Parasite (Korean: 기생충; Hanja: 寄生蟲; RR: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, who also wrote the film's story and co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, and Park So-dam.
Parasite had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019, where it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or and the first film to do so with a unanimous vote since 2013's Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The film was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on 30 May 2019 and in the rest of the world through 2019 to early 2020. It received critical acclaim and was generally considered one of the best films of the year by critics.[9] It also grossed $131 million worldwide, becoming Bong's highest-grossing release and the third highest-grossing film in South Korea.[10] Multiple critics have ranked Parasite as being among the best films since 2010.[11]
At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best International Feature Film, making it the first South Korean film to be nominated in those categories.[12] At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it also received four nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards.
Plot
The Kim family, consisting of father, Kim Ki-taek, mother, Chung-sook, son, Ki-woo, and daughter, Ki-jeong, live in a small semi-basement apartment, working low-paying temporary jobs and struggling to make ends meet. Ki-woo's friend Min-hyuk, who is preparing to study abroad, gifts the Kim family with a scholar's rock that is supposed to bring them wealth. Min-hyuk suggests that Ki-woo pose as a university student to take over his job as an English tutor for the wealthy Park family's teenage daughter, Da-hye. Once Ki-woo is hired, the rest of the Kims successively pose as sophisticated skilled workers, unrelated to each other, and integrate themselves into the lives of the Parks: Ki-woo begins a romantic relationship with Da-hye; Ki-jeong poses as an art therapist and is hired to teach their son, Da-song; Ki-taek is hired as a chauffeur after Mr. Park's driver is fired when Ki-jeong frames him for having sex in the car; and Chung-sook is hired to replace the current housekeeper, Moon-gwang, after the Kims exploit her allergy to peaches, claiming that she has tuberculosis.
When the Parks leave on a camping trip, the Kims occupy the mansion, revelling in its luxuries. That night, Moon-gwang returns, claiming that she left something in the basement. She opens a secret bunker, revealing that her husband, Geun-sae, has lived there for years to hide from loan sharks. As she begs Chung-sook to keep their secret, the eavesdropping Kims accidentally stumble into view. Moon-gwang threatens to expose their scam after realizing they are a family, leading to a fight.
The Parks suddenly call, informing Chung-sook that heavy rain has ruined the trip and that they are arriving home shortly. The Kims force Geun-sae and Moon-gwang into the bunker; Moon-gwang is kicked down the stairs by Chung-sook and suffers an eventually fatal head injury. When the Parks return, Mrs. Park tells Chung-sook that her son was traumatized years earlier by seeing a "ghost" emerge from the basement: Geun-sae. With the other three Kims hiding nearby, Mr. Park complains to his wife that while Ki-taek is a competent driver, he smells bad. The three Kims escape the mansion undetected, but find their apartment flooded by sewage water driven by the rain. They spend the night in a local gym, along with hundreds of others driven out by the rain.
The following day, Mrs. Park throws a birthday party for Da-song and invites the staff. Ki-woo returns to the bunker with the scholar's rock but is ambushed by Geun-sae, who hits him over the head with the rock. Geun-sae escapes the bunker and rushes into the party, stabbing Ki-jeong. Geun-sae's sudden appearance triggers Da-song's traumatic memory, causing a seizure. As Ki-taek rushes to help Ki-jeong, Mr. Park yells at him to drive Da-song to the hospital. Ki-taek throws him the car keys, which land under the struggling Chung-sook and Geun-sae. Chung-sook manages to kill Geun-sae with a meat skewer. As Mr. Park retrieves the keys, he recoils from Geun-sae's smell. Ki-taek, witnessing Mr. Park's reaction to the smell, fatally stabs Mr. Park before fleeing.
Weeks later, Ki-woo awakens from a coma and is sentenced, along with Chung-sook, to probation for fraud; Ki-jeong has died from her wound. Geun-sae’s motive and the whereabouts of Ki-taek, who is wanted for Mr. Park's murder, are unknown. While watching the Parks' recently sold mansion, Ki-woo notices a light flickering in Morse code – a SKATS message from Ki-taek, who now lives in the bunker. Ki-woo vows to one day earn enough money to purchase the mansion and free his father.
