Internationally acclaimed composer Jung Jae-il wows a captive audience in the live score performance of the film Parasite (2019).

Winner of four Oscars, this dark comedy-thriller by Bong Joon-ho follows the schemes of the underprivileged Kim family to find steady employment in the household of the affluent Mr Park. 

Parasite: Live in Concert. Photo © Jay Patel

Concert Lab presents an impressive orchestra of 41 musicians, who perform live with occasional pre-recorded synthesiser support. Although louder than the dialogue, the precision and unity of the instruments is impressive with great cohesion between the woodwinds, strings and percussion. The element of live music heightens the tension and drama of the plot in a way that cannot be emulated in a conventional movie theatre. 

The (in)famous ‘Peach Scene‘ is accompanied by Jung’s Belt of Trust. Fluctuating between F# minor and A major tonality, the evocative theme of this Baroque pastiche stretches across seven minutes in a brilliant underscore to the sequence of events leading to Mrs Kim successfully usurping the role of the Park family’s ultra-loyal housekeeper.  

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