Abstract
The film Parasites by Bong Jon-Hoo (2019) has raised numerous criticisms of the economic and social model that predatory capitalism has made in recent decades, especially in Asian countries. It is not just the conditions of employment or the exploitation of work, but the personal, familiar and social consequences that shape new behaviours and attitudes in this postmodern society. In fact, if the platonic cave myth serves us for the distinction between truth and falsehood, for the distinction between reality and fiction, Parasites poses an even greater challenge because it alerts us to the existence of multiples caves, to a certain underground that it is more real than that described by Dostoevsky in Notebooks of the underground. The human condition gains visibility in this dialectic movement between the visible and the invisible, between the seen and the unseen, between the known and the ignored; the hard reality, unlike the platonic model, is not on the surface, the place of hyper-modern fiction, but it is in the (at the level of the) underground, a place without fiction, where the fight and the survival strategies are designed to face the real. This essay seeks to make a critical reflection on the underground man and his circumstances through Parasites.
Highlights
The film Parasites by Bong Jon-Hoo (2019) has raised numerous criticisms of the economic and social model that predatory capitalism has made in recent decades, especially in Asian countries
Quer isto significar que a urgência dos tempos e a vivência dos espaços – a introdução de espaços digitais e virtuais transmutou não só as relações sociais como a relação do sujeito consigo mesmo – delimitou e reconfigurou, como demonstram diversos estudos recentes realizados na psicologia e nas neurociências, as capacidades perceptivas-cognitivas do homem moderno e, portanto, também a forma como desenha a trajectória da sua vida e como sucumbe à ilusão da hiper-modernidade
Parasitas não é apenas um filme sobre a sociedade sul-coreana mas é uma obra de arte que nos faz pensar sobre o exaustão da nossa condição humana e das cavernas em que vivemos
Summary
The film Parasites by Bong Jon-Hoo (2019) has raised numerous criticisms of the economic and social model that predatory capitalism has made in recent decades, especially in Asian countries.
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