The central idea of the movie Parasite is “Hierarchy”. Through differences between the Kim and the Park family, we can take a peek at the two extreme sites on the pyramid of hierarchy. By what are upper class and the bottom defined? The gap between rich and poor might be the most obvious one. However, this movie tells way more than that.
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu proposed the idea of “four kinds of capital” in his book The Forms of Capital (1986). In social institution, a person can obtain resources in diverse ways, which is called “capital”. We’ll further analyze this movie in Bourdieu’s theoretical frame.
