Sunday, March 1, 2020

Bong Joon-Ho's PARASITE 2019

To see Kang-Ho as Daddy once again
Is comforting, but as one e'er should know
He's no sweet Mr. Roger's type, as when
A Chekhov's Smell goes off! But there you go.
What's played for laughs at first of course gets dark
(Though still quite beautiful). And then that rock,
Itself a character, comes through to park
Itself right at the movie's heart. No shock
That Yeo-Jeong Jo steals ev'ry doe-eyed scene
She's in, or that Ho found a window frame
To be the vis'ual anchor, cracked and mean
Or so expansive that it seems a shame 
It's never shattered. Just too on the nose?
Perhaps! My love for Bon-Joon Ho just grows...

2 comments:

  1. Fancy windows really do beg to be shattered. There’s something so cathartic about it.

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