Kaiak (Jun 2020)

Ambienti non difendibili. "Parasite" di Bong Joon-Ho

  • Giuseppe Russo

Journal volume & issue
no. 7

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The worldwide success of the latest Bong Joon-ho’s movie, Parasite (2019), can be explained with its stylistic solutions, that are the point of arrival of a twenty-years long career as filmmaker who worked both in his homeland and in the USA. The unusual choice of filming a black comedy full of social aspects has succeeded thanks to his enlarged experience. The frame composition and the camera movements look always appropriate to show the conquer of the inner spaces in the big and luxurious house of Park family, though there has been a carelessness of the offscreen, which could perform a major function in a movie of this genre.

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