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      The South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has called his latest movie, Parasite, a "sad comedy." Ki-taek (played by the formidable South Korean actor Song Kang-ho), the patriarch of the working-class Kim family, lives with his wife, Chung-sook, and their adult son and daughter, Ki-woo and Ki-jung, in a half-basement apartment redolent of sewage and thick, hand-washed socks that refuse to dry. Bong, a talented cartoonist, is known for his obsessive storyboarding, and Parasite, like his previous films, deploys the grotesque, hyperbolic elements of a comic strip in service of social commentary. [Extracted from the article]
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