Cast
Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, father of the Kim family
Chang Hyae-jin [ko] as Kim Chung-sook, mother of the Kim family
Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jeong, daughter of the Kim family
Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo, son of the Kim family
Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-ik, father of the Park family
Cho Yeo-jeong as Park Yeon-gyo, mother of the Park family
Jeong Ji-so as Park Da-hye, daughter of the Park family
Jung Hyeon-jun as Park Da-song, son of the Park family
Lee Jung-eun as Gook Moon-gwang, the housekeeper
Park Myung-hoon [ko] as Geun-sae, Moon-gwang's husband
Park Geun-rok as Yoon, the chauffeur
Jung Yi-seo as the pizzeria manager
Park Seo-joon as Min-hyuk (cameo)[13]
Production
Principal photography began on 18 May 2018[14][15] and ended 77 days later on 19 September 2018.[16]
The Parks' house, said in the film to be designed by a fictional architect named Namgoong Hyeonja, was an entirely newly-built set.[17] Production designer Lee Ha-jun said the sun was an important factor with building the outdoor set. "The sun's direction was a crucial point of consideration while we were searching for outdoor lots," explained Lee. "We had to remember the sun's position during our desired time frame and determine the positions and sizes of the windows accordingly. In terms of practical lighting, the DP [director of photography Hong Kyung-pyo] had specific requests regarding the color. He wanted sophisticated indirect lighting and the warmth from tungsten light sources. Before building the set, the DP and I visited the lot several times to check the sun’s movement at each time, and we decided on the set's location together."[18]
"Since Mr. Park's house is built by an architect in the story, it wasn't easy finding the right approach to designing the house," he added. "I'm not an architect, and I think there's a difference in how an architect envisions a space and how a production designer does. We prioritize blocking and camera angles while architects build spaces for people to actually live in and thus design around people. So I think the approach is very different."[18]
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May.[19] It was released in South Korea on 30 May 2019.[5][16]
Neon acquired the Northern American rights to the film at the 2018 American Film Market.[20][21] The film's rights were also pre-sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Films), French-speaking territories (The Jokers) and Japan (Bitters End).[22]
It was released in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Films on 27 June 2019[23] (becoming both the highest-ever-grossing Korean film in the region[24] and the distributor's highest-ever-grossing non-English language film in Australia),[25] Russia on 4 July 2019, and in the United States and Canada on 11 October 2019.[26]
The film was originally scheduled to be screened as a closing film at FIRST International Film Festival Xining in China on 28 July 2019, but on 27 July, the film festival organizers announced that the screening was cancelled for "technical reasons."[27]
It was licensed for the United Kingdom and Ireland by Curzon Artificial Eye at Cannes, and will have preview screenings with an interview with Bong Joon-ho shared live by satellite on 3 February 2020, followed by the film's general release on 7 February.[28]
Reception
Box office
As of 10 January 2020, Parasite has grossed $24.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $107 million in other territories (including $73 million from South Korea), for a worldwide total of $131.4 million.[7][8]
In the film's United States opening weekend, the film grossed $376,264 from three theaters. Its per-venue average of $125,421 was the best since La La Land's in 2016, and the best-ever for a foreign-language film.[29] It expanded to 33 theaters in its second weekend, making $1.24 million,[30] and then made $1.8 million from 129 theaters in its third.[31] The film made $2.5 million in its fourth weekend and $2.6 million in its fifth.[32] The film's theater count peaked in its sixth weekend at 620, when it made $1.9 million.[33] It continued to hold well in the following weekends, making $1.3 million and $1 million.[34][35] In its tenth week of release the film crossed the $20 million mark (rare for a foreign-language film), making $632,500 from 306 theaters.[36]
The film grossed US$20.7 million in its opening weekend in South Korea.[7]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 99% based on 350 reviews, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft."[37] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on reviews from 48 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[38]
