for a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. our femi oke a terrorist site in new south korean film about wealth inequality has picked up dozens of awards since its release it is also in the running for a 6 oscars including best picture so what is it about the movie that's got people talking it is just thoughts or join our live chat and you too could be in the stream. has a new and a nice relationship. with the one we certainly are not more than their own. car. powerslide highlights the fictional plight of the poor kim family and their attempt to insinuate their way into the wealthy part household they came feed off the park says money bought the parks also benefit from the cames who work as tutors and house help in a bizarre i was told of events the family drama escalates in a shocking violent way. jose at the power site aims to raise questions about dignity social mobility and capitalism it's a story about the powerless fighting each other and that is the saddest thing he said that last october joining us to discuss this complex film is can india as a t.v. critic for the hollywood reporter in san francisco california who also have a career in film expert after fests of east asian studies at university of california. and finally we have nancy joining us from los angeles california now c. is a sociologist and author of real inequality hollywood actors and racism yes it is wonderful to see you we're going to take a pledge of no spoilers if you break it let's see if we can pull it back because there's so many incredible little twists in this film i don't want to spoil it for anybody who's about to go and see it so let me start here on my laptop this is the french poster for parasite and i'm going to scroll down here and you can see there's a porsche house at the top and. not such a posh house and then here the water's a flop ward isn't sewer water is that pretty much is a beautiful visualization of what the film is about nancy what does it mean. what does power sites say. a lot of things that paris i'd say but that poster of the layers of inequality it's physically like symbolically visually represented so it's really exciting through the plot and through literally seeing this beautiful house that they're part of and then seeing this in the compound way and then seeing where they live which is sort of subterranean they can barely see outside and what they see is pretty. like a guy you know like peeing in public and so it's it's you know you go to this beautiful house and it's pristine it looks like looks like a fantasy right and so i love how this poster really demonstrates that even though they are literally living under them but. these layers really demonstrate it represents a class difference. and i think that i keep looking at when the poster are the 2 figures on the side that are trying to climb up of course a natural thing if you see a class hierarchy is to try to get to the top to be on the top of society and a lot and so much of the movie is about how you have to have almost this self delusion about yourself and about class and what you can accomplish as an individual to get to that top and then sort of about the sacrifices you're willing to make. on your way to the top and i think what's really great about parasites and maybe indicative of korean culture and that way is that you are not only trying to get to the top but also trying to take your family along with you and of course when you bring family along that gets so much more complicated tell us about the premise is you went to the premiere what's that like was the reaction like. i was in korea when the film opened i think go to the premier i miss a premiere but i was with a korean general public you know watching the movie. and it was it was fascinating to see obviously the film in the context of you know in the us this is the kind of human code that the film brings out in korea is a slightly little different scene as people are laughing at scenes but you know obviously different kind of scene so that was to me you know quite interesting to see how the film registers in korea versus the way the film registers in the u.s. there's almost 2 kinds of himachal going on what we're playing career came up versus outside of korean humor can you break that down for us a little better understand what's mike in different countries and off i think. americans tend to laugh a lot lot more than koreans to or you know the world in general so i think the human are. specially i don't you know place the the mother of the park family when she's actually talking a lot in english you know she use every so crowded mannerisms and the way she brings out the errors of credit mannerism is to actually try to pretend she knows a lot more english than she actually does some of that is interesting because obviously this korean language movie but the koreans wouldn't able to register the kind of a human you know she's actually trying to pull out americans are obviously a lot more compliant to that kind of humor or you know i am in the ball so there will be laughing at schizophrenia she actually says that word we pieced out word. schizophrenia premia you know like you know schizophrenia so that's the kind of thing that i thought he was very interesting it's almost as if the director knows that he's going for a because i want to extend south korea so he's doing the problems in terms of. script. in terms of the humor and what's going to pilton which kind of demographic that that that's pretty much the forces that i think that are i think a bond you know he literally said i think it was the golden globes that are it's not a foreign language like we speak the language of cinema yeah and i would i would imagine that he's trying to just kind of do a cinematic language and he's done a lot of hollywood films as well as korean films and so i think that and he's worked with you know actors of all different ethnicities and nationalities and i think that he's really keen are being able to i think reach across different audiences. i think also one of the reasons why he has been so successful and he's been able and his movies have been able to translate so well internationally are because he has this very signature blend and very different types of the shots and sort of emotional registers so if you told me that paris that was a comedy i would say sure if you told me parasite is a tragedy i would sure if you told me it was a horror movie if you told me it was a thriller if you told me it was an action movie if you told me it was a heist film like all of those make sense because so much of fun to work. it's about being able to see these disparate elements and trying to weld them together into this bizarre at least seamless whole you can sort of think of it like frankenstein if like frankenstein with a perfectly i don't know like. well adjusted yeah member of society i guess i'd also look like a cape like a member of a k. pop band