10 Movies Which Go From 0-100 Right At The End

South Korean auteur Bong Joon-Ho may have been making exciting, entertaining and politically charged movies for two and a half decades, but it wasn’t until 2019 that the world sat up and took notice, with his ground-breaking, class-based comedy-thriller Parasite.

Told through the lens of a family on the breadline barely making ends meet, the film transports us to present-day Seoul, where the Kims gradually insert themselves into the rich Park family’s life, faking it until they make it as a university-educated tutor, an art therapist, a chauffeur, and a housekeeper. But greed and a seemingly unbreakable class barrier endanger the families’ symbiotic relationship and lead to a series of close calls, deceptions, and humiliations, all while the previous housekeeper’s husband Oh Geun-sae (Park Myung-hoon) lives secretly in the basement.

Bong never lays track for it to go nowhere, and Parasite’s conclusion arrives in an explosion of violence at a birthday party for Da-song (Jung Hyeon-jun), the Parks’ son. Geun-sae breaks loose from the basement, attacks the interloping Kim family, causes Da-song to have a seizure, and, in all the madness and confusion, Kim patriarch Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) stabs and kills his opposite, Park Dong-ik (Lee Sun-kyun). This brief flurry of violence ignites Parasite’s themes and takes the film up a few hundred notches in the process.