Inside the significance of Parasite's scholar stone
The director admits the enigmatic rock that plays a pivotal symbolic role in his acclaimed class-warfare thriller is a"deliberately strange choice."
During an early November interview at his offices in Seoul, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho was midway through answering a question about his acclaimed thrillerwhen he abruptly picked up a large rock from his desk and hurled it in the direction of my head. I shrieked, Bong laughed, and, surprisingly, I caught the rock — which turned out not to be a rock at all.'s mysterious "landscape rock," the most enigmatic metaphor of Bong's metaphor-stuffed film.
As a boy, Bong went for mountain hikes with his father looking for rocks suitable as scholars stones. In recent years, however, collecting them has become much less common, especially for Korean young people. Inserting one into the early stages ofwas a "deliberately strange choice," Bong says. When Min presents the rock to the Kims, Ki-woo exclaims, "It's so metaphorical!"
"Korean audiences are very perceptive about interpreting and analyzing all the symbols in films, so I was having fun with that," Bong explains. "Is it still a symbol if a character outright tells you that it is? What does that mean?" Bong's cast all puzzled over interpretations of the landscape rock, but the director consistently declined to share too much of his own intentions. During preproduction, Choi Woo-shik, the 29-year-old actor who plays Ki-woo, gave the meaning of the rock a considerable amount of thought. "I saw it as representing all the heavy pressure Ki-woo was feeling to take care of his family and find a way to get ahead," he says.
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