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Chapter 420 A movie that makes your spine shiver

Everyone in the screening room had high expectations for Li Yu's "Parasite".

Art films with an investment of over 70 million yuan are rare in China.

In China, art films are often equated with low cost, because art films are not box office hits.

How could an ordinary director dare to spend huge amounts of money to take such a risk?

Only someone like Li Yu, who has already achieved success and has his own capital, can afford to play this kind of game.

On the screen in the screening room, the story quietly began.

The protagonist's family of four lives in the famous pigeon cage on Hong Kong Island.

When the scene was cut, there was a front shot of a pigeon cage building, and the buildings on all sides were tall and dilapidated.

The sun is clearly hanging in the sky, but the sunlight is blocked by the high-density buildings. Just looking at the picture makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.

The protagonist's family of four lives in a house of less than 20 square meters in the building. The family's eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are all solved in this house of less than 20 square meters.

When the family eats, two people have to sit on the bed because the space is too small.

As the plot progresses, everyone learns that the protagonist's family of four have no proper jobs and can only do part-time and temporary jobs every day.

By chance, through the introduction of a classmate, the son of the family became a tutor for a young lady from a wealthy family.

Two families that would never have had any intersection collided so dramatically.

After seeing the wealthy conditions of the rich man's family, the son used all kinds of conspiracies and tricks to bring the whole family over.

The father played by Tony Leung Ka Fai works as a driver, the mother works as a nanny, and the daughter works as a tutor for a wealthy family's young master.

Oh, and they got all their jobs by cheating.

For example, a daughter deliberately left her underwear in a rich man's car in order to frame the rich man's driver and make the rich man mistakenly believe that the driver used his car to fool around with women.

Her goal was to get the rich man to fire the driver, and then recommend his father to take over the driver's job.

The evil of human nature can be said to be displayed vividly.

Fan Xiaopang is an actor and she has read the script of "Parasite" many times.

She knew the plot of the movie, but the impact of the text was far less than that of the movie.

Even though she knew the plot, she was still angry at the protagonist's family in the movie.

She thought the protagonist's family was really abominable.

What did the nanny and the driver do to offend anyone? They were doing a good job, but because their family members were unemployed, they used all kinds of dirty tricks to throw dirty water on the driver and the nanny.

It just so happened that the role she played in the movie was a wealthy lady, and she was the one who was fooled around by the protagonist's family in the early stages.

At this point, she felt a bit of empathy with the rich lady, and she hoped to see what would happen to the protagonist's family after being exposed.

Do Mr. Han, Mr. Wang and other bigwigs think that Li Yu has portrayed the poor as too bad?

Is poverty the original sin? Is poverty the reason why people do anything?

Look at the rich family in the movie, they are pure and clean like naive people.

They were completely unaware when the protagonist's family framed their driver and nanny.

Isn't this too much of a whitewash for the rich?
Li Yuke is the person who wrote "The Sun" and "The Vanishing Lover".

Wouldn't it be possible that this film, which cost 70 million yuan to make, would not be of poor quality?

As they continued reading, they discovered that the biggest irony was the setting of the naive rich and the unscrupulous poor.

Li Yu buried all his big moves in the second half of the movie.

It is said that knowledge and hard work can change your destiny.

But in the movie, Li Yu satirizes this so-called famous saying all the time.

The protagonist's family is smart and willing to work hard. Without wisdom, they would never have been able to enter the rich man's house.

If they are not willing to work hard, their work will not satisfy the rich.

But no matter how hard they tried, they still couldn't turn things around.

The rich family looks stupid and is kept in the dark about everything, but they are getting richer and richer.

The young master of a wealthy family has no artistic talent at all, but because the rich man has money, he can hire the best teachers.

They can tell everyone that their sons can become artists in the future, and many people will believe them because they are rich.

Look at the daughter of the protagonist’s family. She has artistic talent and is very talented.

Just by taking a look at the painting drawn by the rich young master, she could analyze the rich young master's psychological problems through the painting.

However, despite her ability and artistic talent, her family was poor and could not afford to support her in pursuing art or sending her to art school, so no company wanted her and she could only resort to deception to become a tutor for a rich man's young master.

A person with absolutely no talent is recognized as an artist just because he has money.

A talented and capable person, because he has no money and comes from a poor family, no one will want him to be an artist, let alone make a living with his craft.

Let’s look at the kindness of wealthy families.

The father, played by Tony Leung Ka Fai, said: "They asked for money but they were very kind."

His wife, the mother in the movie, said: "It's not that I am kind because I am rich, but that I am kind because I am rich. If I were rich, I would also be kind."

They have had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, and they don't need to lie or cheat for a job like the protagonist's family did. Of course they can be kind.

Moreover, in the second half of the film, Li Yu uses various small plots to satirize the wealthy family for being kind on the surface but hypocritical in reality.

For example, on the first day that the father, played by Tony Leung Ka Fai, worked as a driver, the rich man seemed kind on the surface, but he actually prepared a cup of coffee, but deliberately did not drink it in order to see if the coffee would spill when the vehicle turned.

Once the coffee was spilled, his job was gone.

There are many such careful tricks.

Li Yu also created many new short stories.

For example, the rich fired all the 40-year-old "old men" in the company and recruited a group of younger and more hardworking graduates.

The rich man hypocritically found a high-sounding excuse, saying that those 40-year-old people had received more than ten years of high-quality training in his company and were all capable of standing on their own feet.

He is not an old man who is fired from the company. He is giving back to the society by releasing a group of elites with outstanding abilities into the society, allowing them to enter more companies and drive the development of those companies.

For example, when the company was rushing to complete a project, he called on employees to work overtime voluntarily, saying that overtime was entirely voluntary and the company would not force them. However, those who understood would understand.

Li Yu personally feels that "Parasite" does have a hint that poor people are bad.

They claim to satirize rich people, but in fact they satirize poor people much more harshly than they do rich people.

Li Yu believes that this shortcoming should be made up and that the rich must be severely satirized.

The new plot arranged by Li Yu is very shocking and gives people a strong sense of immersion.

Giving back talent to society and voluntarily working overtime, these ironic plots made everyone present feel very involved.

What’s even more ironic is that the rich man has done so many evil things, but just because he is rich, he has not received any condemnation.

On the contrary, he is a great 'people' entrepreneur.

The protagonist's family lied and cheated in order to have enough food and clothing and to get a job.

Even if the damage their deception causes to society is less than one-tenth of that caused by the rich, just because they have no money and are poor, they are the cockroaches and rats of society.

On the surface, the protagonist's family became "parasites" of the wealthy family through various means.

The seemingly kind-hearted wealthy family is actually a "parasite" that sucks the blood of countless people in the entire society.

After watching the entire movie, everyone except Li Yu felt a chill down their spine.

(End of this chapter)