{"id":355,"date":"2019-11-21T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2019-12-01T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:34:46","slug":"parasite-thursday-november-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/parasite-thursday-november-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasite. Perfection."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/parasite2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/parasite2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/parasite2-541x360.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my experience, Korean films can be (and love to be) a bit over-the-top (as can films from any country, to be fair, still&#8230; Korea seems to have a special advantage in this respect), but Bong Joon Ho&#8217;s <em>Parasite<\/em> strikes a magical balance of over-the-top-ness and gripping story-telling that left me and our lovely audience screaming with delight tonight. I hope the neighbors didn&#8217;t mind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As perfect as it gets, <em>Parasite<\/em> invites you to be an insider to begin with&#8230; you just know how this con is going to play out, and you cheer as it does, until&#8230; well&#8230; until&#8230; This is film-making at its very best. Somewhat reminiscent of last year&#8217;s Palme d&#8217;or winner, <em>Shoplifters<\/em>, come to think of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since <em>Parasite<\/em> is a tiny bit on the long side (not that you&#8217;d notice), we selected a brief short this evening&#8230; our go-to brief short, in fact. <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Evil Beaver, (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IB7OU0MlIvs\" target=\"_blank\">Evil Beaver<\/a><\/em> a Miller Lite commercial, believe it or not. Funny.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6751668\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, Korean films can be (and love to be) a bit over-the-top (as can films from any country, to be fair, still&#8230; Korea seems to have a special advantage in this respect), but Bong Joon Ho&#8217;s Parasite strikes a magical balance of over-the-top-ness and gripping story-telling that left me and our lovely audience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/parasite-thursday-november-21st\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parasite. Perfection.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}