Power to naivety ?

Screenshot from “Parasite” (2019) : subject, direction, dramatization and co-production by Bong Joon-ho.

You maybe wonder that a small Country – South Korea – successfully emerging among Eastern Nations could produce a film – even multi-award winning at Cannes 2019[1] - revealing that the secret of the Power is the naivety : and, more over, you wonder as the film has been thought, shot and presented less than a year before of the present Covid19 pandemic, begun by an unknown virus which however belongs to the already known viral stock of ‘Coronavirus’.

It’s quite funny, because the film exposes a nice reasoning, not so far from truth, about the capacity of naive people to grasp the Power and so widely spread the real face of naivety, not at all soft or indolent if not for their basic laziness.

The awarded director Bong Joon-ho competence has been to point out the habit of the Power, which is not to belong to one class, or caste, but to be - without any ‘viral’, or biological, cause – seductive enough to grasp people, dandling their weakness, in a mental cannibalism and so shifting out of control and, sometimes unfortunately, with the worst consequences.

There’s room for an useful crossroads, into one’s own competence to single out the emotions, which are usually split with an only compensatory value, as the vital connection for a benefit-oriented thinking.

There isn’t so any irony in this well done and multi-award winning film : however, as a direction coming from a growing Country, we couldn’t expect but a soft warning.

                                             Marina Bilotta Membretti / Cernusco sul Naviglio – September 3, 2020

[1] At the ‘Cannes Film Festival’, 72° edition 2019 “Parasite” won the 'Palme d'Or', other than awards as the best film, the best foreign film, the best director, the best original script.