Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 950 I Didn't Feel Unfree (33)

Simply put, the first act of the movie is a "parasite game walkthrough".

The Harvey family of four lived in a semi-basement and had no regular jobs.

Quite by chance, my son got a job as a tutor in a wealthy family through an introduction.

The family took advantage of this stroke of good fortune and started to do crooked things.

Using a series of deceptions, the brother successively arranged for his sister, father, and mother to work as tutors, drivers, and housekeepers in the mansion.
—A family of four completes the "parasitic" life.

And she drove away Regina Hell, the nanny who had worked for the wealthy family for many years.

When the family of four finally got to live with an upper-class family, everyone felt a sense of joy and relief from poverty. The oppression of poverty and the struggle to make a living had lasted too long and been too bitter. Why wouldn't the family be happy to have a job that could help them out of poverty?

Taking advantage of their camping trip, Matthew's family unleashed their pent-up emotions in a joyous celebration. A flash of lightning followed, and a sudden downpour began, with everyone enjoying the beautiful scenery…

The plot twists in Parasite come with the torrential rain and the reappearance of the former housekeeper...

Act Two:
Regina Hall reappears, revealing a huge secret hidden in the mansion: she has been supporting her debt-ridden husband in the basement.

A fierce conflict erupted between two lower-class families as they fought for their living space.

During the fight, Jennifer Connelly accidentally killed Regina Hall…

An unexpected event occurred when a wealthy family returned home early due to weather conditions, triggering a series of earthquakes and leading to a series of tragedies.

Act Three begins.

Matthew McConaughey is celebrating his youngest son's birthday when two brutal murders occur, forever altering the fate of three families...

—The older brother (Caleb Landry Jones) carried the stone toward the secret passage, intending to personally eliminate the housekeeper and her husband, because he wanted his family to integrate into this wonderful life in the future, and he had to get rid of this threat.

Unexpectedly, Mahershala Ali, already irrational due to his wife's death, grabbed a stone and knocked his brother unconscious. He then picked up a sharp fruit knife and walked straight towards his sister (Saoirse Ronan), who was outside holding a cake to the sound of carol music…

Seeing his daughter lying in a pool of blood, Javier Baden's eyes turned red, and he finally killed Mahershala Ali, but at the same time he also stabbed the male head of the household with the blade. The male head of the household had repeatedly hated the smell of his father, and at the scene he also covered his nose, his eyes full of contempt and disgust, which aroused the father's hatred and sense of dignity.

As the crowd scattered and fled, the father ran away from the scene in a daze, because he didn't want to implicate the rest of his family.

Ultimately, the younger sister died from excessive blood loss, and the mother and brother were imprisoned and sentenced.

Many years later, after his brother was released from prison, he continued to search for his father's whereabouts and kept a close eye on the house of the once wealthy family.

As the lights outside inexplicably flickered out, the older brother finally realized that his father had been hiding in the secret passage, using Morse code to reassure his son that he was safe and sound and there was nothing to worry about…

The movie is over!

Without any hesitation or delay...

Fan Bingbing stood up and applauded along with most of the audience...

The viewing experience of Parasite was quite good!
The movie-watching experience is highly subjective. When you're captivated by a film and fully immerse yourself in the characters, the resulting enjoyment can dull your senses and make you less perceptive of its flaws.

"This movie is very suitable for adaptation into a stage play. We had a three-month shooting period. The director first led all of us in rehearsing the plot and lines, and then we filmed directly in the last month!"

"Many shots were done in one take..."

After the screening at the School of Electronic Science and Technology, the organizers conducted an extremely long special interview with the main creators.

Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey took turns delivering a speech...

"The director only built two houses from beginning to end, one for the rich and one for the poor, and greatly downplayed the individual characteristics of all the characters, because this is a completely allegorical story, very much a magical realism..."

Javier Bardem said, "I knew the impact would be the greatest after watching the film. Humanity, forbearance, class, the director portrays them to the extreme through a highly personal style. After you delve into all these irrationalities, he says it's a fable he made... but is it really just a fable?"

When it was Shen Yan's turn, he smiled and said, "I previously filmed 'Burning,' and many reviews said that I didn't understand it and it wasn't straightforward enough... I've been holding my breath ever since... This time, with 'Parasite,' I don't talk about humanity. I deliberately make the characters stereotypical, minimize their individuality, maximize their class characteristics, and make each character a social symbol."

"Moreover, I abandoned continuous dialogue scenes and relied entirely on audiovisual elements to provoke rational thinking!"

"Using extreme and clearly contrasting identity settings to create conflict, and weaving a story with high drama, it's direct, straightforward, and easy for audiences all over the world to understand!"

"The impetus for making this film came from a trash can, the one in the kitchen in the movie. It was made in Germany and cost $2300. My first reaction when I heard about it was, 'What idiot would buy such an expensive trash can?' 'Trash cans are just for holding trash!' But it really did cost $2300..."

"The gap between the poor and the rich is sometimes greater than the gap between a person and a dog!"

A Chinese reporter asked, "I heard that 'Parasite' wasn't made into a Chinese-language film because you were worried it wouldn't pass censorship?"

"Yes!"

Don't you think they're restricting film freedom?

"This has nothing to do with freedom. The Chinese film market has gradually become the world's largest film market," Shen Yan waved his hand. "The rules and regulations are there. If you want to make money in China, you have to follow the rules. I can still release a film in English... I don't feel like I'm not free..."

I took a look... wow, a reporter from *Youth Film Handbook*...

This group looks down on commercial films, but they rave about independent films and the Sixth Generation of filmmakers…

The article goes to great lengths to glorify Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Lou Ye…

Oh, the *Youth Film Handbook* is the organizer of the Golden Broom Awards…

Under the guidance of this group, the film criticism industry developed a standard that "any film that dares to be made is a good film"...

Therefore, the bolder the endorsement, the better they like it, and directors of banned films are even better!
As a director, if you haven't made a few banned films, they'll think you're not daring enough... and then you'll be criticized!

According to their logic, since "Parasite" wasn't made into a Chinese-language film, Shen Yan must be furious. They could easily provoke him and get him to spout some "freedom" rhetoric, but Shen Yan wouldn't have any of it...

Shen Yan even said, "While politics and marginal figures can certainly spark discussion, I'm not interested in those things. Relatively speaking, I don't like pandering; I prefer to create things proactively!"

(End of this chapter)