Writing for the New York Times, A.O. Scott described the film as "wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically-energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies."[39] Bilge Ebiri of NY Mag wrote that Parasite is "a work that is itself in a state of constant, agitated transformation—a nerve-racking masterpiece whose spell lingers long after its haunting final image."[40] In his five-star review of the film, Dave Calhoun of Time Out praised the social commentary and stated that "This is a dazzling work, surprising and fully gripping from beginning to end, full of big bangs and small wonders."[41] Variety's Jessica Kiang described the film as "a wild, wild ride," writing that "Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage."[42] The A.V. Club's A. A. Dowd gave the film an A−, praising the fun and surprising twists.[43] Joshua Rivera from GQ gave a glowing review and declared Parasite to be "Maybe 2019's best film" and further said, "It's so top-to-bottom satisfying that even being completely spoiled couldn't ruin it – but if you can come to it cold, you'll be floored."[44]
Top-ten lists
Parasite appeared on many critics' year-end top-ten lists,[45] among them:
1st – Alissa Wilkinson,[a] Vox[46]
1st – Angie Han, Mashable[47]
1st – Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail[48]
1st – Ben Travers, IndieWire[49]
1st – Candice Frederick, Harper's Bazaar[50]
1st – Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle[51]
1st – Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Dan Jackson, Thrillist[53]
1st – David Crow, Den of Geek[54]
1st – Don Kaye, Den of Geek[55]
1st – Film Comment[56]
1st – Film School Rejects [57]
1st – Flood Magazine[58]
1st – Godfrey Cheshire III, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Guy Lodge, The Guardian[59]
1st – Hyperallergic[60]
1st – IGN[61]
1st – IndieWire (300+ Critics Survey)[62]
1st – Jessica Kiang and The Playlist Staff, The Playlist[63]
1st – Justin Chang,[b] Los Angeles Times[64]
1st – Karen Han, Polygon[65]
1st – Katie Rife, The A.V. Club[66]
1st – Keith Watson, Slant Magazine[67]
1st – Laura Di Girolamo, Exclaim![68]
1st – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly[69]
1st – Matt Goldberg, Collider[70]
1st – Matt Neglia, Next Best Picture[71]
1st – Matthew Jacobs, Huffington Post[72]
1st – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune[73]
1st – Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club[74]
1st – Online Film Critics Society[75]
1st – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair[76]
1st – Rotten Tomatoes[77]
1st – Sara Stewart, New York Post[78]
1st – Sarah Ward, Screen Daily[79]
1st – Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune[80]
1st – Seongyong Cho, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Sydney Morning Herald[81]
1st – Tasha Robinson, Polygon[65]
1st – Tom Reimann, Collider[82]
1st – Valerie Ettenhofer, Film School Rejects[83]
1st – Vinnie Mancuso, Collider[84]
1st – WatchMojo[85]
2nd – Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press[86]
2nd – Anne Thompson, IndieWire[87]
2nd – Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News[88]
2nd – David Ehrlich, IndieWire[89]
2nd – David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter[90]
2nd – Jonathan Sim, Vocal [91]
2nd – Kate Erbland, IndieWire[92]
2nd – Mark Hughes, Forbes [93]
2nd – Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com[52]
2nd – Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman, The Ringer[94]
2nd – Sight & Sound[95]
3rd – A. O. Scott, The New York Times[96]
3rd – Alison Willmore, New York magazine[97]
3rd – Amy Taubin, Artforum[98]
3rd – Bilge Ebiri, New York magazine[97]
3rd – Complex[99]
3rd – Consequence of Sound[100]
3rd – David Sims, The Atlantic[101]
3rd – Good Morning America[102]
3rd – Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer[103]
3rd – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times[96]
3rd – Mark Dujsik, RogerEbert.com[52]
3rd – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush[104]
3rd – Max Weiss, Baltimore[105]
3rd – Natalie Zutter, Den of Geek[106]
3rd – Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com[52]
3rd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone[107]
3rd – Samuel R. Murian, Parade[108]
3rd – Ty Burr, Boston Globe[109]
3rd – Yahoo! Entertainment[110]
4th – Adam Chitwood, Collider[111]
4th – Allison Shoemaker, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Alonso Duralde, The Wrap[112]
4th – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Jake Coyle, Associated Press[113]
4th – Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post[114]
4th – Kristy Puchko, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly[115]
4th – Matt Patches, Polygon[65]
4th – Michal Oleszczyk, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter[90]
4th – Tom Brook, Talking Movies[116]
