An Analysis of the Artistic Values and Messages in the Movie "Parasite"

Abstract

Language is a tool to communicate with each other. For those who are just starting to learn English, they have to use means to make learning easier. Movies are one of the beneficial tools, not only for language learning, but also for providing useful educational values. The movie was chosen to analyze meaningful messages about the social classes in which we live. There are two core issues in the research paper for the movie “Parasite.” The message that the movie wants to send to viewers and criticism reflect the real society. The research method of the study is descriptive qualitative method. In this research paper, I have studied the artistic values and messages in the movie “Parasite.” Qualitative research is the search for written or verbal data to collect data, observational techniques, and literature have been used. Although “Parasite” is a work of social criticism, it carries very meaningful messages. The results of this study are some values such as: Criticism of human laziness, jealousy, selfishness and greed, discrimination between social classes. Furthermore, there are three benefits to watching the movie “Parasite”; they are means of education, social criticism and entertainment