Parasite

It is no surprise that director Joon-ho Bong's Parasite is the very first South Korean feature to be ever awarded the top 2019 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or and is South Korean's official 2020 Best Foreign Language Academy Award entry.

In what may be director Joon-ho Bong’s most radical social disparity commentary, Parasite's thrilling edge of the seat cross-genre cinematic masterpiece is thematically provocative and stylistically suggestive while offering one of the most viscerally entertaining features on screen.

Apparent is Bong's self-assured strokes of well paced, seamless tone transitions of comedy, drama-thriller and horror. The narrative, about the impoverished Kim family who obtain jobs at the opulent Park family’s home through fraudulent means, is filled with brilliantly surprising and unexpected plot twists. Bong probes the extent one is driven to gain or protect what is perceived as being one's rightful posession.

Coupled by exceptional framing is the cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo and production designer Lee Ha-jun. Expertly pivoting the script are co-writers Jin Won Han and Joon-ho Bong. 

Across the board superb performances include Kang-ho Song and Chang Hyae-jin (as Kim parents Ki-taek and Chung-sook), Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam (as adult Kim son and daughter Ki-woo and Ki-Jung), Lee Sun-kyu and Jo Yeo-jeong (as Mr. and Mrs. Park) and Jung Ji-So and Jung Hyun-Joon (as teenage daughter Da-Hye and young son Da-Song).