5th – David Edelstein, Vulture[97]
5th – Derek Smith, Slant Magazine[67]
5th – Justin Kroll, Variety[117]
6th – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter[118]
5th – Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com[52]
6th – Caroline Siede, The A.V. Club[119]
6th – Collin Souter, RogerEbert.com[52]
6th – Eli Glasner, CBC[120]
6th – Eric Kohn, IndieWire[121]
6th – Jon Frosch. The Hollywood Reporter[90]
6th – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York[122]
6th – Stephanie Zacharek, Time[123]
6th – Kyle Smith, National Review[124]
7th – Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast[125]
8th – Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press[113]
9th – Brian Truitt, USA Today[126]
9th – Eugene Hernandez, Film at Lincoln Center[127]
9th – Max O'Connell, RogerEbert.com[52]
9th – Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor[128]
9th – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times[129]
10th – Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com[52]
10th – Tom Gliatto, People magazine[130]
Top 10 (not ranked)
Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times[131]
Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival[132]
James Verniere, Boston Herald[133]
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal[134]
Dana Stevens, Slate[135]
Sheila Nevins, MTV Documentary Films[136]
Stephen Rebello, Playboy[137]
Parasite also appeared on many critics' Best-of-the-decade top 10 lists,[11] among them:
1st – Den of Geek[138]
1st – Karen Han, Polygon[139]
2nd – Kevin O'Connor, The Ringer[140]
3rd – Amanda Dobbins, The Ringer[141]
3rd – Film School Rejects[142]
4th – Norman Wilner, Now Magazine[143]
4th – Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune[144]
5th – /Film[145]
5th – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair[146]
7th – Gregory Ellwood, The Playlist[147]
8th – Los Angeles Film Critics Association[148]
10th – Chris Plante, Polygon[149]
Honorable mention – WatchMojo[150]
Top 10 (not ranked)
Dana Stevens, Slate[151]
On Metacritic, Parasite ranked 7th among the films with the highest scores of the decade.[11] As of 28 December 2019 it is the 42nd highest rated film of all time on the website.[152]
Parasite had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019, where it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or and the first film to do so with a unanimous vote since 2013's Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The film was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on 30 May 2019 and in the rest of the world through 2019 to early 2020. It received critical acclaim and was generally considered one of the best films of the year by critics.[9] It also grossed $131 million worldwide, becoming Bong's highest-grossing release and the third highest-grossing film in South Korea.[10] Multiple critics have ranked Parasite as being among the best films since 2010.[11]
At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best International Feature Film, making it the first South Korean film to be nominated in those categories.[12] At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it also received four nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards.
Plot
The Kim family, consisting of father, Kim Ki-taek, mother, Chung-sook, son, Ki-woo, and daughter, Ki-jeong, live in a small semi-basement apartment, working low-paying temporary jobs and struggling to make ends meet. Ki-woo's friend Min-hyuk, who is preparing to study abroad, gifts the Kim family with a scholar's rock that is supposed to bring them wealth. Min-hyuk suggests that Ki-woo pose as a university student to take over his job as an English tutor for the wealthy Park family's teenage daughter, Da-hye. Once Ki-woo is hired, the rest of the Kims successively pose as sophisticated skilled workers, unrelated to each other, and integrate themselves into the lives of the Parks: Ki-woo begins a romantic relationship with Da-hye; Ki-jeong poses as an art therapist and is hired to teach their son, Da-song; Ki-taek is hired as a chauffeur after Mr. Park's driver is fired when Ki-jeong frames him for having sex in the car; and Chung-sook is hired to replace the current housekeeper, Moon-gwang, after the Kims exploit her allergy to peaches, claiming that she has tuberculosis.
When the Parks leave on a camping trip, the Kims occupy the mansion, revelling in its luxuries. That night, Moon-gwang returns, claiming that she left something in the basement. She opens a secret bunker, revealing that her husband, Geun-sae, has lived there for years to hide from loan sharks. As she begs Chung-sook to keep their secret, the eavesdropping Kims accidentally stumble into view. Moon-gwang threatens to expose their scam after realizing they are a family, leading to a fight.
