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MY IMPRESSIONS ON THE KOREAN MOVIE "PARASITE"

Being a lazy person, my Sunday afternoon nap is almost a sacred ritual for me !  https://fewidlethoughts.blogspot.com/2018/01/two-good-movies.html?m=1  is one instance when a movie affected my nap ! The movie was Satyajit Ray's "Apur Sansar". On Sunday, 05-Apr-2020, another instance occured when I missed my afternoon nap: on that day, my wife and I watched "Parasite", the Korean movie which was awarded the "Best Picture" Academy Award for 2019. We started streaming it at around 2:30 p.m. The next time I turned my neck to check the time in the clock behind me was more than an hour later, well past my usual nap time ! "Do you want to take a break?", I asked my wife. "No, let us watch the movie.", was her reply. So, we watched the movie at a stretch ! The movie is superb ! It deserves the "Best Picture" award. The story is as follows: A young adult Ki-woo who stays in a basement in the poorer section of Seoul gets a job as a