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(2019)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language, some violence and sexual content
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A married couple engages in heavy petting, with the woman's breast briefly visible, nipple is not shown. Takes place in a living room with hidden people nearby, listening and aware of the sex play. No male nudity is shown.
  • A woman wearing a dress takes off her underwear in the backseat of a car. No nudity is seen.
  • A man grabs a woman's butt briefly.
  • There is some talk about sex in a couple scenes but nothing too explicit
  • Ki-Woo and Da-Hye kiss in a couple scenes. One very passionate kissing scene. No nudity
  • In one scene, a woman is seen taking a bath. She is nude, but nothing is shown beyond shoulders and knees, and the scene is not inappropriate.

Violence & Gore

  • The movie is violent towards the end. Gore-wise there are a few scenes with blood.

Profanity

  • There is mild profanity throughout, however "Fuck" is said a couple dozen times in the subbed version.
  • Fuck is shown on the subtitles for non Korean speakers, other than that the profanity is very mild.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • During a flood, a young woman smokes a cigarette while sitting on an overflowing toilet.
  • Characters are shown drunk.
  • While role playing, a woman asks her husband to buy her drugs.
  • This is talk about firing someone from their job as it is theorized that the worker was using drugs in their bosses car. The scene is comedic.
  • There is use of cigarets, drug references and alcohol use, but drugs are not a theme at all.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Although it has humor in it, Parasite has a dark tone and some frightening moments.
  • The "ghost" scene contains briefly frightening imagery.
  • The film is generally based on the differences of poor to wealthy groups of people.
  • A few scenes in the film are extremely intense and frightening. The final confrontation is extremely tense and scary.
  • A former housemaid enters the house at a rainy night which leads to many frightening scenes.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A young man is slammed in the head with a large rock offscreen. He is seen on the ground and a large pool of blood forms under him. Then, the rock is thrown at the top of his head onscreen while he lies on the floor.
  • There is a violent outburst in which multiple people are stabbed. There is some blood and three people are killed. One character creepily walks around with lots of blood on their face.
  • There is intense violence towards the end of the film. Nothing too graphic but still pretty shocking. A woman is kicked down a staircase and hits her head which ultimately leads to her death. A man stabs a woman in her chest. Some blood is visible. A woman and a man struggle on the floor until the woman impales the man and kills him. A unarmed man is stabbed with a knife and killed instantly.
  • A man smashes his head repeatedly against a button causing a large cut on his forehead which covers his face in blood
  • A man is caught around the neck with a circular wire frame by another man, which violently pulls him back several times as he tries to run away. No blood is shown but the jolting of his body and suffocating sounds are intense.
  • At the end, there's an intense massacre at a birthday party. It's extremely shocking and unexpected.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The flood scene can be emotionally intense.
  • The ending is very emotional, and more than likely will stick with you for a while.
  • A young boy sees an old man with glowing eyes in the middle of the night, and believes he saw a ghost. The scene is shot in a scary manner, but due to the audience's recent discovery of who the man is, some may find the scene even more frightening.
  • Woman falls down the stairs and gets a severe concussion that later leads to her death. Very disturbing scene overall.
  • The birthday scene is very shocking and very intense.

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