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For any copyright, please send me a message. When Bong Joon-ho was in college, he worked as a tutor for the middle school-aged son of a strict, rich family, getting a glimpse into a luxurious world far beyond his own. It was through this job, all those decades ago, that he first dreamt up the idea for Parasite, his Palme d’Or–winning film about a poor family that scams its way into the lives of a wealthy family. “I imagined what would happen if I just [brought] in my friends one by one,” the South Korean filmmaker said, via his English translator, Sharon Choi, in a recent interview at the Whitby Hotel. (Bong speaks English, but mostly responded to interview questions in Korean.) The job may have inspired an instant masterpiece that is captivating global audiences, but Bong didn’t last very long as a tutor. “I got fired after just two days because I talked to that boy a lot!” he says, bursting into laughter. “Great conversation with the boy.” Bong has made seven feature films, each one singular and gut-churning, outlandish on the surface, with layers of clever social commentary brimming beneath. No one makes movies like he does—not like Barking Dogs Never Bite, his 2000 feature debut about the blowout after a frustrated man kills his neighbor’s dog; not like Snowpiercer, his 2013 thriller about citizens living on a manic, doomed train; and not like Okja, his 2017 dystopian adventure movie about a girl trying to save her beloved super-pig. His loglines alone are unparalleled. Then there’s Parasite. Thematically there have been films similar to it, dramas that explore the lives of poor grifters who scam as a means of survival. But Bong’s interpretation of that theme explodes it entirely, crystallizing into an artistic tour de force that is both darkly funny and emotionally crushing. Parasite, which Bong cowrote with Jin Won Han, was the runaway success of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it was the first South Korean film to win the Palme d’Or. After the premiere, Bong and his cast (including longtime collaborator and Parasite star __Song Kang-ho __) received a lengthy standing ovation (five minutes by some accounts; eight by others). While the director was thrilled by the film’s reception, it was around midnight and he was so exhausted from the day’s events that his closing speech was brief: “Let’s all go home.” A show of modesty? Sure. But also: He and his cast were extremely hungry after a work-filled day that left little time for food. “If you check out the video [of the standing ovation], you can see me and the actors whispering to each other ‘I’m hungry, I’m hungry,’” he noted. His celebratory meal? “Bread,” he says, chuckling. So French. The Palme d’Or now rests on a bookshelf between his kitchen and h
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