History YMMV / Parasite2019

** Jung Ji-so, a girl of 15-16, is lusted after by two men in their twenties who serve as her tutors, both angling to ask her out once she attends university. Ki-woo starts a relationship with her early, all the while reading her diary and lying to her. This is particularly bad in Korea, where the age of consent is 20.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Jung Ji-so is shockingly underdeveloped compared to the rest of her family. She could have shown another side of the spoiled upper-class family the Park family represents like "first-world teenage problems" that would puzzle someone like the Kim family. Instead, she starts a relationship of QuestionableConsent with Ki-woo, and everything she does in the movie is because of her attraction to Ki-woo.

* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the idea of Chauffeur Yoon having [[AutoErotica car sex]] specifically inside the Parks' car seems to be this for the Mr. and Mrs. Park, yet in a later scene, it turns out the Park parents are themselves into some uncomfortably weird things, including... that. Mr. Park says he'll get hard if Mrs. Park is wearing Yoon's girlfriend's panties, among other things. The sight of a beautiful woman like Mrs. Park being partially unclothed is pretty {{Fanservice}}-y in concept, but the overall scene will probably just be FanDisservice for a lot of viewers. Especially as their walls are transparent, and they're having sex while their son is sleeping in a tent from across them (at a good distance, but ''still''). Of course, this is a dark movie with numerous {{Squick}} moments, but this stands out for making something that shouldn't be quite so uncomfortable to watch come across as such.
** The Parks' daughter is stated to be in her second year of high school (i.e. 15-16 years old) and definitely looks that young (Jung Ji-so was [[DawsonCasting actually]] [[YoungerThanTheyLook twenty]]), yet Min and Ki-woo (both in the early 20s and [[DawsonCasting played by thirty year old actors]]) openly hit on her and talk about how they'll ask her out formally when she gets to university [[spoiler:(Ki-woo doesn't even wait that long and instead makes out with her near the end of the film)]]. Note that the age of consent in Korea is 20.

* WhatAnIdiot: If only Choong-Sook decided to let [[spoiler: Moon-gwang and her husband to meet occasionally under the condition that Moon-gwang would not reveal the true identities of the Kim family, both sides don't have to suffer senseless deaths that they have to suffer later on, or maybe, the results wouldn't be as dire.]] Too bad Choong-Sook was overridden with greed and [[spoiler: her family eavesdropping them from the bunker's stairs and falling down from the stairs (which confirms Moon-gwang's assumptions about the suspicious new servants of Park family),]] which essentially kicks the plot of the second half of the movie.

* WhatAnIdiot: If only Choong-Sook decided to let [[spoiler: Moon-gwang and her husband to meet occasionally under the condition that Moon-gwang would not reveal the true identities of Ki-taek family, both sides don't have to suffer senseless deaths that they have to suffer later on, or maybe, the results wouldn't be as dire.]] Too bad Choong-Sook was overridden with greed and [[spoiler: her family eavesdropping them from the bunker's stairs and falling down from the stairs (which confirms Moon-gwang's assumptions about the suspicious new servants of Park family),]] which essentially kicks the plot of the second half of the movie.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: During a period of torrential rain, the Ki-taek family sans Choong-sook return to their home only to find it almost completely submerged in water. Geun-sae and Moon-gwang aren't better off either, as Moon-gwang is seriously wounded by Choong-sook and Geun-sae is trying to alert the Parks about the situation below via hitting the light switch for the manor, to no avail.]]

** When the Ki-taek family try to get [[spoiler: Moon-gwang]] fired from the Parks, they claim that she has tuberculosis rather than the peach allergy she has, and use hot sauce to fake her blood.

