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Parasite
Bong Joon-ho has said Lee Chang-dong taught him that genre films could carry the weight of social critique without becoming lectures — that entertainment and political anger could share the same frame. Burning and Secret Sunshine are the films that built the tradition Parasite sits inside. But the deeper ancestor is Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid (1960) — a Korean film about class resentment in a domestic space, which Bong has called the founding text of Korean cinema. It's on MUBI.
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