The Kims, we soon learn, are quixotically ambitious and almost Machiavellian in their ingenuity. They steal whatever free Wi-Fi their cheap phones can pick up, leave their windows open so the street fumigators will also kill their stink- bug infestation, and watch helplessly as local drunks piss on the road above them. They are unemployed and apparently unemployable. We meet the impoverished Kim family - parents Ki-taek ( Song Kang-ho) and Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin), and their adult children Ki-jung (So-dam Park) and Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) - living in a squalid semi-basement apartment. This, his seventh film, is different again after the futuristic stylings of Okja and Snowpiercer, Parasite initially snaps into something resembling contemporary social realism.
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