🍑 "The peach in Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE and Luca Guadagnino's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is used to conjure distinct yet related symbols of infectious disease and menacing sexuality. In this essay I will..."
Teaching PARASITE next week for the first time and it's a joy to use this movie to talk about so many things bc
I find the brief moments when it breaks into English so jarring—thinking about why they are dispatched when and how they are
When the mistress of the house says “I’m deadly serious” in PARASITE in English, I feel like I’ve been exposed as a lurking American voyeur—a feeling not unlike when the killer looks right into the binoculars of Jimmy Stewart in REAR WINDOW (and into the camera and into our eyes)
While limited by my inability to understand Korean, I'm fascinated in this viewing of PARASITE how many of the cons are facilitated by English language and/or the US—the help agency is called "The Care," their con names as Kevin & Jessica, the "Indian" stuff is from the US...
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