Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies
The first thing you see in Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite," a thriller of extraordinary cunning and emotional force, is an upper window in a tiny underground apartment.
From this high, narrow vantage the Kims, a resilient family of four, peer onto a grubby Seoul street strewn with garbage bags and electrical wires - an ugly view made worse by a drunk who often turns up to relieve himself right outside. Sometime later the Kims will stand before a much larger window, as big and beautiful as a cinema screen, in an enormous house with a gorgeous sunlit garden. It's not just a different view; it's a different world.
From the outset of this deviously entertaining movie, which recently became the first South Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes, every detail
