The heavy rain that destroyed both of Park Da-song’s birthday camping plan and the home of rather-poor Park family’s semi-basement apartment in a critically and publicly acclaimed movie ‘Parasite’ plays a huge role in the movie while symbolizing natural disasters’ impact. The director Park Joon Ho is famous for his vigilant takes on various societal issues and the latest film ‘Parasite’ is one of the many examples. So, while we are here, I would like to recommend his work to my fellow ambassadors. 

Moving on. The premise of the movie: “Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.” in which unemployed Kim family takes a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, by ingratiating themselves into their lives and getting entangled in an unexpected incident.

Almost ⅔ of the film, a thunderous pouring rain puts the mood of the movie to a dark one rather than the comical tone that ‘Parasite’ always presented. Audience starts to sense the turn of events and danger in the color of the sky. That rain, in one night, flooded the whole street that is filled of semi-basement apartments that caused the Kim family to spend the night in a school gym with thousands of evacuees while it ruined the long-awaited trip for Da-song’s birthday. 

That rain impacted each family on a very different scale: Park family cancelling their special trip and Kim family losing their home. But, not only that, how the rich and the poor perceived the rain on the next day was almost like a salt on a wound, in which a rich family’s Park Yeon-gyo celebrates how the rain turned to their own benefit while Kims struggle to find a pair of clothes to wear from the local donation. The director Park Joon Ho perfectly depicted the reality of how climate catastrophes are heightening the already existing class tension as the people who produces the most and disproportionate amount of waste end up with no cost while most modest families like Kim end up bearing the bonk of the disaster.