a dog. The bro went underground with wealth stone maybe to give it to the couple for luck. But crazy man smashes his head with it. He stabs sis, kiddo. Family rushes to help sis. Driver is summoned but he dumps his role to save his family.

When asked to give his car keys, rich Dad looks down on the mad man with utter contempt. Poor dad's saving grace is stabbing the rich Dad after he had stabbed mad man. 

He really runs like cockroach after that and went back into the basement to hide. 

Bro and mum gets away by warning and probation. Bro woke up laughing at all this joke-Sis died, dad missing, a doc who didn't look like one, a policeman who didn't look like one. Bro returns the stone to its rightful place in the river. Maybe the stone didn't bring any wealth but trouble? Bro receives the messages from dad via Morse code and vows to earn a lot of money to buy back that house. 

Parasite roles keep changing in this show. Even the rich are parasites. They leech on the poor to ascertain their self-worth. They are also using each other to fill that void of emptiness and try to be a loving family- husband to wife, husband to son.