There is not ONE PERSON slacking, and it SHOWS. Parasite seamlessly goes from a dark comedy to a thriller to a drama to a straight-up horror movie, and also - if the freakin' Oscars won't say it, then I will - every goddamn performance in this movie is AWARD-WORTHY. I have never in my LIFE seen a movie so cleanly switch genres like four times in two hours. THE WHOLE TIME?! If you heard some dumbass say, "WHAT?!" out loud in the theater when this was revealed, you should've said, "Hi!" because it was me. She had her husband secretly living in the rich family's basement/bomb shelter the whole time. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one dark and stormy night, the old maid shows up to pick up ~something she left behind~ when she was let go. Some context: A poverty-stricken family slowly cons a rich family into hiring each of them on one by one for different everyday jobs (tutor, art teacher, driver, and maid). I like it a lot, and I certainly didn't see this ending coming at the ripe age of 13, so check this one out if any of this sounds promising to you! It's also Michael Douglas at his most Michael Douglas–est. We all have those, right? RIGHT?! Anyway, it's a really freaky movie as a whole (which also happens to be my exact brand of thriller), and IMHO, it's one of David Fincher's most overlooked films. and now it's burned into my dumb brain forever" movies. ![]() Why it's here: This is one of those classic, "My mom made me watch it when I was 13 and it was on, like, TBS or something at 2 p.m. Basically, it's like LARPing, but without all the fun parts. In the end, our main character is on the brink of insanity - having been made to believe that he's just shot his own brother by accident - when.well, THIS happens. Some context: A successful banker's boring-as-all-heck life is flipped upside-down when his weirdo brother gives him a one-of-a-kind birthday gift: participation in a "game" that slowly integrates itself into your everyday life and becomes more and more personal as it goes on.
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