Parasite: An Appreciation Of Bong Joon-ho's Cinema
In capitalistic society when the quality of institutions diminishes through lack of funding, privatization, or any other potential manners not only does the quality of life follow, but so does the moral decency of the average person. When the motivation for everything becomes for-profit above all else, no matter how much blood you are dealing with, it becomes such prevalent means through which to view anything that everything else seems obsolete until the stable flow of capital comes with it. There is a phrase in Korean society that arose out of satire in 2015: "Hell Joseon" the term is largely used by younger Korean adults as a shorthand for criticizing the socioeconomic conditions of modern South Korea. The wealth and class disparity is such that a veritable aristocracy exists where the lifestyles of the highest earners are lavish and luxurious comparative to the lower earners that makes them seem almost of different planets. The problems of the common person being complete...
