Parasite (2019): The Class Allegory Is Its Weakest Layer. The Staircase Is the Masterpiece.
기생충 (2019)
During development the film was not called Parasite. It was called Décalcomanie — two houses folded along a crease, one printed onto the other. The class allegory everyone praises is the layer that has taken the hardest hits from serious critics, and they landed. What holds the film up is a vertical terrain fixed at the concept-art stage — and the third-act genre swerve is not a lapse but the only solution that terrain permits, cost included.