%%* MoralEventHorizon: The Ki-taek family do increasingly bad things. It may be hard to tell when they reach this.%%Admiistrivia/ZeroContextExample

%%* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Moon-gwang and her husband]], oh so much. See JerkassWoobie above.%%Admiistrivia/ZeroContextExample

* JustForFun/CounterpartComparison: ''Parasite'' and ''Film/{{Us}}'' are both 2019 films featuring people of color as the main cast. They examine social issues and there are no clear-cut heroes or villains in either film. The plotlines both have elements of another family infiltrating an innocent one who aren't actually as innocent as first presented (in ''Parasite'', the Parks are guilty of ConspicuousConsumption and Mr. Park is a classist douchenozzle; in ''Us,'' [[spoiler: the villain "Red" is the real Adelaide, and the Adelaide who survives is AmbiguouslyEvil]]). Of course, the final products are ''vastly'' different from each other, but it's fun to note the similarities. ''Parasite'' director Bong Joon-ho himself has acknowledged that ''Us'' deals with similar themes as ''Parasite,'' though he's pointed out that [[https://www.gq.com/story/parasite-director-bong-joon-ho-interview "it's not as if we all gathered together for a big meeting on how we should talk about class, it just happened very naturally."]]

* JustForFun/CounterpartComparison: ''Parasite'' and ''Film/Us'' are both 2019 films featuring people of color as the main cast. They examine social issues and there are no clear-cut heroes or villains in either film. The plotlines both have elements of another family infiltrating an innocent one who aren't actually as innocent as first presented (in ''Parasite'', the Parks are guilty of ConspicuousConsumption and Mr. Park is a classist douchenozzle; in ''Us,'' [[spoiler: the villain "Red" is the real Adelaide, and the Adelaide who survives is AmbiguouslyEvil]]). Of course, the final products are ''vastly'' different from each other, but it's fun to note the similarities. ''Parasite'' director Bong Joon-ho himself has acknowledged that ''Us'' deals with similar themes as ''Parasite,'' though he's pointed out that [[https://www.gq.com/story/parasite-director-bong-joon-ho-interview "it's not as if we all gathered together for a big meeting on how we should talk about class, it just happened very naturally."]]

* JustForFun/CounterpartComparison: ''Parasite'' and ''Film/Us'' are both 2019 films featuring people of color as the main cast. They examine social issues and there are no clear-cut heroes or villains in either film. The plotlines both have elements of another family infiltrating an innocent one who aren't actually as innocent as first presented (in ''Parasite'', the Parks are guilty of ConspicuousConsumption and Mr. Park is a classist douchenozzle; in ''Us,'' [[spoiler: the villain "Red" is the real Adelaide, and the Adelaide who survives is AmbiguouslyEvil]]). Of course, the final products are ''vastly'' different from each other, but it's fun to point out the similarities. ''Parasite'' director Bong Joon-ho himself has acknowledged that ''Us'' deals with similar themes as ''Parasite,'' although [[https://www.gq.com/story/parasite-director-bong-joon-ho-interview"it's not as if we all gathered together for a big meeting on how we should talk about class, it just happened very naturally."]]

* JustForFun/CounterpartComparison: ''Parasite'' and ''Film/Us'' are both 2019 films featuring people of color as the main cast. They examine social issues and there are no clear-cut heroes or villains in either film. The plotlines both have elements of another family infiltrating an innocent one who aren't actually as innocent as first presented (in ''Parasite'', the Parks are guilty of ConspicuousConsumption and Mr. Park is a classist douchenozzle; in ''Us,'' [[spoiler: the villain "Red" is the real Adelaide, and the Adelaide who survives is AmbiguouslyEvil]]). Of course, the final products are ''vastly'' different from each other, but it's fun to point out the similarities. [[https://www.gq.com/story/parasite-director-bong-joon-ho-interview Bong Joon-ho himself has acknowledged that ''Us'' deals with similar themes as ''Parasite,'' although "it's not as if we all gathered together for a big meeting on how we should talk about class, it just happened very naturally."]]

