FILM : REVIEW
Much Ado About
PARASITE (What’s the big deal?)
Closer look at the award-winning film
Story KEVIN LAMBERT Photos GOOGLE
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uch of the world has been buzzing about a certain wellregarded Korean film that won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. This film would win a plethora of awards: Blue Dragon in Korea, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, New York and Los Angeles Critics Choice Awards, just to name a few. It’s nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, which is not uncommon, but the last foreign language film to win was, well, never. (“The Artist” was silent with lines in English.) The film, written and directed by the auteur Bong Joon Ho, is described as a tale of two families: one rich; one poor. The families enter into a symbiotic relationship, and a third family is found to have been interloping all the while. It’s all very metaphorical, and complex, but also simple; it starts off as a bleak comedy and a fairy tale.
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