Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism, trophically transmitted parasitism, vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation.
About Parasite
2020 Oscar winner for Best Picture that also took home the honors for Best Director, Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay. It centers on the members of a poor family who scheme their way into being employed by a wealthy family by posing as unrelated individuals.
Achievement of Parasite
The original title of the film is Gisaengchung. The movie premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it became the first Korean movie to win the Palme d'Or. It was the second film to win the highest Cannes honor with a unanimous vote since Blue is the Warmest Color (2013).
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