* CounterpartComparison: ''Parasite'' and ''Film/Us'' are both 2019 films featuring people of color as the main cast. They examine social issues and there are no clear-cut heroes or villains in either film. The plotlines both have elements of another family infiltrating an innocent one who aren't actually as innocent as first presented (in ''Parasite'', the Parks are guilty of ConspicuousConsumption and Mr. Park is a classist douchenozzle; in ''Us,'' [[spoiler: the villain "Red" is the real Adelaide, and the Adelaide who survives is AmbiguouslyEvil]]). Of course, the final products are ''vastly'' different from each other, but it's fun to point out the similarities. [[https://www.gq.com/story/parasite-director-bong-joon-ho-interview Bong Joon-ho himself has acknowledged that ''Us'' deals with similar themes as ''Parasite,'' although "it's not as if we all gathered together for a big meeting on how we should talk about class, it just happened very naturally."]]

* CatharsisFactor: Yes, the Kims are ([[AntiVillain Anti]]-)VillainProtagonist{{s}}. Their criminal acts pile up as the events of the movie unfold. So do those of Moon-gwang and her husband. But the Kims are so destitute that folding pizza boxes initially becomes their only source of income ([[CapitalismIsBad and they sometimes starve nonetheless due to how absurd the standards for box-folding are]]), and resort to letting themselves be suffocated by fumigation gas because they can't afford pest control. As for Moon-gwang and her husband, he's been stuck in an underground bunker for four years, losing his sanity and taking an unhealthy shrine to Mr. Park as he goes mad. Despite all their criminal acts, it's ''really'' difficult not to feel angry when [[spoiler: Mr. Park sees this utterly broken man on the verge of death, thanking him and praising him, and then making no effort to save him and even showing plain disgust all because ''he smells bad''. A literally dying man who's clearly suffered so much and all Mr. Park cared about was that ''he smelled bad''. Not even the criminal actions caused Mr. Park's disgust, it was the smell. Although most viewers would contend that killing Mr. Park is too much of a punishment, there ''had'' to be some form of it for his marked classism.]]

** HePannedItNowHeSucks: The film rates 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the notoriously contrarian Armond White being the lone dissenter.

* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the idea of Chauffeur Yoon having [[AutoErotica car sex]] specifically inside the Parks' car seems to be this for the Mr. and Mrs. Park, yet in a later scene, it turns out the Park parents are themselves into some uncomfortably weird things, including... that. Mr. Park says he'll get hard if Mrs. Park is wearing Yoon's girlfriend's panties, among other things. The sight of a beautiful woman like Mrs. Park being partially unclothed is pretty {{Fanservice}}-y in concept, but the overall scene will probably just be FanDisservice for a lot of viewers. Especially as their walls are transparent, and they're having sex while their son is sleeping in a tent from across them (at a good distance, but ''still'').

* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the idea of Chauffeur Yoon having [[AutoErotica car sex]] specifically inside the Parks' car seems to be this for the Mr. and Mrs. Park, yet in a later scene, it turns out the Park parents are themselves into some uncomfortably weird things, including... that. Mr. Park says he'll get hard if Mrs. Park is wearing Yoon's girlfriend's panties, among other things. The sight of a beautiful woman like Mrs. Park being partially unclothed is pretty {{Fanservice}}-y in concept, but the overall scene will probably just be FanDisservice for a lot of viewers. Especially as their walls are transparent, and they're having sex while their son is sleeping in a tent from across them.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: When the Ki-taek family try to get [[spoiler: Moon-gwang]] fired from the Parks, they claim that she has tuberculosis rather than the peach allergy she has, and use hot sauce to fake her blood.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Ki-taek family do increasingly bad things. It may be hard to tell when they reach this.

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Moon-gwang and her husband]], oh so much. See JerkassWoobie above.

* FunnyMoments: When the Ki-taek family try to get [[spoiler: Moon-gwang]] fired from the Parks, they claim that she has tuberculosis rather than the peach allergy she has, and use hot sauce to fake her blood.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: The deaths of Moon-gwang and Ki-jung.]]

* CryForTheDevil: After all the actions that they've done, it may be hard for some watchers to actually sympathize with the Ki-taek family during the second half of the movie. But [[spoiler: Ki-jung's death in the hands of Moon-gwang's husband, and the ensuing grief from losing her essentially drives the rest of Ki-taek family to abandon their previous ways and to actually make some honest living.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The Ki-taek do increasingly bad things. It may be hard to tell when they reach this.