Hoping that Parasite will bring more recognition to the other works of Bong Joon-ho

The latest feature from Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (2019) has been the topic of much interest and discussion and has, I think, raised public awareness of this terrific South Korean writer/director; Parasite may well win an Oscar award and perhaps viewers will check out some of Joon-ho's other features (The Host, Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, Okja - the most accessible - and especially Mother). Parasite is a genre-defying work that starts of as somewhat of a comic caper film: a family of 4 living in squalor in an impoverished Seoul neighborhood see a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. The teenage son gets a job as an English tutor to a high-school girl in a family of the Korean uber-rich, the father working as a CEO of a huge electronics firm, such as LG. Through devious means, the family members scheme to get the mother in the wealthy family to fire each of her servants (housekeeper, chauffeur, etc.) and to hire one of the family members (father, mother, daughter) - though she thinks the new hires are merely recommended friends, not family members. Up to this point, it's kind of funny - but then the story takes significant turn, which I won't divulge, but in effect it involves other Korean workers living in the sub-basement of the house of the wealthy and various interactions, many of them scary and brutal, between the workers and the super-rich, leading to an extremely gory conclusion. OK, so the delineation between the good and bad is ambiguous and blurred, but the obvious discrepancies of wealth within in this one prosperous country are vivid and horrendous and not really surprising; the film avoids the fate of over-simplification and heavy-handed messaging through its own wit and self-awareness: At various points in the developing story, the son/English tutor remarks "It's all so metaphoric!," which it is - but by saying so he invites us to share the director's vision. It's obvious that we're meant to sympathize (if not identify) with the impoverished, opportunistic family - at least up to a point. In the end, after the violent denouement, the question we're left with is: Which were the parasites?