Comparing Viridiana with Parasite

Just a brief follow-up to yesterday's post on Bunuel's 1961 film, Viridiana: I think this film be great to watch alongside Parasite (in fact, it's possible I was drawn to re-view Viridiana by one of the reviews of Parasite), in that both involve a group of the disposed taking over and pretty much destroying the operations of an upper-class household. Of course there are major differences in every aspect of each film - it's not as if Parasite was a "remake" of Viridiana, but setting the 2 side by side and thinking about the similarities and differences, in presentation, plot development, and significance, would be a great thought exercise. I think the major difference, of course, is that in Viridiana we see nothing of the lives of those in what has been called the "Beggars' Banquet" scene, outside of their lives in the shelter of the estate household; in Parasite, we have a greater degree of sympathy for the working-class characters, and their revolt feels like a justified revolution of an entire social class; the "revolution" of the characters in Viridiana is far more ambiguous and inscrutable: Is theirs a justified uprising of the poor and oppressed? Is the opposing for the ruling class, or the established church? what about the prejudice and inequity within Bunuel's class of "beggars"? Many strands to unravel there, but the two films offer a real commentary on each other and on the class tensions and conflicts, some 60 years and two cultures apart.