R.F.F. Parasite

Saturday November 23 at 1:00 pm
Parasite - 131 minutes sub-titles
Tickets $12
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This Asian Movie Has A 100% Rating On Rotten Tomatoes

Described as a comedy without clowns and a tragedy without villains," the film moves quickly from one tone to another, mixing pathos and satire with thrills and drama, in a perfectly controlled blend of many different genres.A vertical story of class struggle — punctuated by staircase scenes going from mouldy basements to top floors, from darkness to breezy spaces designed by star architects — Parasite observes and dissects with surgical precision the life of two families of different social backgrounds.

Ki-taek is a good-for-nothing, unemployed family man, patriarch of a family of derelicts — his wife Chung-sook his clever twenty-something daughter Ki-jung and his son Ki-woo (— who live in an overcrowded, sordid basement. The Parks, on the other hand, live in a fabulous house with their teenage daughter Da-hye and terribly spoiled son Da-song, who has suffered a childhood trauma that occasionally causes him seizures and strange behaviour. When, due to an unexpected stroke of luck, Ki-woo is hired by the Parks to be the private English tutor of Da-hye, the destinies of the two families cross. Their explosive meeting exposes the merciless evils of class inequalities, culminating in a powerful and utterly original outcome.