The Parks suddenly call, informing Chung-sook that heavy rain has ruined the trip and that they are arriving home shortly. The Kims force Geun-sae and Moon-gwang into the bunker; Moon-gwang is kicked down the stairs by Chung-sook and suffers an eventually fatal head injury. When the Parks return, Mrs. Park tells Chung-sook that her son was traumatized years earlier by seeing a "ghost" emerge from the basement: Geun-sae. With the other three Kims hiding nearby, Mr. Park complains to his wife that while Ki-taek is a competent driver, he smells bad. The three Kims escape the mansion undetected, but find their apartment flooded by sewage water driven by the rain. They spend the night in a local gym, along with hundreds of others driven out by the rain.
The following day, Mrs. Park throws a birthday party for Da-song and invites the staff. Ki-woo returns to the bunker with the scholar's rock but is ambushed by Geun-sae, who hits him over the head with the rock. Geun-sae escapes the bunker and rushes into the party, stabbing Ki-jeong. Geun-sae's sudden appearance triggers Da-song's traumatic memory, causing a seizure. As Ki-taek rushes to help Ki-jeong, Mr. Park yells at him to drive Da-song to the hospital. Ki-taek throws him the car keys, which land under the struggling Chung-sook and Geun-sae. Chung-sook manages to kill Geun-sae with a meat skewer. As Mr. Park retrieves the keys, he recoils from Geun-sae's smell. Ki-taek, witnessing Mr. Park's reaction to the smell, fatally stabs Mr. Park before fleeing.
Weeks later, Ki-woo awakens from a coma and is sentenced, along with Chung-sook, to probation for fraud; Ki-jeong has died from her wound. Geun-sae’s motive and the whereabouts of Ki-taek, who is wanted for Mr. Park's murder, are unknown. While watching the Parks' recently sold mansion, Ki-woo notices a light flickering in Morse code – a SKATS message from Ki-taek, who now lives in the bunker. Ki-woo vows to one day earn enough money to purchase the mansion and free his father.
Cast
Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, father of the Kim family
Chang Hyae-jin [ko] as Kim Chung-sook, mother of the Kim family
Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jeong, daughter of the Kim family
Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo, son of the Kim family
Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-ik, father of the Park family
Cho Yeo-jeong as Park Yeon-gyo, mother of the Park family
Jeong Ji-so as Park Da-hye, daughter of the Park family
Jung Hyeon-jun as Park Da-song, son of the Park family
Lee Jung-eun as Gook Moon-gwang, the housekeeper
Park Myung-hoon [ko] as Geun-sae, Moon-gwang's husband
Park Geun-rok as Yoon, the chauffeur
Jung Yi-seo as the pizzeria manager
Park Seo-joon as Min-hyuk (cameo)[13]
Production
Principal photography began on 18 May 2018[14][15] and ended 77 days later on 19 September 2018.[16]
The Parks' house, said in the film to be designed by a fictional architect named Namgoong Hyeonja, was an entirely newly-built set.[17] Production designer Lee Ha-jun said the sun was an important factor with building the outdoor set. "The sun's direction was a crucial point of consideration while we were searching for outdoor lots," explained Lee. "We had to remember the sun's position during our desired time frame and determine the positions and sizes of the windows accordingly. In terms of practical lighting, the DP [director of photography Hong Kyung-pyo] had specific requests regarding the color. He wanted sophisticated indirect lighting and the warmth from tungsten light sources. Before building the set, the DP and I visited the lot several times to check the sun’s movement at each time, and we decided on the set's location together."[18]
"Since Mr. Park's house is built by an architect in the story, it wasn't easy finding the right approach to designing the house," he added. "I'm not an architect, and I think there's a difference in how an architect envisions a space and how a production designer does. We prioritize blocking and camera angles while architects build spaces for people to actually live in and thus design around people. So I think the approach is very different."[18]
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May.[19] It was released in South Korea on 30 May 2019.[5][16]
Neon acquired the Northern American rights to the film at the 2018 American Film Market.[20][21] The film's rights were also pre-sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Films), French-speaking territories (The Jokers) and Japan (Bitters End).[22]
