Parasite is a brilliant film, and it bagged multiple honours at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film and Best Director for auteur Bong Joon-ho.

In fact, it's so good at Singaporean cinemas are screening the film again for everyone to marvel at the South Korean masterpiece.

But whether you're watching for the first time, or going for your third screening to comb through all the little details, here are a list of things to look out for to impress your friends. Spoilers ahead!

Before the job

1. The Kim family live in a cramped "semi-basement" flat in Seoul. The South Korean capital has some of the most expensive property prices in the world.

2. We glimpse a silver medal won by Chung-sook, the matriarch of the family. It's a hint to her physical strength, but also demonstrates that second-place athletes in a less-popular sport like the hammer throw don't make much money.

3. The messaging service that the Kims use is subtitled "Whatsapp" in Singapore, but they're actually talking about KaKao Talk, a similar free service popular in Korea.

4. The Kims fold pizza boxes to make some money, but "one in four" are rejects. They look uncomfortably at each other, suggesting that one out of the four family members is a reject. It could be Ki-taek, the father, as he's later rejected by the wealthy Park family. Or it could be Ki-jeong, who dies later.

5. Ki-taek opens the window to let the pesticides in, which covers the open pizza boxes. Companies that cut corners for money may end up endangering their customers.

6. The Kim siblings badmouth the absent pizza delivery worker in an attempt to take his job for themselves, foreshadowing what they'll do later.

7. After getting paid for the pizza job, the Kims celebrate with beer and snacks. But the green cans of Filite beer is one of the cheaper brands in Korea.

8. Ki-taek recognises the Scholar's Rock that Min brings as a gift, hinting that he's an educated man.

9. Min might have wanted to help out a friend by offering the tutoring job, but his main motivation appears to be having someone who wouldn't ask Da-hye out on a date. Min might have thought that Da-hye was so out of Ki-woo's league, he wouldn't dream of dating her.

10. Just as Ki-woo considers Min's offer, a bus goes by in the background, showing that this is a turning point in his life.

11. It's revealed that Ki-woo has taken the university entrance exam four times. Either he's been illegally taking them for other students so they can get into university, or he's been trying to improve his score and get into a better university each time, and failed.

12. Ki-woo has a plan to eventually go to university and better his life. Laying out plans that blow up is a running theme of the movie.

Meet the Parks

13. For the first time, the camera "opens up" and shows Ki-woo walking around in the wide-open driveway of the high-end Park estate, a sharp contrast to the cramped, narrow conditions of his own home and neighbourhood.

14. Ki-woo walks up a flight of stairs to reach the Park house, showing that he's moving on up to a higher-class environment.

15. The famous architect Namgoong could be a reference to Namgoong Minsoo, the character who designed the security features on the train in Snowpiercer, another movie directed by Bong. Also, Namgoong is played by none other than Song Kang-ho, who plays Kim Ki-taek.

16. The old housekeeper, Moon-gwang demonstrates the movie's theme of "lines" as she goes to wake up her employer, Mrs Park Yeon-gyo. A clear line can be seen dividing the servant and the rich woman.

17. Yeon-gyo cares more about Min's recommendation than Ki-woo's (admittedly faked) credentials, suggesting that connections matter more than ability or qualifications in Korean society.

18. During Ki-woo's first lesson with Da-hye, he gives her a speech about "vigour" instead of actually teaching something useful about English, demonstrating his ability to manipulate people.

19. Yeon-gyo flips through a wad of golden-hued 50,000 won notes as she pays Ki-woo, contrasting the pizza delivery worker who earlier flipped through a wad of the green 10,000 won notes, further showing how rich she is.

20. Da-song's "self-portrait" may actually be a portrait of the scary man he once saw emerging from his basement, Geun-sae.

21. Yeon-gyo loves her son but she doesn't actually hug him or otherwise show affection, whereas Moon-gwang whirls him around and indulges his Native American interests. This is how she's still able to keep in touch with him even after she's fired.

