decided to give your video a watch as i'm also using the text for an ethics class, and i really enjoyed hearing your insights-especially with the weight of the film's themes made more personal and resonant to your own experiences. i feel more confident in approaching the film as a question of how capitalism itself undermines our attempts to live morally & ethically, when even the concept of morality itself can be at the expense of our survival. looking forward to more philosophical film reviews from you! i also hope you're doing much better now & things worked out for you.
Nice heartfelt review not only about the movie but also about society and its easy to see your disappointment in human nature since you’re such an idealist.
I agree with your perspective. Maybe the thing Bong Junho was trying to tell us is there are some ways to become better life for all of us. But in reality it doesnt always goes right. In my perspective view the stone kijung got shows the main theme of the movie. It could be seem as a precious monument but at the end he almost died from that stone.
Great video and great review, helped me understand the movie better and I like your detailed description. I will be coming to your channel more often, subscribed. I hope you are doing well.
just browsing through parasite reviews and found your video very insightful. That's also terrible that you lost your job recently and hits home with me a little, i hope everything works out for you!
Hey, film philosophers! (That's everyone watching this video, if you're wondering.) What do you think it would look like to pursue the American Dream without becoming a parasite? Let's discuss this or any other question raised by the movie.
I think there are plenty of examples of pursuing the American Dream if you look to social democracies in Northern Europe. I'm not an expert but Sweden, Denmark and Norway come to mind. A good social system offering a safety net and support in the case of individuals or families falling on hard times would go a long way to temper the parasitic instincts we all have. Both South Korea and the U.S. worship success in all its obvious forms --- financial, educational, social. But success depends so much on one's existing socio-economic position and less on one's own drive/ambition and efforts. The U.S. and South Korea do not have good social safety nets or supports that try and help upward mobility and it is biased to the already wealthy and well-connected. When the poor have nothing... when pulling oneself by the bootstraps is extremely hard, next to impossible when you don't have boots.... or bootstraps. I'm in Canada and we have a few more things going for us up here -- public healthcare system and colleges and universities that still charge high tuition but not high enough to make you an indentured servant for the rest of your life. But there's also a huge gap and we have our extremely poor and growing homeless population which are not being adequately helped by society/government. Bong Joon Ho through his movie Parasite is putting it out there for us while we are enjoying a thrilling, darkly funny and darkly tragic movie whether we accept this winner-take-all system that divides and isolates people rather than get us pulling together for all our benefit. I think you should indeed continue to review movies with a philosophical lens or just a perspective from someone who's got an educated background. Bong Joon Ho's Mother is well liked by fans of his but there aren't too many reviews of this film on YT. All the best to you. I'm so sorry that you got laid off and it was done so callously via phone message. I hope things look up in the employment/wealth front soon.
decided to give your video a watch as i'm also using the text for an ethics class, and i really enjoyed hearing your insights-especially with the weight of the film's themes made more personal and resonant to your own experiences. i feel more confident in approaching the film as a question of how capitalism itself undermines our attempts to live morally & ethically, when even the concept of morality itself can be at the expense of our survival.
looking forward to more philosophical film reviews from you! i also hope you're doing much better now & things worked out for you.
Nice heartfelt review not only about the movie but also about society and its easy to see your disappointment in human nature since you’re such an idealist.
I agree with your perspective.
Maybe the thing Bong Junho was trying to tell us is there are some ways to become better life for all of us. But in reality it doesnt always goes right. In my perspective view the stone kijung got shows the main theme of the movie. It could be seem as a precious monument but at the end he almost died from that stone.
But in reality it doesnt always go wrong so what is reality?
Great video and great review, helped me understand the movie better and I like your detailed description. I will be coming to your channel more often, subscribed. I hope you are doing well.
just browsing through parasite reviews and found your video very insightful. That's also terrible that you lost your job recently and hits home with me a little, i hope everything works out for you!
Hey, film philosophers! (That's everyone watching this video, if you're wondering.) What do you think it would look like to pursue the American Dream without becoming a parasite? Let's discuss this or any other question raised by the movie.
I think there are plenty of examples of pursuing the American Dream if you look to social democracies in Northern Europe. I'm not an expert but Sweden, Denmark and Norway come to mind. A good social system offering a safety net and support in the case of individuals or families falling on hard times would go a long way to temper the parasitic instincts we all have. Both South Korea and the U.S. worship success in all its obvious forms --- financial, educational, social. But success depends so much on one's existing socio-economic position and less on one's own drive/ambition and efforts. The U.S. and South Korea do not have good social safety nets or supports that try and help upward mobility and it is biased to the already wealthy and well-connected. When the poor have nothing... when pulling oneself by the bootstraps is extremely hard, next to impossible when you don't have boots.... or bootstraps.
I'm in Canada and we have a few more things going for us up here -- public healthcare system and colleges and universities that still charge high tuition but not high enough to make you an indentured servant for the rest of your life. But there's also a huge gap and we have our extremely poor and growing homeless population which are not being adequately helped by society/government.
Bong Joon Ho through his movie Parasite is putting it out there for us while we are enjoying a thrilling, darkly funny and darkly tragic movie whether we accept this winner-take-all system that divides and isolates people rather than get us pulling together for all our benefit.
I think you should indeed continue to review movies with a philosophical lens or just a perspective from someone who's got an educated background. Bong Joon Ho's Mother is well liked by fans of his but there aren't too many reviews of this film on YT. All the best to you. I'm so sorry that you got laid off and it was done so callously via phone message. I hope things look up in the employment/wealth front soon.
You know what i can totally see you become a youtube star