To understand the movie "Parasite", you can't just go to the forum and find an original animation to make up for it, because it (Parasite) itself carries too much information about it. Metaphors about human nature and the world.

So what is a parasitic beast?

Is it an unknown creature that gets into human brains and turns people into monsters?

No! The author uses various overt or covert plots and lines to illustrate this issue.

The parasitic beast actually refers to our own consciousness!

The plots interspersed by the three important characters in the play all confirm my guesses.

Let’s start with Ryoko Tamiya. Tamiya was originally a teacher. After his body was taken over by a parasitic beast, he came to teach at Shinichi's school, and he and Shinichi knew each other's identities. Interestingly, Tamiya does not specialize in killing humans and feeding on them like other parasitic beasts. Instead, he actively integrates into human society and explores ways to get along with humans. She told one thing that shocked Shinichi from the beginning, that is, she had a relationship with Mr. A (another parasitic beast) and became pregnant with a child. However, the child she conceived was just an ordinary child. Human children.

This is a very interesting and meaningful setting. Why is it that the parasitic beast occupies the body and the head can change its shape at will, but this change is not inherited?

In the film, Tamiya Ryoko expressed her doubts about this matter. She said, we (parasitic beasts) are born in this world, but we cannot even reproduce our own offspring. Why are we here? This? Where will it go? Her intelligence not only allowed her to start thinking about these philosophical issues, but also brought her super high combat power. One person could easily kill three parasitic beasts in an instant. However, she was such a rational and almost cold-hearted person, but she also experienced "emotions" in the process of raising her own children, and eventually exposed her true identity and was killed in order to save her children.

Don’t you think it’s strange? Why do parasitic beasts also think: Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going? Why do parasitic beasts also develop feelings and behave "unreasonably"?

In fact, it is not that parasitic beasts do this, but because "people" do this.

People are conscious, so they can think, so they will ask questions like where do I come from and where am I going? People's ability to think brings reason to people, and reason brings strength to people; however, people are not rational at all times. They will have a fragile side in the face of love and feelings. This is also Tamiya's Death wants to explain.

The most important point is that consciousness, which is only parasitic in the mind, cannot be inherited, so of course its children are human children just like the body.

Let’s take a look at Takeshi Hirokawa as a politician. Guangchuan is also a very smart parasitic beast. Although his role is not many, as the leader of a group of similar beasts, he plays a very important role in it. On the one hand, he controls a group of parasitic beasts that follow him and becomes the mayor through election, seeking benefits for his kind; on the other hand, he hates humans very much and believes that humans are the parasitic beasts of nature, relying on nature but constantly destroying it. With nature. His denunciation of humanity in the city hall before his death was thought-provoking.

Politics is a unique product of human beings. It was originally created to serve certain "groups". Guangchuan is actually just doing this. The only difference is that he is serving "parasitic beasts". So Guangchuan is not a special parasitic beast, just a naturalistic politician.

As for the protagonist, it is quite special. If the parasitic beast is human consciousness, does Shinichi have a split personality? Not so. But the final big boss does have a split personality.

The phenomenon of Shinichi’s coexistence with the parasitic beast can actually be explained by the id and superego. Shinichi is actually the representative of his true self. He is cowardly and timid. He always cries after being laughed at by the heroine. His mother is unwilling to accept the fact that he has become a parasitic beast and often chooses to escape. Xiaoyou can be understood as trying to make up for the shortcomings of his true self. The resulting superego, so its various expressions and personality traits are actually the exact opposite of Shinichi, cold and wise.

Starting from Xiaoyou's repair of Shinichi's heart, it was actually a kind of superego's redemption of the id. This time, the characteristics of the superego became dominant in the whole person, and the former sensitivity and fragility developed into coldness and ruthlessness, so that he did not even shed tears. Way to stay.

Fortunately, after being inspired by Liangzi and the Big Boss, the superego and the id merged and finally returned to themselves. In the Ryoko incident, Shinichi accepted the recognition of emotions in his own self and no longer relied purely on reason; and in the battle with the BOSS, Shinichi regained the lost confidence and accepted the imperfection of the expected self. , in the end the two contradictory personalities completed the fusion, creating a new one.

So, if you look back at the beginning of the story with this setting, it will be easier to understand. Something that doesn’t know where it comes from or why it comes takes over the human brain, and then it begins. In order to control the body, a series of stories developed. Isn’t that kind of thing our consciousness?

So I think this is not completely telling the story of a fictional new species, but more like a different form of interpretation of human beings.