Man I really wanted to enjoy this movie and just struggled with it from the start. Nothing works in this thing, the “Marty McFly” esque narration is just grating. I am not sure if is the break neck speed of the story or just how obvious and trite the social commentary is, all the jokes don’t land. Subtly has never been Bong Joon Ho‘s strength but man this thing just made my eyes roll and man it was tough being stuck with the biggest looser in the known universe…
The production values are spectacular.
He defanged the actual meaningful themes so hard in favor of “Trump bad” I was left wondering if he thought the parasites in Parasite were poor people.
There has to have been something else going on. Maybe he just thought Americans were too dumb to understand subtlety on even Mickey 7’s level?
On the other hand, I do think the Creepers worked better as individuals instead of a hive mind.
The Creepers are a gestalt intellegence, not a hive mind.
Gestalts are generally considered a kind of hive mind as far as I understand these vaguely defined terms but if you have a credible professional source that has the general consensus lay it on me.
I think you’re probably right about the specific kind of group mind they’ve got going on.