Alegoria contemporânea

O parasita como representação do real

Abstract

Animalistic metaphors of the human being are not new speeches, contrariwise, fables, tales, urban legend and other cultural expressions spread around the world, have already presented the hybridism of the body – half animal and/or vegetable. In the vast majority of narratives, the fusion between beings carries a theory of villainy and/or punishiment, consequences of the “evil” provoked by the now bestial creature. The animal characteristics, then, come to explain the behaviors and social relationships of the modified being. It is in this context that the present article approaches the South Korean production Parasite (2019), exploring the symbologies behind the choice of the animal in the work, and investigating the performance of the system as a kind of an incubator that stimulates this metamorphism. The theoretical bases are mainly the studies of Han (2019), on the effects of neoliberalism on society (of tiredness), Hall (2010), on the concept of representation, Xavier in the analysis of cinema, and other authors.