Parasite Notes
Seoul
Problem of society
Social class: Working class, Camera shots, Mise-en-scene, angle of camera
Wealth: Poor, Camera shots, Mise-en-scene, angle of camera
Equilibrium-non diegetic music, light easily piano sound
First Shot:
Hanging socks
Window is at the same level as the walking street
The basement is dark, outside is light, Binary Opposition, create contrast, shadowing the problem
Camera Booming down, from street to basement
Medium close up
Top lighting, Fill light
Man, plain grey clothes, holing old phone
Equilibrium
Second Shot:
Point of view shot, from his view, see phone, See the house
Phone: can't connect neighbor's Wi-Fi
Third Shot:
Medium close up
Booming up
Tracking the man:
-introduce the house:
old, poor, dark, small, four people live in small basement, crowded, clutter
-introduce other character:
Young female character: wearing plain blue clothes, green towel
Old female character: light blue plain clothes
Old male character: dark brown plain clothes
Man in a room, young female character in a room, old characters in a room, shows the relationship
Poor family lives in basement, reflect the society problem
Fourth Shot:
Low angle long shot
The position of the character in the scene, Son > Woman > lying down man, Power/generation, young g > old g
Woman and Man in the same Level line, the son is behind, new generation and old negation
Son gone
Man went up, same height with Woman, Power =
Fifth Shot:
Establishing shot
Woman’s picture, was an athletes
Woman’s silver medal
Dark = past
Reflect how are athletes treated
Athletes with medal, glory, honor, but live in basement not, poor
Sixth shot:
Mid shot
Son standing, old man siting, young and old generation, height, Young > old
Old man take out one slice of bread for meal, poor
Old man’s hair messy, Unattended
Seventh Shot:
Close up of Son’s phone
Camera dollying the phone
Son holding up the phone looking for WIFI, Above the basement is the street
Holding the phone up, phone closest to the street, “phone is the only way that can make poor people and working class people get close to normal people”
WIFI could = the connection between working class people and normal people
Eighth Shot:
Medium close up of the old man, face expression looks lethargy, could representing all poor people
Eating bread with hand, tear a small piece of bread and put it in mouth, Bread is very important to them and very scarce
Bread = the resources in the society
Camera tilting his hand
Medium close of his hand and the table, Bugs on the table, same level with food
Bad environment, bad condition, dirty
Bug = people who’s seeking other people’s bread (resources)
Even in working class, some people still are trying to take off their resources
Society issue
Shoot the bugs off with fingers, representing how poor people protect their resources, ‘by violence’
Nineth Shot:
Mid shot of the son in toilet
Yellow light, old
Daughter came in, Son get on to stairs, got WIFI
Stairs means the way from poor to wealth, from working class to middle class,
Son was on floor, then daughter came in, Son got on to Stairs, then is the daughter, representing the son moved up the class first then is the daughter
looking for WIFI as well, Son looking the WIFI first, then is the daughter.
WIFI meaning: the tool, or the connection between the class.
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