Parasite: 10 Reasons To Watch This Genre-Bending Dark Comedy Thriller
5. The Settings
The settings do a lot of visual storytelling in so many facets of the film. Though most of the story only takes place in two main locations, the way they service the story is seen in both their symbolism as well as their technical advantages for camerawork.
The mansion is full of sharp angles, around which cameras move to reveal what's around the corner, like the film revealing the next part of the story. The sub-basement the Kims live in shows how they're just above ground enough to hope for economic betterment, despite a majority of their lives being lived underground. The literal distance between both homes shows the economic disparity between the two.
And the actual basement, with its terrifying and tight corners, shows an entirely different side of poverty, where inhumane conditions exist exactly underneath the luxury of the elite, the kind where some people just don't expect their lives to change, instead finding a way to live off and experience the lives of the rich for a few stolen moments.