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tragabigzanda wrote:So I wanna talk Parasite, specifically a couple technical aspects, and then a question for those who've seen it:

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Two technical aspects I really appreciated:

1. The lighting was phenomenal. Dark basements, sunny lawns, dim interiors, monsoon-soaked streets in the night, and more... And I could see everything, every detail, no shitty shadow stuff or saturated lighting.

2. I really loved how intimately I understood the layout of that house. The second story is maybe a little confusing still, but the ground floor, the layout of the rooms, and garage entrance up the stairs to the main landing, the leading from the antique case down to the basement, and from there the L-shaped stairway leading down to the subterranean dwelling. It's rare that a complex physical space is so well defined in film, I think.

Thematically, I'm trying to pick something apart and hoping you guys can weigh in. Obviously this film is like a masterclass in repeatedly reinforcing its main themes, and I love how he folds ideas back on themselves over and over again.

But thinking specifically about the Kim family's individual arcs, I'm trying to find deeper meaning in the daughter's story specifically...

Son: Is gifted the stone, tries to give the stone to the couple beneath the house to bring them good fortune, winds up nearly killed by the stone, and ultimately trapped back in the basement dwelling, alone with his mother.

Mom: While the rest of the Kim family was eager to see some upward mobility, her appreciation of the opportunities to prey on the Park family was more mean-spirited; she seemed to take joy in fleecing them, beyond what fortune it could bring her own family. And so it makes thematic sense that she's sent back to her basement dwelling, with her negative outlook and forced to clean her toxic belongings, without her husband or daughter.

Dad: Starts the story in a basement, beholden to his family, eating shitty food, vulnerable to the elements. Ends the story in a basement, but without anyone relying on him, with better access to better food, and hey! He's got some books, some wi-fi, and no real threat from the elements.

Daughter: This is where I get a little lost. She starts as perhaps the most gifted of the family, and she applies those gifts to get really close with the artistic Park son. Then she is killed while delivering a cake to the Park boy on his birthday. But is there some deeper meaning to her arc that I am missing?

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yes the best lighting is lighting that shows all details, none of those pesky shadows

I'm sure it's different in your amazing set up, but considering I'm typically streaming on a TCL Roku TV, I'ce come to despite extreme shadows that typically come out blocky.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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I also need to think about it more....i agree that the mom was pretty mean with the family and the dad took the hardest blow when his daughter dies. Im not sure really about her....i think she was dragged with her family to her very end. The consecuence of what they did.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

BurtReynolds wrote:I really liked the setting and lighting of Parasite as well. The house was a character in the movie, and it really helped tell the story as well.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I really liked the setting and lighting of Parasite as well. The house was a character in the movie, and it really helped tell the story as well.

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BurtReynolds wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I really liked the setting and lighting of Parasite as well. The house was a character in the movie, and it really helped tell the story as well.

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