Once again reflecting on social classes and bending genre to his will, Bong Joon-ho lives up to the hype of his Palme d'Or winning tragicomedy, Parasite.
Bong Joon-ho treats genre like Dr. Frankenstein does body parts, resulting in movies that don't resemble other movies, yet somehow still live and breathe. Bong has tinkered with genre from some of his earliest films, such as Memories of Murder, a combination of a grim police procedural with the pratfalls of incompetent detectives, to his international breakthrough, The Host, which deconstructed monster movie tropes by grafting on social commentary and a heavy dash of family dysfunction.