Parasite (2019)

Jang Hye-jin: Chung Sook

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Quotes 

• Ki-taek : They are rich but still nice.

  Chung-sook, Ki-taek's wife : They are nice because they are rich.

• Ki-taek : Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them.

  Chung-sook, Ki-taek's wife : It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out by money.

• Chung-sook : If I had all this I would be kinder.

• Ki-taek : Acting is one thing. But this family is so gullible, right?

  Chung-sook : Especially the Madame.

  Ki-taek : You said it. She's so naive and nice. She's rich but she's still nice.

  Chung-sook : Not "Rich but still nice." Nice because she's rich, you know? Hell, if I had all this money, I'd be nice too!

• Kim Ki-jung : [about Moon-gwang]  She may look like a sheep, but inside, she's a fox. Sometimes she acts like she owns the house.

  Kim Ki-woo : Right. Of all the people in that house, she's lived there the longest. She was housekeeper to the architect Namgoong, but then she went on to work for this family. When the architect moved out, he introduced this woman to Park's family, telling them, "This is a great housekeeper, you should hire her".

  Chung-sook : So she survived a change of ownership.

  Kim Ki-woo : She won't give up such a good job easily.

  Kim Ki-jung : To extract a woman like that, we need to prepare well.

  Kim Ki-woo : Right, we need a plan.

  Park Da-hye : [cut to a scene with Ki-woo and Da-hye]  I want to eat peaches. I like peaches best.

  Kim Ki-woo : Why not ask for some?

  Park Da-hye : No peaches at our house. It's a forbidden fruit.

  Kim Ki-woo : [cut back to the Kims; referring to Moon-gwang]  So according to what Da-hye told me, she's got a pretty serious allergy to peaches. You know that fuzz on the peach skin? If she's anywhere near it, she gets a full body rash, has trouble breathing, asthma, a total meltdown!

  [Moon-gwang falls sick after Ki-woo puts peach fuzz on her] 

  Ki-taek : Anyway. I wasn't trying to eavesdrop, but her words came through clearly! So I couldn't help but...

  Kim Ki-woo : Cut, cut! Dad, your emotions are up to here. Bring them down to about there.

  Ki-taek : So I couldn't help but overhear...

  Kim Ki-woo : Keep it focused!

  Ki-taek : [to Mrs. Park]  What I'm trying to say is... it's just that, your housekeeper's voice is quite loud, you know?

  Park Yeon-kyo : I understand, it's all right. Just tell me, okay?

  Ki-taek : She said she got diagnosed with active tuberculosis and she was practically shouting over the phone, so upset she could barely control herself!

  Park Yeon-kyo : Tuberculosis? Come on...

  Ki-taek : It's true, she phoned someone saying she had active TB.

  Kim Ki-woo , Park Yeon-kyo : Do people still get TB?

  Kim Ki-woo : [cut back to the Kims]  Dad, back in the day, people used to buy Christmas Seals, right? Feels like a bygone era.

  Ki-taek : [cut back to Ki-taek and Mrs. Park]  But I saw it on the internet. Korea has the #1 rate of TB of all the OECD countries.

  Kim Ki-woo : [cut back to the Kims]  But she's still working, as if nothing's wrong - with a kid like Da-song in the house.

  Ki-taek : [cut back to Ki-taek and Mrs. Park]  So you've got a young kid like Da-song in the house, and a TB patient is doing dishes, cooking, spraying spittle...

  Park Yeon-kyo : Stop it, please!

  [cut to the Kims putting peach fuzz on Moon-gwang, causing her to fall sick again, and Ki-taek using chili sauce to fake Moon-gwang's blood] 

• Min : [giving a stone as a gift]  My grandpa has collected scholar's rocks since his cadet days. Now the annex, the study, every room in the house is filled with these things. But this stone here is said to bring material wealth to families...

  Kim Ki-woo : Min! This is so metaphorical.

  Ki-taek : For sure. It's a very opportune gift. Please relay our deepest thanks to your grandpa.

  Chung-sook : [complaining about the gift]  Food would be better.

• Chung-sook : Why didn't you put up a 'No Urinating' sign? I told you!

  Ki-taek : No, signs like that just make them piss even more.

• Moon-gwang : [after capturing the Kim family on video]  Are you some family of charlatans?

  Chung-sook : So, sis...

  Moon-gwang : Don't fucking call me sis, you filthy bitch! I'm gonna send this video to the madame, how about that?

  Ki-taek : No reception in the basement, right?

  Kim Ki-jung : The phone works fine.

  Kim Ki-woo : Ma'am, to be honest, the jobs we have here...

  Moon-gwang : Shut up! It's too late now! Let's all go to jail! We're fucking going down!

  Ki-taek : Lady, are you crazy? If they see that video, Mr. Park and his wife will be so shocked! What did those nice people ever do wrong? Why do this to them?

  Moon-gwang : Stop right there! Or I'll push the 'send' button.

• Park Yeon-kyo : It's ridiculous, right? Running around, trying to please a kid. He's not some kind of prince.

  Chung-sook : He's the youngest. It's common.

  Park Yeon-kyo : Please understand. Da-song is a bit... unwell. He's receiving trauma therapy and art therapy. There was an incident.

  Chung-sook : What incident?

  Park Yeon-kyo : Sis, you believe in ghosts, too? Da-song saw a ghost in the house when he was in 1st grade. He had a birthday party at home that day. Late that night, when everyone was sleeping, Da-song crept down to the kitchen and took the cake out. The whipped cream on that cake was amazing. Even in bed, he couldn't stop thinking about it. So Da-song was sitting, eating his cake... He screamed, and I ran downstairs, and he was all... his eyes rolled back in his head, convulsions, foam in his mouth. Have you ever seen a child have a seizure?

