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The films that built Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's class thriller draws on Hitchcock's architecture of dread and Kurosawa's vertical geography of wealth and poverty. It deepens that with Hirokazu Kore-eda's tender social realism and Lee Chang-dong's slow-burn class resentment, sharpened by the procedural unease of Bong's own crime cinema.
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The films that built The Matrix
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