It was released in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Films on 27 June 2019[23] (becoming both the highest-ever-grossing Korean film in the region[24] and the distributor's highest-ever-grossing non-English language film in Australia),[25] Russia on 4 July 2019, and in the United States and Canada on 11 October 2019.[26]
The film was originally scheduled to be screened as a closing film at FIRST International Film Festival Xining in China on 28 July 2019, but on 27 July, the film festival organizers announced that the screening was cancelled for "technical reasons."[27]
It was licensed for the United Kingdom and Ireland by Curzon Artificial Eye at Cannes, and will have preview screenings with an interview with Bong Joon-ho shared live by satellite on 3 February 2020, followed by the film's general release on 7 February.[28]
Reception
Box office
As of 10 January 2020, Parasite has grossed $24.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $107 million in other territories (including $73 million from South Korea), for a worldwide total of $131.4 million.[7][8]
In the film's United States opening weekend, the film grossed $376,264 from three theaters. Its per-venue average of $125,421 was the best since La La Land's in 2016, and the best-ever for a foreign-language film.[29] It expanded to 33 theaters in its second weekend, making $1.24 million,[30] and then made $1.8 million from 129 theaters in its third.[31] The film made $2.5 million in its fourth weekend and $2.6 million in its fifth.[32] The film's theater count peaked in its sixth weekend at 620, when it made $1.9 million.[33] It continued to hold well in the following weekends, making $1.3 million and $1 million.[34][35] In its tenth week of release the film crossed the $20 million mark (rare for a foreign-language film), making $632,500 from 306 theaters.[36]
The film grossed US$20.7 million in its opening weekend in South Korea.[7]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 99% based on 350 reviews, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft."[37] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on reviews from 48 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[38]
Writing for the New York Times, A.O. Scott described the film as "wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically-energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies."[39] Bilge Ebiri of NY Mag wrote that Parasite is "a work that is itself in a state of constant, agitated transformation—a nerve-racking masterpiece whose spell lingers long after its haunting final image."[40] In his five-star review of the film, Dave Calhoun of Time Out praised the social commentary and stated that "This is a dazzling work, surprising and fully gripping from beginning to end, full of big bangs and small wonders."[41] Variety's Jessica Kiang described the film as "a wild, wild ride," writing that "Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage."[42] The A.V. Club's A. A. Dowd gave the film an A−, praising the fun and surprising twists.[43] Joshua Rivera from GQ gave a glowing review and declared Parasite to be "Maybe 2019's best film" and further said, "It's so top-to-bottom satisfying that even being completely spoiled couldn't ruin it – but if you can come to it cold, you'll be floored."[44]
Top-ten lists
Parasite appeared on many critics' year-end top-ten lists,[45] among them:
1st – Alissa Wilkinson,[a] Vox[46]
1st – Angie Han, Mashable[47]
1st – Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail[48]
1st – Ben Travers, IndieWire[49]
1st – Candice Frederick, Harper's Bazaar[50]
1st – Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle[51]
1st – Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Dan Jackson, Thrillist[53]
1st – David Crow, Den of Geek[54]
1st – Don Kaye, Den of Geek[55]
1st – Film Comment[56]
1st – Film School Rejects [57]
1st – Flood Magazine[58]
1st – Godfrey Cheshire III, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Guy Lodge, The Guardian[59]
1st – Hyperallergic[60]
1st – IGN[61]
1st – IndieWire (300+ Critics Survey)[62]
1st – Jessica Kiang and The Playlist Staff, The Playlist[63]
1st – Justin Chang,[b] Los Angeles Times[64]
1st – Karen Han, Polygon[65]
1st – Katie Rife, The A.V. Club[66]
1st – Keith Watson, Slant Magazine[67]
1st – Laura Di Girolamo, Exclaim![68]
1st – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly[69]
1st – Matt Goldberg, Collider[70]
1st – Matt Neglia, Next Best Picture[71]
1st – Matthew Jacobs, Huffington Post[72]
1st – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune[73]
1st – Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club[74]
1st – Online Film Critics Society[75]
1st – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair[76]
