The return of Bong Joon-Ho! At least to Western Audiences like myself. There could very well be other films between "Okja" and this I have not heard of.
I enjoyed "Snowpiercer" but thought "Okja" left something to be desired. But a story about the poor infiltrating the lives of the rich? I love to see it.
It gets a little batshit at the top of the hour before lurking a bit more into "Oh boy, we have to deal with this now." After the Kim family is tangled up with the former housekeeper, who was also hiding secrets under her employer's nose.
You get a serious feel for everyone's personality despite it being a cool 2 hours long with multiple characters, though of course, some get more attention than others.
You notice that Mrs. Park is continually using the family for more and more things she really should hire some handymen to do instead of a lone older woman. The Park family grows into the obliviousness that many rich people take akin to a drug after being relatively reasonable in the first half.
It's only batshit insane if you've never seen a South Korean movie before, but it's still pretty insane and well worth the watch.
Admire the layers of acting everyone in the Kim family had, I especially admire Park So-Dam as Kim Ki-jung.
This must be a shoe-in for Best International Film.
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