Parasite January 20 at Vernon Towne Cinema

On January 20th Okanagan Screen Arts Society will be showing “Parasite” at the Vernon Towne Cinema.

The story and screen play are by Bong Joon Ho who says the idea for this film was inside his brain “like a parasite” since 2013. Lead actor, Kang-ho Song (Song Kang-Ho) and Bong Joon Ho have been friends for 20 years and decided to do this film together as a joint venture.

The premise of the story follows the Kim family, mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung.

They are a poor family living in a small basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. To get by, in addition to having jobs, the family perpetrates minor scams. Despite not having a university education, which is Ki-woo’s dream to get out of poverty, he is chosen by his university student friend, Min, to take over his job tutoring Park Da-hye who is from a wealthy family.

Ki-woo expands the scam further by recommending a professional art therapist (his sister, Ki-jung) for the Park’s adolescent son, Da-song. Ki-woo begins to fall in love with Park Da-hye and envisions himself becoming part of the family.

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The scam begins to include the entire Kim family who plan to replace the existing Park family servants by using themselves under assumed names and arranging for the real servants to be fired.

The question then becomes how far the Kim family will take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks.

IMDB photo Park Dong-ik (Lee Sun-Kyun) and Park Yeon-Kyo (Cho Yeo Jeong)

Showtimes at 5:15 & 7:45 p.m. Pre-show intros by resident Film maker, Matt McDowell and Scott John, local film and animation producer. Enjoy live music in the lobby before the early show courtesy of Les Copeland. Cash wine bar open for both shows.

Advance tickets available at the Towne Cinema box office and Expressions of Time bookstore.