I first saw
Parasite on the weekend of its release and thought it was very good rather than incredible, but holy cow did the second viewing blow me away. Every tiny detail I took to be incidental on the first viewing (the use of "sis," the things we learn about the Parks from their conversations, even the way consumer products are framed and discussed) just clicked and I fully got the cult behind the film.
In particular, I used to be among the people who thought the violence at film's end was awkward and unfitting of what had come before, but of course upon revisiting I think it's great in its sudden and terrible disorientation. Even if they're doing very different things, I strangely thought of the ape scene from Ad Astra (another film that I am now going to rewatch soon in the hopes that I "get" something I didn't before) if only because both sequences take their tense buildups and turn them into violence savage enough to be bewildering and genuinely frightening.
I don't see too much in the way of praise for the actors here or elsewhere, but I thought Song Kang-Ho and especially Cho Yeo-jeong (the first half of the film depends a lot on her hitting fairly specific marks and she nails them every single time) were fantastic, as good as explicitly comic performances can get. I apologize for this being so jumbled and messy, but I love this movie a lot now and I'm just glad to see what I didn't earlier (and confused as to how I missed it before).