  Chung-sook : No.

  Park Yeon-kyo : They need 15-minute treatment, or they're done for. That's the time you have to reach an emergency room, 15 minutes.

• Kim Ki-woo : If Da-hye and I marry, we can bring in actors to be my mom and dad.

  Kim Ki-woo : [pointing at Ki-jung]  Look at her. She got so many jobs acting in weddings last year.

  Kim Ki-jung : I even caught the bouquet from a bitch I've never met. If you get the bouquet, they pay an extra $10.

  Chung-sook : That's how your acting got so good!

• Park Yeon-kyo : Listen, do you know how to make ram-don?

  Chung-sook : Ram-don?

  Park Yeon-kyo : Da-song likes ram-don more than anything.

• Chung-sook : If she wanted, she'd be a fucking great con artist.

  Ki-taek : Isn't her voice tone great? Takes after me.

• Park Yeon-kyo : Anyway, ram-don as soon as we walk in, okay?

  Chung-sook : Then you're almost here?

  Park Yeon-kyo : 8 minutes, according to the GPS.

  Chung-sook : You arrive in 8 minutes...

  Park Yeon-kyo : Start boiling the water right away!

  Chung-sook : [after getting off the phone]  What the hell is ram-don?

• Chung-sook : What's going on here?

  Moon-gwang : I know you must be startled. I would be too in this situation. But as two fellow workers... Right, Chung-sook?

  Chung-sook : How do you know my name?

  Moon-gwang : To be honest I'm still texting with the boy Da-song. I knew they were going camping, so I came today. I wanted to speak to you alone. Talking about. Don't worry, Chung-sook. I cut the wire on the CCTV by the gate. Nobody knows I came. Isn't that good, sis?

  Chung-sook : Don't call me sis!

• Ki-taek : [after learning that everyone in his family has the same smell]  So do we all need to use different soap, now?

  Kim Ki-woo : Dad, we'll need to use different laundry soap, too. And fabric softener.

  Chung-sook : You mean doing four separate loads of laundry each time?

  Kim Ki-jung : That's not it. It's the semi-basement smell. We need to leave this home to lose the smell.

  Ki-taek : Anyway, aren't we fortunate to be worrying about things like this?

  Kim Ki-woo : Sure.

  Ki-taek : In an age like ours, when an opening for a security guard attracts 500 university graduates. Our entire family got hired!

  Kim Ki-woo : That's right, Dad!

  Ki-taek : If we put our 4 salaries together? The amount of cash coming from that house into ours is immense! Let's offer a prayer of gratitude to the great Mr. Park. And to Min! Ki-woo, that friend of yours turned into such a fine guy, and thanks to him we're all...

• Moon-gwang : [capturing the Kim family on video]  You scumbag family. Husband?

  Ki-taek : Husband.

  Moon-gwang : Wife?

  Chung-sook : Yes.

  Moon-gwang : Son?

  Kim Ki-woo : Yes.

  Moon-gwang : Daughter?

  Kim Ki-jung : Daughter.

• Chung-sook : But how long has your husband been down here?

  Moon-gwang : Hold on a sec. 4 years?

  Geun-se : 4 years, 3 months and 17 days.

  Moon-gwang : Right, it's June now. Four years ago when Mr. Namgoong moved to Paris, in the time before Mr. Park's family moved in, I brought my husband down here. Many rich houses have secret bunkers, where you can hide in case North Korea attacks, or if creditors break in. But it seems Mr. Namgoong was a bit embarrassed about this, because he never mentioned it to Mr. Park's family. So only I know about it.

  Chung-sook : So that's how it happened. But now that I know, I've no choice but to call the police!

  Moon-gwang : No please, sis! As fellow members of the needy, please don't.

  Chung-sook : I'm not needy!

  Moon-gwang : But we're needy! We've no house, no money, only debts! Sis, please! Even after 4 years of hiding, those debt collectors won't give up. They're still searching for him, threatening to stab him.

  Chung-sook : You used loan sharks?

  Geun-se : It's all my fault. The Taiwan cake shop. My Taiwanese Wangshui castella shop went bust. I was overwhelmed by debt.

  Moon-gwang : Please take this.

  Chung-sook : What's that?

  Moon-gwang : It's not much, just a modest sum. But we'll send it to you every month. In return, just once every 2 days, please leave him some food. No no, just once a week. There's a refrigerator here. Just once a week.

  Chung-sook : You've got some nerve! I'm calling the police.

• Ki-taek : [referring to the Park family's house]  We live here now, don't we? Getting drunk in the living room.

  Kim Ki-woo : Right, we live here. Why not?

  Ki-taek : This is our home right now. It's cozy.

  Chung-sook : Cozy? Are you feeling cozy? Sure, but suppose Park walked through that door now. What about your dad? He'd run and hide like a cockroach. Kids, you know at our house, when you turn on the light, and the cockroaches scatter? You know what I mean?

  [Chung-sook starts laughing] 

  Ki-taek : I'm getting fucking tired of this. A cockroach?

  Chung-sook : Yeah.

  [Ki-taek suddenly grabs Chung-sook's shirt] 

  Kim Ki-woo : Huh? What's wrong?

  Kim Ki-jung : What's the matter?

  Kim Ki-woo : Dad, don't do that. You only live once.

  [Chung-sook and Ki-taek start laughing] 

  Kim Ki-jung : What the hell?

  Ki-taek : I fooled you! Didn't I?

  Kim Ki-woo : Jesus, Dad.

  Ki-taek : I fooled you too, Ki-woo? Did it look for real?

  Chung-sook : If it was for real, I'd fucking kill you.