Story: A poor unemployed family play out a well laid plan to secure jobs for themselves in a wealthy household , only to unleash a series of unexpected events.
Review: The Kim family lives in a semi-basement and struggles to keep food on the table. They take on odd jobs for cash like folding pizza boxes, and they rely on unprotected wi-fi networks and street-cleaning pesticides to keep their home insect free.
A poor unemployed family play out a well laid plan to secure jobs for themselves in a wealthy household , only to unleash a series of unexpected events.
Ki-woo, the son, is gifted a scholar’s stone or suseok by a friend and given a recommendation for a tutoring job with a wealthy family. Ki-woo and his sister Ki-jung forge credentials for the job, and thus begins the long-con that sees each member of the Kim family infiltrating the upper-class Park family one-by-one.
Ki-jung begins working for the parks under the apperance of an art-therapy teacher. Ki-taek, the father, begins working as the Park family after the Kims have their previous chauffeur removed. Similarly, Chung-sook, the mother, replaces Moon-gwang, the housekeeper who has served the home longer than the Park’s have even lived there. Chung-sook is framed as deceiving the family by hiding a dangerous illness. The real deception is carried out by the Kims, and works flawlessly.
Once the entire Kim family is employed in the Park household, the lower-class con-artists begin to assume more and more of this fabricated identity of wealth. They take the affluent home as their own while the Parks are away and that’s when Moon-gwang shows back up and everything changes.
Rating: 4.5/5
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