İpin Ucunda Dans Eden Kuklalar: Parazit Filmi ve Sınıf Bilinci Yoksunluğu
Puppets Dancing on a String: Parasite and Lack of Class Consciousness

Summary/Abstract: According to Georg Lukács, one of the most important signs of the lack of class consciousness among the lower-class individuals is the immoral condition in which the individual cannot abandon the forms of ideological and interest-based compromise with other classes. According to him, class consciousness is about how individuals perceive themselves and their position in the current production process together with the social structure they are in. In societies where class consciousness is not developed, the lower-class individuals who are hindered from fulfilling their basic needs, and who even consider having a job as a matter of luck, are faced with circumstances where they do not question the reasons of their current condition, step on each other and see each other as a threat. In this respect, the most significant part of class consciousness is that individuals are always supposed to be in solidarity to achieve their common class goals in the face of the phenomenon of class conflict. Previously, in Snowpiecer (Snowpiecer, Bong Joon-ho, 2013), Bong Joon-ho addressed the phenomenon of class conflict between the ruling and the ruled in a horizontal and artificial space, i.e., a train, with a dystopian language. In this study, it is argued that Bong Joon-ho goes the opposite direction in Parasite: it deals with the class society and the subordinate-superior relationship in a mansion as a natural habitat from the perspective of class consciousness or the lack thereof. Through the example of the Kim family, who could not find out the causes of their problems resulting from their class condition because of the lack of class consciousness, this study aims to show that these people without consciousness exist both as authors and actors of their own tragedies by following Georg Lukács’ concept of class consciousness.

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