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B1 Intermediate English 8:08 Educational

Parasite's Perfect Montage

Nerdwriter1 · 6,704,206 views · Added 1 month ago

Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

Difficulty

Subtitles (184 segments)

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that's a gun jeschica

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we don't the really annoys cause

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I'm gonna use action bong joon-ho is a

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filmmaker obsessed with rhythm you can

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sense it in all of his films but in his

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latest parasite he outdoes himself the

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tempo is perfectly calibrated as a

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viewer it almost feels like you're

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surfing the story the way the editing

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and camerawork sound design and music

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carries you from moment to moment

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I think bong knows that getting the

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pacing exactly right is the only way he

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can get his bold tonal shifts to work

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the result of such attention to rhythm

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is a totally immersive viewing

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experience the cadence of the whole

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movie is tightly controlled but there's

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a montage about 40 minutes in that

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distills his mastery into a perfect

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diamond of a sequence 60 shots almost

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exactly five minutes definitely my

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favorite five minutes of the year and I

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think it's worth taking a closer look at

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because it's really a thing of beauty

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first the setup the montage comes at the

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end of Act one of parasite after a poor

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family have almost successfully duped a

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rich family into hiring them all for

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service jobs the son becomes a tutor the

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daughter becomes an art teacher the

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father a driver and other attempting to

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bring the mother in as a housekeeper

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problem is that the existing housekeeper

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is well established and well liked by

01:34

the rich family so the poor family

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hatches a plan to remove her from the

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