Why Parasite Director Wants To Visit India

Months before Parasite made history by winning 4 Oscars, director Bong Joon-ho spoke to Brut about why he wants to visit India.

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00:00Hello, this is Bong Joon-ho for BRUTE.

00:10India is a really huge movie industry.

00:30I really hope to visit because my costume designer, who is the mother of Okja and this

00:56She always told me her amazing experience in India.

01:02She described many amazing experiences there.

01:08I really hope to visit.

01:10And then I will think about what kind of story I can make there.

01:25I made Okja, but I'm not vegan.

01:33So during the filmmaking of Okja, in some period I was kind of pesco-vegetarian.

01:40So it's very difficult to eat the meat, the red meat during making Okja.

01:47It was quite a natural process.

01:51But actually the main theme, the subject of Okja is not veganism,

02:05but it's some kind of critique about the food industry.

02:22I'm quite obsessed with family because it's a very basic human element, I think.

02:34I mean the parasite, this is the very first time I dealt with multiple families in the movie.

02:52People always tell me that it's quite difficult to define the genre of your movie.

03:00That kind of reaction is quite common, but I really enjoy those kind of reactions.

03:07I really love it.

03:09I always want my film to be very hard to define.

03:16Actually I don't have the intention, pure intention,

03:21I don't have no intention of mixing genre or shift genre, but it just happens.

03:29Because we humans have a very different kind of feelings at the same time.

03:38So I think it's quite natural.

03:47I think that the modern life, modern society, there is no barrier,

04:06there is no boundary between countries and continents.

04:11Geographically I'm from Asia, but I'm just a filmmaker.

04:18My story can work everywhere, in every country, in every continent, I think.