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📘 A family enters through a small opening

Parasite begins below street level, where the Kim family folds pizza boxes and searches for a usable Wi-Fi signal.

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What you’ll learn

  1. Class and spaceFollow the opening and interpret the two homes as a spatial class argument.The Kim and Park homes make inequality spatial; access depends on performance and networks.
  2. Schemes and secretsExplain performance, displacement, the bunker, and the flood as structural relations.The family enters by displacing workers; the bunker and flood expose invisible labor.
  3. Smell, party, and endingInterpret smell, the party climax, and the ending’s suspended hope.Smell, the garden party, and Ki-woo’s uncertain plan carry the film’s class argument to its end.

Questions this course answers

What does the opening setup make visible?

The first opportunity arrives through a recommendation, and the Kims perform credentials to enter.

How do the houses function?

Stairs, levels, windows, and thresholds organize who can see, move, and belong.

Why are the schemes morally complicated?

The family competes with workers who are also vulnerable rather than confronting only the wealthy employer.

What does the bunker add?

Geun-sae's hidden life extends the film's concern with people kept out of sight by wealth.

Why does the garden party matter?

The celebration continues as if service can contain disaster until the hidden structure breaks through.

What does smell reveal in the film?

The smell language turns economic distance into a bodily insult that accumulates across the story.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • Festival de Cannes, Gisaengchung (Parasite), https://www.festival-cannes.com/f/gisaengchung/
  • Festival de Cannes, The Palme d'or, https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/the-festival/the-palme-d-or/
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2020 Academy Awards, https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2020/B
  • British Film Institute, Exploring the aesthetics of Parasite, https://www.bfi.org.uk/find-resources-events-teachers/education-events/exploring-aesthetics-parasite-ks5-film-studies-sold-out

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