The Rich, the Poor The brutality of Social Structure in Parasite

Abstract

Parasite (2019) is a film that communicates meaning and conveys the emotional discomfort of people in a society that is bounded by social classes, inequality, and injustice include striving to survive in society. The film also provokes thinking that builds realization and demand for access to opportunities and better quality of life. This article presents a film analysis that reflects the class-based society from the film “Parasite” to compare presentations of perspectives on the poor and the rich, the brutality of social structure and social oppression through an idea of class-based society and analyze them based on semiology and signification concepts.

The study found that the literature value of the film Parasite could reflect social disparities in various dimensions such as inequality between social classes and educational disparity which affected social status, profession including living of four requisites. These reflected the advantages of the upper class, while the struggling dimension of the lower class is to attain equivalent living standards by becoming a parasite of the upper class to devour benefits while attaching to the original identity in the new society. This film, therefore, presented various dimensions in which viewers could feel empathy for both the rich and the poor from different perspectives. The essence of the content attempted to present pictures of the society that needed to be elevated and balanced to create equality.