- Da-song is an artist by nature. Look at this painting. 
- It's so metaphorical. It's really strong. 
- Strong, right? You've got an eye for this.
- It's a chimpanzee, right?
- A self-portrait. pic.twitter.com/nNHX1If7Rk

— siza iz crne gore (@nesveti_sisoje) February 12, 2020

"Jessica"

22. Ki-jeong does the "Jessica jingle" before entering the Parks' home to help her remember her cover story. It's set to the tune of "Dokdo is our land", a nationalist Korean song about the disputed Liancourt rocks, claimed by South Korea as Dokdo Islands and by Japan as Takeshima Islands.

23. Da-song, the rambunctious, energetic little boy, actually bows respectfully to Ki-jeong before he's dismissed.

24. Ki-jeong pushed out a chair for Yeon-gyo to sit on, subtly demonstrating her control over the rich woman.

25. The lights over the entrance staircase turn on when Mr Park Dong-ik enters, and flick off once he reaches the dining room. A subtle detail, but one that will be important later.

26. The Kims can now afford to eat at a "driver's cafeteria", a Korean eatery mainly patronised by bus and taxi drivers, but also open to the public.

27. Ki-taek mentions working at a Taiwanese cake shop that "went bust". Businesses offering fad products like cakes, bubble tea or fried chicken are common in Korea, but they are sometimes seen as a "last-resort" for unemployed people.

28. Dong-ik mentions "crossing the line", and being offended at the idea of an employee intruding into his private space.

29. Like in Singapore, illegal drug use is viewed harshly in Korea, which would damage the Parks' reputation if drugs were found in Dong-ik's car.

30. Yeon-gyo likes to drop a few English words into her speech (Jessica nice!), showing off her educated background.

Driver Kim

31. Ki-taek knows how to drive a Mercedes Benz but he's unfamiliar with the modern technology in the newer models of cars, hinting that he used to work as a driver but not recently.

32. Dong-ik's company is involved in virtual reality technology, another subtle jab at living in one's own world and not seeing reality for what it is.

33. The Parks regularly eat fresh fruit, which is very expensive in Korea.

34. The Kims now eat at the same pizza place they used to work for.

35. Ki-jeong appears to steal a peach from a grocery store instead of just buying one.

36. Korean viewers will get a kick out of watching Ki-woo tutor Ki-taek in "acting", as Ki-taek's actor is a veteran in Korean movies while Ki-woo's actor is a young up-and-comer. It was described as if "Ansel Elgort tried teaching Al Pacino how to act."

37. Ki-jeong is cradling Da-song, showing how she manages to build a rapport with him.

38. Ki-taek tries to foster a close relationship with Yeon-gyo by shaking her hand, but she's concerned about whether he washed his hands after holding a dirty tissue.

A new housekeeper

39. Dong-ik mentions that Moon-gwang ate enough food "for two", foreshadowing that she was taking some food for her husband.

40. The card that impresses Dong-ik was presumably made by Ki-jeong, with her impressive art skills.

41. Dong-ik warns Ki-taek to keep his eyes on the road instead of looking back at him, putting him back in his place.

42. Da-song comments that the Kims all smell alike. Even if they used different soaps and did separate laundry loads, their damp environment would still leave the smell of mildew on their clothes.

43. Instead of helping the drunk homeless man the Kims try to chase him away by splashing water at him, demonstrating how the lower classes in Korea fight among themselves instead of banding together against the rich.

44. Ki-woo formulates another plan that's ultimately doomed to failure, to romance Da-hye and officially become part of her rich family.

45. "She's not nice even though she's rich. She's nice because she's rich." One of the central themes of the movie, voiced by Chung-sook. Ki-taek adds that "money is an iron", which smooths out the creases of life.

46. Ki-woo said his sister is the most natural in the high-class environment. Ki-jeong has so far been depicted as the most intelligent, most naturally gifted, and the best conman in the family.

