FILMS OF THE WEEK

THE BIG MOVIE

PARASITE (2019) 15

Saturday, 10pm, Ch4 ★★★★★ The popularity of this Oscar-winner and the recent excitement over the Netflix series Squid Game prove that we have a healthy appetite for Korean drama. As with Squid Game, Parasite explores the clear and cavernous divide between South Korea’s haves and have-nots, doing so with a brutal satirical eye and no shortage of twists and shocks. The Kim family (including teenagers played by Park So-dam and Choi Woo-shik, above) live in one of Seoul’s dismal basement apartments, just about scraping by. With devious enthusiasm, they grab the chance to inveigle themselves into the lives of the wealthy Park family, becoming parasitic cuckoos in the Parks’ luxurious nest. But this virtuoso

nightmare doesn’t end there…

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