Director

Bong Joon-ho

South Korean filmmaker of Memories of Murder, The Host and Snowpiercer; Parasite won the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Picture. One essay so far.

Ambition1 Architecture1 Class1 Deception1 Inequality1

Films covered

Parasite · 2019

Essays

The architecture of class in Parasite

Stairs, windows, sunlight and smell: how Bong Joon-ho builds a class system out of a house, then floods it.

Oct 2026