47. Ki-taek feels a little guilty about replacing the previous driver, but Ki-jeong doesn't care. Not only is she the least troubled, she's the only one in the family who did not replace a previous employee of the Parks.

48. Chung-sook says that Ki-taek would run and hide like a cockroach if he's discovered, which is what he ends up doing at the end of the movie.

49. Ki-taek "snaps" and grabs Chung-sook and tries to play it off as a joke, but it foreshadows his violent side under the surface.

50. Ki-jeong is holding the packet of jerky in her left hand but when the doorbell rings she's holding it in her right, a deliberate continuity error left in the movie.

A secret in the basement

51. Moon-gwang has some bruises on her face. It's likely she was roughed up by the loan sharks who are still searching for her husband.

52. Geun-sae eats a banana and in general behaves in an animalistic manner. The portrait that Da-song painted, that could be of Geun-sae, was mistaken as that of a chimpanzee by Ki-woo earlier.

53. Moon-gwang said the loan sharks threatened to stab her husband, which is what ends up happening to him.

54. Moon-gwang and Geun-sae have no house, no money and a lot of debts. Although the Kims are poor themselves, they at least have a house, some money and they don't mention borrowing money. This is why Chung-sook looks down on the desperate couple, and demonstrates how there's division even among the lower classes.

55. Guen-sae mentions that his Taiwanese cake shop went bust. Was it the same one that Ki-taek worked at?

56. Now that Moon-gwang has the upper hand, Chung-sook tries to appeal to her by also calling her "sister", but it's similarly rejected.

57. The Kims are kneeling down and holding their hands in the air, a punishment for naughty children in Korea.

58. Geun-sae refers to the video as a North Korean "missile". Living in a bunker, he could represent North Korea itself, with the Kims as South Korea, working for the wealthy Parks who are associated with the USA.

59. Moon-gwang imitates the famous North Korean broadcaster who speaks in a dramatic voice about the doings of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un.

The Parks come home

60. Chung-sook clears away the rubbish so fast, she sweeps the phone into the trash.

61. Chung-sook uses very high quality Korean Hanwu beef with the cheap "Ram-don" noodles, to show that the Parks are so rich, they can afford to treat expensive ingredients as a midnight snack.

62. It's Geun-sae who has been physically turning on the lights each time Mr Park comes home. He even expresses gratitude for living in his house and eating his food. But despite his "worship", Dong-ik doesn't even know he exists.

63. Unlike Ki-woo, Geun-sae has no plan and is fine with stagnating in the bunker. Both options don't lead to success, perhaps showing how the lower classes are stuck, unable to rise up.

64. The shot of the dining table with the two occupied chairs and the eight empty chairs show how many people actually live inside the house -- the four Parks, the four Kims, Moon-gwang and Geun-sae.

65. All the Parks have to do to discover the Kims in hiding is to look down at their feet. But they never do.

66. The Parks comment on Ki-taek's smell, causing him embarrassment in front of his children. This may explain why he behaves violently later.

67. Once the Kims finally escape, they continually move downwards to get to their old house.

68. Water, an element associated with fortune in many Asian cultures, here represents disaster. The floodwaters ruin many homes in the Kims' neighbourhood.

69. The first thing that Ki-taek grabs is his wife's athletics medal.

A game-changing flood

70. A shot of Moon-gwang vomiting into a toilet is followed immediately by the toilet in the Kims' house overflowing with sewage, as if the Kims' misdeeds are coming back to haunt them.

71. Ki-jeong smokes a cigarette, one of the luxuries from her old life, while sitting on top of the exploding toilet. She literally could not give a sh*t at this moment.

72. The Scholar's Rock floats up in the water, showing that it's hollow and fake, much like the Kims' dreams of getting rich.

73. Ki-woo once again talks about plans, but his older and wiser father knows that plans rarely work out the way you want them to.

74. Yeon-gyo cheerfully goes into her huge walk-in closet to pick out an outfit, contrasted immediately by the refugees at the gym squabbling over donated clothes to wear.