like a beautiful frankenstein. i think one of the reasons why it's evil to travel very well is because whatever you like and there's something of that in the movie i think that there's also a lot of really korean specific jokes like there's a sort of theme there is like this like random gag seemingly where the characters imitates a north korean announcer with all the bombast that you expect from those and those are. and you know it's pretty funny to us in the u.s. i think south korea where you need more of a gallows humor about the north korean threat i think it's just hunter over there and so that's like a good example joe so it will be both in korean and international desk to take a take a pause for a moment because i want to share some of the other reviews have been coming and so this one came from. i told our online audience we're going to talk about paris like today send us your family's dad says brilliant comments on late capitalism we're always thinking of someone else love the director's line about it as a comedy with no clowns a hero with no villains and me to move on to one more tweet a comment before we go to a t.v. critic this is matthew. power site is definitely one of the best films of 2019 it's a very good example of the beauty that exists in embracing films from diverse regions around the world and then this is jeremy blitz to me but it sums up. why does that is so appealing about the south korean film havoc. my main takeaway was the contrast to the dichotomy of those 23 which will see them to the western very. trim of your face with these are going to covering the war in the core family was deceitful in my view there much of the people who want their own benefit without remorse but really interested one want to see a movie about the rich or in secret we're going to respond. so if something was going through well you know. oh my gosh. go ahead i tell you i don't i disagree with the last critic i thought that rich family it was free to be harmful and just the way that they look down on people that the whole there's a part where he says that poor people smell differently i felt the pain that. song . character felt and like it's the kind of i mean the micrograms sion but it really is represents where there's you know there's there's a part where there's a flood and it's like they're like. mad nancy and you just get to tell the entire film that me oh i'm going to put you in the quiet room finale in the smallest attention and then talk to cayle and tell you you think all new ways of splitting the film is not entirely a split but they were between the rich family and the paul family one of the things that happens is that the poor family smell to think from them which i did and that's brought up in the film. yeah i think the film is wonderful for obviously the pichon of social inequality but one of the things that we should recognize is obviously korea was very close to i mean this us is open democratic side now but for years he actually went through a military dictatorship and he still has obviously are called were kind of scheme that is actually going on with north korea so in the things it does it does bring out the element of obviously blacklisting you know who's who is this family a parasite you know i mean the coffee referenced madwoman in the attic i think is turned into a mad man in the cellar you know which i think is wonderful and it brings out the kind of obviously the crackdown that you had with. you know leftist intellectuals' during the. military dictatorship which actually point you know himself went through because a lot of people don't know this but the director is not really like open totally open about this but his family is from the rest korea or he has actually has a. grandfather maternal grandfather who actually sketch south korea to go to north korea he actually defect north between the korean war and became a really really famous you know government official in north korea under kim il sung and you know this kind of family ties to north korea for years had to be kept as a secret you know within his south korean family so that's one of the things that i think is very important now and the north korean references the film is making i think is directly tied to some of the things that are going on the clandestine kind of politics and people living with terror you know with this obviously very real secret you know having the ties with nigeria so those are the things that are absolutely wonderful. and it is also important to note that. in her himself he this is pretty open about spending a lot of this college years not going to college but also working as a pro sorry now working by participating in a lot of pro democracy protests and anyone who knows anything about the history of modern korea knows that that was an insanely dangerous thing to do even if tens of thousands of people were compelled to come to the streets to. basically demand a better life and a more transparent government but i think that if we want to sort of go back to the class critique that is at the heart of parasite. i think something that you can see through out bonds who work is that he usually gives you a class a group of the haves and a group of the have nots and what he wants to do ultimately is to complicate those ideas i've seen a little bit of critique about how basically parasite is not like some marxists propaganda where we're supposed to go out and kill all of the rich people because the point of it is not the point is that they are also human beings and as much as we sympathize with the poor family. you know what they have privileges that they haven't really examined themselves because there are always people who are worse off than you and i think one of the things that makes parasites register so strongly is that not only do you have to confront a class hierarchy that you live in but then also examine oh like am i the worse off person in the world probably not. so this isn't any good really powerful in that sense this is a really good point to play a little clip from the film where. one of the songs kevin the rich from according to everything that is not his name but that is the privilege of being rich you can call your help whatever you want to because the so kevin is the tutor to the daughter of the rich family and they kind of put up romantically and they are looking out onto a beautiful got a party and this is what happens next have a look. pushed . them go and. turns on. their. child to. go trolling a. that's a coming about a sport that attention i have to share this with. ava du vernay tweeted this and it's an award have been so many with the parasite costs and she just says well i'm worth everything look at these faces a cost that directive that what a sight i'm wondering is this a moment for our cinema all thaw international cinema where people can get beyond the fact that the not watching in the language they used to watching film no big films