No. 55. (2019) Parasite June 22nd.

Film No 55 (2019) June 22nd.  11:00 AM  LUNA PALACE Leederville. 

"I just think that architecture affects the mood in which people can think and then reflect on their lives". (Joon-ho Bong talks to journalists about the "vehicles" he uses in his films to help him tell stories).

Palme d'Or winner, Parasite, is more than simply the  winner of a major film award, it also wins the hearts and minds of the international viewing public as a film written and directed with power and purpose. Joon-ho Bong used an out of control train as his vehicle in expressing a view on social hierarchy in Snowpiercer. In Parasite Joon focuses on family and architecture as his foundation for expression. Ke-taek (Kang-ho Song) and his family are dirt poor, so to gain leverage in their lives they hoodwink a young, wealthy family (Park) into employing each and every one of them. The catch being, the Parks' have no idea that they are related. The old fashioned quietness of the film with its slow pans and melodic soundtrack gives Parasite texture, colour, body and ultimately power. Fans of Joon (The Host, Okja) will not need convincing. Film goers who love  quality in storytelling, where the brain is allowed to roam, feeling out new horizons in intellectual nourishment, need to see Parasite.   11GUMS.