Parasite: The Difference Between Rich and Poor is Just About Odor?

Parasite is a black and white South Korean movie which has won a thousand accolades internationally by lots of nominations, for its screenplay, actor and actress, director, cinematography, picture, and other aspects able to assess as part of a great film (www.imdb.com, 2020).

Amazingly, Parasite has impressed entertainers and made novelty Oscar history by taking home four trophies in the prestigious event for best picture, directing, international feature film, and writing or original screenplay (www.oscar.go.com, 2020).

Well, actually I’m not keen on Korean movies cause of too strong addiction effects. So, just because I didn’t want to miss the boat, I said yes when my friends asked me whether I wanted to join or not to come along in a girls’ day out, and watching movies in a cinema is one of intriguing activities which we often do. They tried to convince me that Parasite is a worthy-watched motion picture.

Perhaps I would be regretful if I skipped watching Parasite, a horrible fascinating comedy thriller drama which I ever have seen was full of satire and lifted up social issues in our close circumstances. Although the ending story was quite strange but never did I imagined that motivation of killing could emerge just because of someone’s spontaneous words about rotten radish odor. Why the smell is more crucial?

Let’s have a deep talk about odor,

Odor is an important sense owned by human to alert unconditional things and closely linked to parts of the brain that process emotion and memory. But it’s not only about smelling but also notifying social class in our society.

The rich can straightforwardly choose what's the odor that they want to have as Park’s family in Parasite movie which has the ability to buy an expensive well-known perfume, to access freshwater, or even to devise and build good technology-based air circulation in their home that supports them to become a sweet-scented family every single time.

By contrast, Kim’s family is depicted as the lowest level in the social community which has a very serious problem in odor. They inhabit in a seedy environment and poor sanitation wrapped by unpleasant and bad smells. Don’t think about how they buy a suitable fragrance because not feeling starving is the grateful thing that they have to struggle every single day.

Like or dislike, agree or disagree, the complexity of odor has brought broadly the difference between rich and poor. It sends signals naturally to every human brain to identify the possibility of social class. In fact, there is so many imperceptible complicated meaning behind of odor.

At least, it's a very small lesson that I can share from this entertaining film brilliantly written by endeavoring to understand a modest social issue but has a significant impact in our society nowadays. There is always a cliff between rich and poor but there is always a way to create it narrow.