1st – Rotten Tomatoes[77]
1st – Sara Stewart, New York Post[78]
1st – Sarah Ward, Screen Daily[79]
1st – Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune[80]
1st – Seongyong Cho, RogerEbert.com[52]
1st – Sydney Morning Herald[81]
1st – Tasha Robinson, Polygon[65]
1st – Tom Reimann, Collider[82]
1st – Valerie Ettenhofer, Film School Rejects[83]
1st – Vinnie Mancuso, Collider[84]
1st – WatchMojo[85]
2nd – Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press[86]
2nd – Anne Thompson, IndieWire[87]
2nd – Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News[88]
2nd – David Ehrlich, IndieWire[89]
2nd – David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter[90]
2nd – Jonathan Sim, Vocal [91]
2nd – Kate Erbland, IndieWire[92]
2nd – Mark Hughes, Forbes [93]
2nd – Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com[52]
2nd – Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman, The Ringer[94]
2nd – Sight & Sound[95]
3rd – A. O. Scott, The New York Times[96]
3rd – Alison Willmore, New York magazine[97]
3rd – Amy Taubin, Artforum[98]
3rd – Bilge Ebiri, New York magazine[97]
3rd – Complex[99]
3rd – Consequence of Sound[100]
3rd – David Sims, The Atlantic[101]
3rd – Good Morning America[102]
3rd – Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer[103]
3rd – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times[96]
3rd – Mark Dujsik, RogerEbert.com[52]
3rd – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush[104]
3rd – Max Weiss, Baltimore[105]
3rd – Natalie Zutter, Den of Geek[106]
3rd – Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com[52]
3rd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone[107]
3rd – Samuel R. Murian, Parade[108]
3rd – Ty Burr, Boston Globe[109]
3rd – Yahoo! Entertainment[110]
4th – Adam Chitwood, Collider[111]
4th – Allison Shoemaker, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Alonso Duralde, The Wrap[112]
4th – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Jake Coyle, Associated Press[113]
4th – Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post[114]
4th – Kristy Puchko, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly[115]
4th – Matt Patches, Polygon[65]
4th – Michal Oleszczyk, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com[52]
4th – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter[90]
4th – Tom Brook, Talking Movies[116]
5th – David Edelstein, Vulture[97]
5th – Derek Smith, Slant Magazine[67]
5th – Justin Kroll, Variety[117]
6th – Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter[118]
5th – Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com[52]
6th – Caroline Siede, The A.V. Club[119]
6th – Collin Souter, RogerEbert.com[52]
6th – Eli Glasner, CBC[120]
6th – Eric Kohn, IndieWire[121]
6th – Jon Frosch. The Hollywood Reporter[90]
6th – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York[122]
6th – Stephanie Zacharek, Time[123]
6th – Kyle Smith, National Review[124]
7th – Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast[125]
8th – Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press[113]
9th – Brian Truitt, USA Today[126]
9th – Eugene Hernandez, Film at Lincoln Center[127]
9th – Max O'Connell, RogerEbert.com[52]
9th – Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor[128]
9th – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times[129]
10th – Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com[52]
10th – Tom Gliatto, People magazine[130]
Top 10 (not ranked)
Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times[131]
Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival[132]
James Verniere, Boston Herald[133]
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal[134]
Dana Stevens, Slate[135]
Sheila Nevins, MTV Documentary Films[136]
Stephen Rebello, Playboy[137]
Parasite also appeared on many critics' Best-of-the-decade top 10 lists,[11] among them:
1st – Den of Geek[138]
1st – Karen Han, Polygon[139]
2nd – Kevin O'Connor, The Ringer[140]
3rd – Amanda Dobbins, The Ringer[141]
3rd – Film School Rejects[142]
4th – Norman Wilner, Now Magazine[143]
4th – Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune[144]
5th – /Film[145]
5th – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair[146]
7th – Gregory Ellwood, The Playlist[147]
8th – Los Angeles Film Critics Association[148]
10th – Chris Plante, Polygon[149]
Honorable mention – WatchMojo[150]
Top 10 (not ranked)
Dana Stevens, Slate[151]
On Metacritic, Parasite ranked 7th among the films with the highest scores of the decade.[11] As of 28 December 2019 it is the 42nd highest rated film of all time on the website.[152]
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