Warning: This article contains major spoilers forParasite.
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Anyone whos seen the movie knows it only gets crazier from there.
Its something thats sad, but also something funny and foolish at the same time.
Bong continues, The protagonists, the Kim family, they live in a semi-basement home.
Its a unique residential structure that exists in Korea.
The meaning of that structure is its half overground, half underground.
They still have access to the overground, but they never know when they can fall even further below.
In this story they finally encounter a couple that actually lives in a complete basement, without windows.
Its a sad story about these two families ending up antagonizing one another.
As tragic as the conflict between the Kims and the housekeeper is, the scene itself is ridiculously funny.
To add insult to injury, she then starts comically imitating a North Korean news anchor.
They would have fun making those jokes.
I think thats the context of that.
The Kims win their initial fight, and even inadvertently kill the housekeeper.
The role of cowboys and Indians in this bout of class-war violence was no accident, says Bong.
So you could say its a joke in that context, Bong says.
But at the same time, the Native Americans have a very complicated and long, deep history.
But in this family, that story is reduced to a young boys hobby and decoration.
They dont know the life of the revolutionary figure, they just think its a cool T-shirt.
As forParasiteitself, its anything but surface-level.
