07DeweyInterpretiveSample on Parasite (2019)
Character Depth MRI
Example analysis of Parasite (2019), screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won. Shown for demonstration and commentary. It reads a finished film to show the format, so anything it flags may well be deliberate; on your own draft, treat each flag as a question.
Also on: Nope (2022)
One of five characters completes the circuit
Ki-Tek, Chung-Sook and Mun-Kwang act without reflecting and Ki-Woo acts without taking in what happens to them.
How to read this
Each strip is Dewey's experience circuit in order: habit, the shock that disrupts it, weighing what to do, acting, undergoing what follows, and reflecting on it. Three blocks lit is strong, two moderate, one weak.
A dashed ochre outline marks the phase where the diagnosis says the circuit breaks. When that phase still has two or three blocks lit, the script shows it and the break is narrow. A weak habit is not a break: it means the character is not stuck in a routine.
Select a name to follow the character through the other instruments in a full report.
- ImpulsiveDepthModerate
- Habit: strong
- Disruption: moderate
- Deliberation: weak
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: weak
- Reflection: weak, where the circuit breaks
Ki-Tek's behaviour cycles between passive habit and sudden, rage-driven action, with no deliberation in between. He never absorbs the 'undergoing' of humiliation; it comes out as violence.
- AnaestheticDepthModerate
- Habit: moderate
- Disruption: moderate
- Deliberation: moderate
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: weak, where the circuit breaks
- Reflection: moderate
Ki-Woo is a planner who mistakes cunning for wisdom. He deliberates and acts well, then fails at the 'undergoing' moments (the basement brawl and its aftermath). His only reflection is the futile fantasy at the end.
- CompleteDepthStrong
- Habit: weak
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: strong
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: moderate
- Reflection: moderate
The most complete circuit of any character here. She deliberates and acts with ease. Her outburst about rich people shows a capacity for 'undergoing', but violence cuts it short before it can turn into reflection.
- ImpulsiveDepthModerate
- Habit: moderate
- Disruption: moderate
- Deliberation: weak
- Doing: strong
- Undergoing: moderate
- Reflection: weak, where the circuit breaks
Strong at doing, and she meets disruption with physical force. Little deliberation or reflection: she runs on survival instinct. She protects the family by acting, with no larger plan.
- ImpulsiveDepthModerate
- Habit: weak
- Disruption: strong
- Deliberation: moderate
- Doing: moderate
- Undergoing: strong
- Reflection: weak, where the circuit breaks
Undergoes hardship and loss, and that drives her return. Desperation limits her deliberation, and her reflection never gets past nostalgia for the house, so her circuit never closes.
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