One of the things I like about this website is that there are people I’ve been following on here for so long that it has been literal years since we shared a single fandom thing in common and basically never talk and yet when I see their posts, another gifset for a show I don’t watch and have no context for, I still feel a friendly warmth like – hey, glad you’re out there still enjoying random shit. Here’s some content on the niche thing I’m hyper fixating on in return.
YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II via Instagram
“Can anybody tell it was my first time being nominated? Lol Nah?? Ok cool! 🤣 One thing 2020 taught me is that Nothing is Promised. Don’t forget to Celebrate your milestones and all the moments in between! “Oh Sh*t!!” 🤯”
‘Do you fall in love often?’
Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via luthienne)
While working on the film, Bong Joon-ho called Parasite a “staircase movie”. It is an upstairs-downstairs film that explores every available rung on the ladder of class aspirationalism. The movie starts in the half-basement apartment of the Kim family, with windows that barely peer above the ground. Half-basements are distinctively Korean spaces in urban centers like Seoul, and while the Kim house is firmly below ground, it still “wants to believe it’s above the ground.”
A story about two homes — the upstairs family and the downstairs — reveals yet another lurking underneath. The original housekeeper confesses that her husband has been stowed away in a secret bunker underneath the Park house for four years. The Kims are shocked by the state of his living conditions.
In the end of the film, the father becomes the new resident in the bunker, hiding from the police in the last place they’d look to find him. The Parks move out, only to be replaced by a German family. The particularities may have changed, but everyone’s station has remained the same. There would always be a wealthy person to live upstairs, just as there would be another poor person positioned beneath them. - by E. Alex Jung
Parasite | 기생충 | Gisaengchung (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho, production design by Lee Ha Jun