75. Yeon-gyo's mention of a crane-wing formation is in reference to a famous historical naval battle fought by Korean hero, Admiral Yi Sun-sin.

76. Yeon-gyo has previously been depicted as gullible and unable to perform simple household chores, but she's in her element as a socialite planning a party.

77. Yeon-gyo happily talks about the rain that washed away the "pollution" the night before, the same rainstorm that destroyed the Kim house and many others. What is seen as a good event for the rich represents disaster for the poor.

A fateful birthday party

78. Yeon-gyo tells the Mini Cooper to back into the garage, but not to block the Mercedes Benz. This is a triple header. Mini Coopers are not considered luxury cars in Korea, and Yeon-gyo might have been embarrassed about letting her neighbours see it out in the open. The parking of the car keeps the garage door open, which later allows Ki-taek to escape back into the house. And because the family car is blocked instead of the Mercedes Benz, that's why Dong-ik was demanding the keys to the Mercedes Benz after the attack.

79. Ki-taek once again tries to reach out to Dong-ik, asking if he loves his wife, but Dong-ik responds in a harsh manner, and makes it clear that he considers Ki-taek an employee, not a friend. And he also makes it clear that as long as he pays Ki-taek extra money, he expects him to do whatever he wants.

80. Ki-woo is unsure if he fits into rich society, doubting his plans for the first time. Da-hye, meanwhile, doesn't really care about the class difference between them.

81. Ki-jeong expresses some compassion for the first time, suggesting that they take some food down for the people trapped in the basement. But ultimately, she's the one who suffers the most.

82. Geun-sae bashes Ki-woo with the Scholar's Rock, but he survives because it's fake and hollow.

83. Geun-sae pushes the cupboard back in place, hiding the bunker, which is why the authorities don't find out about it later.

84. Ki-taek sees Da-hye carrying an unconscious and bloodied Ki-woo, and perhaps thought that both his children had died.

85. Dong-ik holding his nose as he rolls Guen-sae's body over to get the keys to the Mercedes Benz is the final straw for Ki-taek. In a time of emergency, while his daughter is bleeding to death, Dong-ik's reaction reminds Ki-taek of the massive gulf between them.

86. Ki-taek kills Dong-ik, as parasites end up killing their hosts.

Epilogue

87. Ki-woo suffers a head injury that makes him laugh uncontrollably, much like Geun-sae.

88. The two remaining Kims escape the death sentence because they acted in self-defence.

89. Ki-jeong, the most talented, hard-working and naturally gifted member of the family, is the only one who dies, further showing that the dream of upward mobility based on ability and hard work alone is a futile one.

90. Ki-woo rides the subway while deciphering the coded message, calling back to Dong-ik's dismissal of subway riders as poor people, showing that he's still poor.

91. One of the dogs is seen eating the sausages near Geun-sae's body, as in death he's little more than meat.

92. Ki-taek escapes detection because Moon-gwang disables the CCTV camera outside the Park home.

93. The Park house is sold to a German family because Koreans would be superstitious about buying a house where a murder took place.

94. Ki-taek escaped a death sentence by hiding in the house. But he's still trapped in a prison of his own, all alone in a kind of living death.

95. Ki-woo disposes of the Scholar's Rock in a stream as he talks about his new plan to work hard and earn money, which shows that he no longer counts on shortcuts to success.

96. Chung-sook is shown moving to the corner of the garden where Moon-gwang is buried, perhaps to pay her respects.

97. Ki-woo asks his father to come "up", continuing the theme that links rising upwards to freedom and luxury.

98. The sunlit house is a callback to Moon-gwang and Guen-sae's memories of dancing together in the sunlight, suggesting that both are unattainable fantasies.

99. We see the socks again, from the start of the movie, showing how Ki-woo has not managed to advance even after all that's happened.

100. Ki-woo's letter, written in the cold, unforgiving environment of his old house, emphasises that his dream of earning enough money to rescue his father is just a dream.

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