I watched a South Korean black comedy thriller movie that won the Palme d’Or of 2019 Cannes Film Festival, “기생충 (Parasite)”. It is a story of poor family who have ambitions to take over a vacant aristocrat family by frauds. They are unsophisticated 김기택 (Kim Ki-taek), romantic 김기우 (Kim Ki-woo), smart 김기정 (Kim Ki-jung) and mighty박충숙 (Chung-sook). What is important is these families of different types live in the same world and they are crossing over in the movie. The “abstract rock (scholar’s rock)” mediates the connection of the families, and the stairs in the aristocrat’s house connect different worlds where the characters live. Sharp contrasts between the families are very interesting subjects to decipher this movie. The camera work and the lighting are well-designed and beautiful. The music seems not to take care of Kim family and this discrepancy is excellent.
Recently I listed up my favorite novels as examples that make a contrast with the movie “ANNIE”. They are: “Faust”, “Die Verwandlung”, “Der Zauberberg”, “Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall”, “Братья Карамазовы”, “Мастер и Маргарита”, “In a Grove（藪の中）”, “Night on the Galactic Railroad（銀河鉄道の夜）”, and “Silence（沈黙）”. I meant they are different. However, the novels listed have a certain common character that does not implied in “ANNIE”. For example, “The Hunting of the Snark”, “Childhood’s End”, “Finnegans Wake”, “Le Petit Prince” and “Il Nome della Rosa” do imply the character. “The Faerie Queene”, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass” do not imply it. The character is: descriptions of a sort of doomsday. The idea of doomsday very frequently inspires writers and that’s why we encounter so much series of spectra related to this.
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