Parasite’s Class-Conflict Nightmare [review]

For people who don't want to watch Parasite, but want a quick summary. [spoilers]

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/03/09/parasites-class-conflict-nightmare/

The director is Bong Joon-ho, who has a knack for making films with left-wing themes and targets — factory farming, the military–industrial complex, the 1 percent — that maintain a slippery strangeness that keeps them from feeling too predictable or didactic. A movie such as Snowpiercer, his most famous English-language film, is a case in point: The story of a revolutionary uprising on a train hurtling around a frozen globe, in summary it sounds like a thudding complaint about climate change and the super rich, but in practice it’s an act of exotic, gorgeous, mildly insane world-building, rivaling the original Matrix as one of the most memorable science fantasies of recent years.