in and that's english and seeing something here that could be a trend i'm thinking of roma from last year which is a really well and they have another one parasite again i mean both beautiful beautiful films there's no reason why they should not be watched by many many people other than the fact that they're not in english that's ahead yeah i think you know we're celebrating the historical fact that it's the 1st you know south korean film to be nominated even for international and that's picture and so you know i won the palme d'or for south korean film for about an hour and yet so the actors have not got gotten any individual nominations right so i think we're where programming but then i think there is still a kind of like oh they're all kind of the same people can't really tell their you know and. i do have that coming and i do think yes it would have been nice for the south korean actors to actually be nominated but at the same time to suit film that actually relies on on sample acting you know which is very different from obviously all the kind of films that usually get nominated for best actor awards you know i mean those are going to. pick soon you know claims that actually has focus a lot of time and just one central character so's you know again i do think that there is a legitimate reason to be a. you know concern but i don't think you can get to a level of you know intense frustration or you know that there is this kind of you know systematic injustice that has actually been. perpetrated against them that i'm this month but even if you look at like i said international movie that has been nominated for oscars you know roberta beneath me won an oscar marion cotillard won and off care. and a lot of time you know i mean they're they get i mean you know 8090 percent screen time so i don't think that you know i don't know if you look at a lot of women that's i would say that that's an ensemble piece but they have you know someone that you know they have at best actress and best supporting actress nominations so if we look at the span of all the kind of films that are nominated we're actors are nominated there are ensemble films historically and hollywood you know but again even in korea it was when the awards season came in well. you know they do receive a couple of recognitions but i mean you know it wasn't as if someone was swept the entire. categories of you know again the best actor even in korea so it's it's very difficult to say that you know there was this kind of a you know official kindness nothing going on within the context of awards ceremony so that's you know again might again you want to. i don't think anyone think that there is a sort of like official snubbing i think that you can definitely say that when we talk about best actor best actress nominations what tends to happen are people who are already pretty famous you know and even if they're not particularly great movies the fact that they're any movie star probably has a lot more to do with. anything else i mean a renee zellweger getting a oscar for sorry getting a best actress nomination for playing judy garland this year i just wanted to jump in and put in one really quick correction to work that he had said it wasn't to rome last year that won it was green book so. but. it does not work best director of the oscars yeah yeah yeah. i was talking about romo winning best director which is unusual for a foreign film now if i'm wrong and you should please correct me i'm happy to stand corrected but that's what i was referencing and which i do believe was the case i'm going to get in trouble now on twitter if i'm wrong all right let's move on thank you thank you the of for joining in that and if i've got it wrong i will actually correct myself and the team is now fact checking me as i speak i let me share this with you this is from the director of power site and. moved me a lot because i love reading subtitles i don't care about subtitles but it does have an impact on how well a film does is have a listen to the director parasite. he's $100.00 inches a little bit in the time but we do know that having to do for single men and then what each of you says once you overcome the one inch tall barrier of subtitles you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. and one last year at the oscars for best foreign language film now and best director which is what i was referencing all right so we're almost at the end of this particular i'm packing up our site this episode of the stream briefly now and say we're talking about this film in very complementary way is that is there anything where you thought oh i could just change this so and i think that gives you pause for the film go ahead. actually maybe not hawes for the fall and perhaps i thought the film in terms of gender was really great i do think that when the awards came around and the women didn't get to really say much during the acceptance speech which made me think what is going on in terms of gender here right because our hospital was really amazing in representing the women where i thought i really relate to them but then they didn't really speak much during any of the words or my so that was taken gave me pause. yeah i think that they're kind of interesting single and i think. american movies and actually television series is going through a kind of transmission you know for several years now we've been looking at a lot of these dystopian films to kind of as a replacement. allegories for social inequalities that are actually a direct product of a liberal obviously you know capitalism and you have to rely on obviously the south korean films or you know i mean spanish language films or even a black film which is you know jordan peels us to talk directly about the social inequalities that do exist i think that there is an interesting kind of parallels that are being drawn out here so i just want to point that out and going to actually respond to something nancy had that about just briefly because i'm right at the end of the show that. she had done something about how there was sort of equal gender treatment in the movie and i do wish that bond seward of kind of had a tendency to kill off his if he male characters had a sort of what i guess is a bit of a spoiler yeah no it's really i guess a little bit but also i believe the same number of men may also have ended up in a similar situation and i believe we should probably stop talking before her in a film for people who have yet to say i know this is not the last you hear about power aside it's a whole season. came in that scene thank you for unpacking a film for us that's all the time we have for today our site is still playing in select theaters i saw some streaming online scene x. time and so here. i. al-jazeera tells the story of thousands of algerians forced by colombian affronts to adopt obscene family names. words this is so 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