And this is what explains both their global success.
Both are dark parables about a society built on the foundations of capitalism but overpowered by its most extreme form.
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Parasite is a more personal story about a working-class family that has no hope of a better life, and are okay living off the literal scraps cast off by the wealthy, while the series explores a society so callous that a group of people are willing to gamble their lives for money. And the Kims celebrate with cheap pizza while a casual meal in the Park household involves premium cuts of beef. The Parks live in an ultra-modern home with giant panes that give them sweeping views of their meticulously mowed garden and manicured hedges while the Kims scamper down city steps into a tiny home that looks out into a street that also is a urinal for drunks. The Kims worry about money while the Parks are more concerned about unpleasant smells emanating from poor people. The title Parasite refers to the Kim family, who live in sewage-flooded squalor and start leeching off the wealthy Park family. The irony of grown-up adults risking their lives to win money to repay their debts by playing kids' games has attracted global viewers | Netflix At their core, both Parasite and Squid Game are a biting critique of inequality.Ī scene from "Honeycomb Cookie" Game in "Squid Game." Oct, 2021. The comparisons to Joon-ho’s masterpiece are not just limited to the global success. This is a reminder that audiences have an appetite for compelling storytelling and stunning visuals regardless of language or even familiarity. The journey of the show towards global domination is very similar to Parasite, the first non-English film that made history by winning four Oscars, including Best Picture. Squid Game has well and truly become a part of the cultural zeitgeist. Not only does the show have a 100 percent approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it has also inspired online merchandise, spawned TikTok challenges, and memes. This premise, coupled with some really interesting characters, results in a perfect storm of revulsion and fascination that is impossible to look away from. This is juxtaposed against a series of simple childhood games like Tug-of-War, Red Light – Green Light, carried out in pastel-coloured playrooms. Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show examines despair, greed, and a yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots.
The nine-part Netflix Original revolves around a group of financially distressed people from all walks of life who sign up for a blood n’ gore race with an unimaginably large cash pay-out. In the three weeks since its low-key worldwide release, the gritty, grim, and gruesome drama has become Netflix’s ‘biggest show ever’ with over a 100 million households having consumed it so far. Two years later, Squid Game, the ultraviolent South Korean show is the ‘it’ series around the world. While accepting one of the many, many awards the film Parasite won, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho asked viewers across the world to overcome the ‘one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles’.
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