Bong Joon Ho's movie centering on two Seoul families — one super wealthy, one living in squalor — seems poised to become South Korea's first Oscar-nominated film. Go inside the making and inspiration of Parasite:
When South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho was in his early 20s, he took a job as a tutor for the son of a wildly wealthy family in Seoul.
"This idea of a poor family infiltrating the lives of a rich one is where I first delved in," says Bong, adding that his intellectual ideas for the project — many critics have interpreted the film as a scathing critique of capitalism and income inequality — came much later in his process. "It was more like putting these characters together in a very controlled environment and then watching the chemical reactions unfold.
Almost as important as the actors, though, was the film's settings — the two mirror-image homes where virtually all the action takes place. "Although this film doesn't have a lot of sets, I understood that these houses would be very important to its symbolic language, because 80 percent of the story happens inside them," says production designer Lee Ha-jun, who designed each home with parallel front-facing windows .
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