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Parasite: Violence spelled with a capital "RED"

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When I first saw the movie poster of "Parasite", I assumed that it was a horror movie. There was something terribly uncanny about it, with all the people staring straight into the camera and yet their eyes were censored. We aren't given a clue to their emotions, their face stoned and seemingly unflinching, as if in the next second something would erupt. Watching the movie made me realise that this movie wasn't horror, it was something worse -- It was shamelessly violent. Upon the death of his wife, the unstable man bashed someone's head in with a rock, stabbed someone in the heart, got skewered himself with a barbeque pick, followed by the father killing the seemingly innocent head of the park family. That's fucking extreme and the movie spares no expense in protraying the scene as violently as possible; Unnecesarily bringing the stone down upon Ki-Woo's head for the second time, the violent tension between him drawing the knife till his first stabbin