Why is parasitic rated r

Exploring themes of poverty, morality, and honesty, Parasite has bitten off a lot. It takes some time to chew it — over two hours — but does manage to get most of the meal down. The Kim family is eminently sympathetic, even as their behavior becomes increasingly immoral.

Their journey from starvation to success is fascinating and will give audiences lots to think about. The contrast between them and the prosperous Park family is clear, and surprisingly, this is done without painting the Parks as villains, greedy fools, or heartless members of the upper class. If the director had toned down the drinking and cussing and some of the blood, it might have earned a PG rating. That in mind, both the swearing and alcohol consumption are used purposefully to highlight differences in class and culture, and I think the movie would be less realistic without them.

Unless you also decided that sixteen ounces of Coke Zero was a good idea….. Violence: A character gets his head trapped in a noose. A person is pushed down some stairs and dies. The rating in the U. The basic definition of material that could be offensive is material that is sexual or violent in nature, or that contains nudity or violent language.

The most interesting differences between the U. In the case of "Parasite," both cultures may perhaps agree on issues relating to sex, nudity, and violence. But I think the greatest difference in registering objectionable content was probably language. Korean swearing is unlimited and creative. The American seven words, are: sorry, folks, I can't write them here. When I was working in Korea, one time our office staff discussed the different styles of swearing, and I learned that Korean swearing contains a lot of variety.

In Korea, you have "SOB," "offspring of a dog," but you can also say offspring of pig, horse, insect, rat, and all kinds of things. The poor must scheme, ask for help to get by, but as soon as anyone gets the upper hand, they attempt to crush the poor and stop them from advancing. Why are we like this? Is it possible to change, become more aware of suffering and needs of fellow humans? While clever and often likable, most characters here are satirical in nature.

They are capable of unsavory deeds, though there are consequences. Brief scenes of intense gore. Stabbing, skewering. Characters fight and hit each other with blunt objects. Lots of blood. A fall down concrete stairs. A character gets a concussion; another is briefly trapped in a noose. Characters die. A character suddenly swipes all the food and drink from a table, smashing it on the floor.

A man grabs his wife by her shirt in pretend anger. A married couple engages in sexual activity on a couch; he touches her breast, and she touches his crotch, moaning and saying sex-related things. A young man kisses a teen girl. A young woman removes her underwear in the back of a car. A man grabs his wife's buttock. Strong sex talk.

Multiple uses of "f--k," "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," "piss," "screwed," "scumbag," and "oh God," all translated in the English subtitles. An entire family drinks heavily in one scene, whiskey and other kinds of liquor. Some of them become slurring drunk. Young character smokes cigarettes.

A staggeringly drunk character urinates in an alleyway. Mentions of hard drugs meth, cocaine. It's alternately funny, shocking, and thoughtful, but it's also quite mature. Expect a few scenes of extremely strong violence, blood, and gore, with stabbing, fighting, hitting with blunt objects, and death.

One character gets trapped in a noose, and another is knocked down concrete stairs. English subtitles include multiple uses of "f--k," "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," and more.

A married couple gets frisky on a couch; he rubs her breast, and she grabs his crotch. There's also kissing, plus other sexual situations and sex-related talk. One scene shows an entire family drinking heavily and getting drunk; a young woman smokes cigarettes, and a staggeringly drunk man urinates in an alleyway. Add your rating See all 30 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 66 kid reviews. Through a friend, Ki-woo gets the chance to tutor Park Da-hye Jung Ziso , the daughter of a wealthy family, even though he's not a student.

Three people sneak out from under a table as a man and a woman sleep on a nearby sofa; one man is nearly caught when the sleeping people are awakened. A man outside an apartment sprays a thick fumigation fog that enters the apartment and causes the people inside to cough. A man flicks a stinkbug off a dining table. A woman calls her husband a cockroach and he raises his fist to hit her; he breaks several bottles when he swings his arm back and they both laugh he does not hit her.

Two men in a street yell at each other and shove each other. A woman swings a rope with a ball at the end and releases it; it sails through the air and we hear glass break in the distance. A woman picks up suction cup arrows from the floor and the wall of a home where a young boy plays with them and he later shoots a couple of arrows into a room and his mother yells at him. A young man wakes up in a hospital bed after brain surgery and laughs uncontrollably as police question him.

A man says that a woman has TB and another woman panics with the news. A man talks about the way people smell and says that people that ride the subway smell a certain way.