As animals evolved from unicellular organisms to multicellular organisms and evolved into various forms as in Darwin’s Origin of Species, parasites also began to appear. In fact, parasitism is one of the other ways of survival. From the human perspective, those who live by parasitizing the survival capacity of other living creatures rather than their own are useless. Even if you are not a parasite on your own body, you can often see people around you living like parasites on other family members or on members of the opposite sex because they are unwilling or unable. Is it really worth surviving such beings? From what perspective should we view people who trample on someone’s dreams or hold them back and prevent them from moving forward?
In fact, when going fishing or collecting insects, Yeongarsi is often collected together with these species and is a level 1 indicator species. Although they cannot live in such a dirty environment, they feed on parasitic insects and lay millions to 20 millions of eggs. By manipulating a predatory insect to fall into the water, a soft spine emerges. The film Yeongasi depicts a scene where nationwide chaos occurs when Yeongasi becomes a parasite of humans. Although they are digested in humans and become a source of protein, they cannot originally live as parasites on humans. However, the fact that such soft spines can survive and grow by absorbing nutrients from inside insects is worthy of threat.
In the film, the setting begins with the conspiracy of people linked to a pharmaceutical company. They created a variant of Yeongasi that could parasitize humans and be transmitted through water, terrorize society, and try to sell the anti-parasitic medicine they produced. Of course, it is impossible for a Korean pharmaceutical company to create parasites through such research. There is no pharmaceutical company in Korea yet that conducts this level of research. The death rate of COVID-19 was not that high. However, his influence on society was significant. The setting, in which a parasite like a sea slug lives inside a person and then manipulates the brain and causes the person to fall into the water and eventually die in a state of suspended animation, was enough to make people tremble Of fear.
The human brain is sometimes weak and lacks willpower. It is difficult to quit even with just one cigarette you accidentally smoke, so you try every year, and the drugs you happen to taste lead you to a dead end, and gambling that you will be lucky is also the result of a mistake of evaluation of your brain. The human brain tricks itself into believing that even things that are harmful to it are useful. A parasite called Yeonsagi targets even the most vulnerable aspects of the brain.
Our medical system can be maintained when it is normal. If a situation like Yeongasi arose, everything would suddenly collapse. People have a reason to exist when they are alive, but the moment they die they become a thing. When people die, they are treated as if they are worthless. No matter how much you invoke the value of life, it is treated differently depending on your social position. If you ask whether Korean society receives the same healthcare, the answer is only true at a basic level. Once you overcome a serious illness, the medical care you receive varies greatly depending on what you have and your social status. You can only know when you are in that situation. Maybe I hope that such a situation does not occur and I rely on chance.
Even Lee Sun-kyun, who seems to have realized his dream through the film Parasite, can be seen as a victim of the indiscriminate madness of human society. If, to get a promotion, they take the words of a drug-addicted woman literally, leak them to the media, and take her to a place with no way out, not many people can stand that situation. There are more parasites like Yeongasi in this society than we think. And they live without knowing that they are parasites. People who can suck the blood of others just to survive are evolving like snails wriggling from visible to invisible places.
2024-01-18 23:04:30
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