[WATCH] ‘Parasite’ Trailer, One Of 2019’s Most Acclaimed Films

Parasite, the most recent function from acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Okja), took dwelling the Palme d’Or on the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Previous winners of the celebrated award embrace intercourse, lies, and videotape, Pulp Fiction, and one among final 12 months’s most interesting movies, Shoplifters. In different phrases, it’s an enormous deal; perhaps even greater than successful the Academy Award for Best Picture, in case you take into account Crash and Green Book that by no means received the Palme d’Or. And now you possibly can see what all of the hubbub — Parasite is batting an ideal 70 for 70 amongst critics on Rotten Tomatoes — is about within the darkly humorous trailer above.

Bonghive, assemble. Here’s the official plot abstract:

Meet the Park Family: the image of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, wealthy in road smarts however not a lot else. Be it probability or destiny, these two homes are introduced collectively and the Kims sense a golden alternative. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim youngsters expediently set up themselves as tutor and artwork therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship varieties between the 2 households. The Kims present “indispensable” luxurious companies whereas the Parks obliviously bankroll their whole family. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound consolation, a savage battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the delicate ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.

Parasite, starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, and Park So-dam, opens on October 11.