In nearly a hundred years of Oscar history, the best film with the highest honor has never appeared in a non-English film... "Parasite" is the first. Counting the fact that Ang Lee's "Youth School" won the best foreign language film award that year, it is true that "Parasite" won the award for the best foreign language film. When
was released as early as the film, the response indicated its status as a masterpiece in the industry.
In May 2019, Bong Joon-ho won the first Korean film history Cannes Palme d’Or with "Parasite" and defeated his opponent Quentin-"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter and director , Almodova ( Venice, Cannes Film Festival Nail House) these masters, word-of-mouth communication.
as early as last month also won the 72nd Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film , it can be said that winning the prize is soft. Not only that, from May to August, "Parasite" was released in multiple countries and regions. Along the way, myths continue. The number of movie viewers in South Korea exceeded 10 million, and France, Vietnam, and Australia all broke the highest box office record for Korean movies in the local area.
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South Korea celebrated that the director’s military service would be exempted, and the unquestionable highest evaluation was
just like Bong Joon-ho on the Oscars awards, thanking the filmmaker old Martin when he said the most personal thing, The most creative thing.” has directed only 7 films in his career for more than 20 years. In the past few years, he has tried to cater to the European and American markets with the two films "Snow Country Train" and "Jade", and the films have also been shortlisted several times. The Palme d’Or, in the end, they all passed by.
This time he returned to the local context and made this "Parasite" from self-thinking, before he truly gained worldwide recognition. In his acceptance speech, in addition to his wife and actors, he paid special tribute to Martin Scorsese, saying that it was a great honor to nominate with him, and he did not expect to receive an award.
Feng Junhao’s resume is also impressive. When he mentions him, most fans will immediately think of his famous work "Memories of Murder". The hero Song Kanghao in the photo is also from "Parasite" One of the leading actors.
dare to think that the "Memories of Murder" that collaborated with is already the pinnacle of , and now it is just an appetizer. What movie myths they can write again later is really unknown.
, one of the starring actors, Cui Woo-sik, is also an actor who has been fighting since he was a child. He used to only appear in popular Korean dramas, and Baidu's entry could not find his name. Now he finally stands in the lead of Oscar with his excellent performance. On the podium.
(Cui Woo-sik, first from left)
actor Zhang Huizhen is also very brilliant in the film, she also plays the second female Xu Dan's mother in the popular Korean drama "Crash Landing of Love", remember this character, she is in "ParasiteThe interpretation in "will absolutely subvert your perception of her. The uncle of
was not idle either. He played a seemingly useless and even a little insanity, but in the end he almost became the role of a big boss. In the more than ten minutes of his filming, the audience could feel the difference. The same world. (The stills are suspected of spoilers, dare not to let them go)
Those who understand the Oscar-winning mechanism should know how difficult it is for Asian films to enter the mainstream discourse system in Europe and the United States, and no one has preceded it. This seems to be a miracle of Korean film history. After actually watching the performance of these actors, you will feel that the Oscar is not well-known, and this film is worth it.
Plot introduction
The title "Parasite" is not a sci-fi movie that dare to imagine, everything revolves around a low-level family in a Korean slum. Song Kanghao plays a vagrant father with a pair of children. The family lived in poverty, living in a semi-basement full of cockroaches without WiFi, and living by folding pizza boxes.
An accidental opportunity made the family quietly "foster" in the mansion, sucking on the wound like bloodthirsty bugs. The first half is about the story of the insatiable family "dove occupying the magpie's nest", and even dare to think that the first half of this movie that has won more than one hundred awards at home and abroad, the first half of is a bit plain.. .?
may be the second half of the climax, plus editing, sound effects, people in the last tens of minutes of the film, fascinated not to miss any shots. Especially the sudden switch from the opening comedy plot to the middle climax, the director handled it very simply and neatly, so that the audience could not react in time to quickly start the next more subversive segment.
Those little details that flash by but are full of deep meaning
Next, dare to answer questions for the audience who has watched "Parasite". The baby who may not have seen it does not understand what I am talking about, but dare to resolutely not. spoiler.
One of the "protagonists" cockroach —when the "poor" class is exposed to the sun, it really looks like a cockroach. The metaphor of "cockroach" interspersed in each section of the film is too heartbreaking. The husband in the basement lives in a dark cellar, like a cockroach.
The little action of the man who caused the disaster—because the man who smelled this unspeakable smell again subconsciously covered his nose, and then...how did the rich man who was born with a golden spoon know this? Even he himself described it. It doesn't come out, it smells like spoiled raisins. It is a special label for the poor who live in the basement.
The poor son’s high school friend sent the stone , saying that it would bring wealth and good luck, but his real intention is actually: this stone is a fake rare stone, PS: This may be Jiwoo’s head being smashed Stone, but not dead or stupid, just bought it from a place like a street stall and made up a reason to deceive Ji-woo and let him become a tuition teacher on his behalf. Why did you choose him? Because my friends expect that rich girls will never look at such poor people.
said a very tender little detail. Song Kanghao returned to his flooded house. The first thing he did was to rescue the athlete badge that his wife won when he was young. He also trembled twice in distress, trying to shake the sewage out of the frame. .
seems to be decent in those years, and it is also a pavement for his last "nonsensical" behavior. What he wants to protect is not only this medal, but also the memory of the most precious moment in life. Every shot taken by director
has a profound meaning he wants to express. At the end of the film, the poor father looked at the toilet for a long time before flushing in the basement of the mansion. Because years of life experience in a semi-basement in a slum area told him that the toilet in the basement would have high water pressure, and he would worry about not being able to enter the water.
He did not know the pipeline water pressure in high-end residential areas, which was far better than his original house. Finally, in doubt, he slowly flipped the flush switch.
In the poster of "Parasite", all the characters in the play, the parasitic poor and the parasitic rich, have no expressions. The eyes are covered by a black bar code and looks more like a horror film poster. The stills want to use the blind spots of each class to form a "mutually invisible" society. If you look carefully, you can see that the rich man in the middle is well dressed but the poor have no shoes. If you zoom in, you can also see the cockroach on the poor mother's leg. Metaphor of the core position of the rich.
Objectively speaking, the films that have been touted by the Oscars, are all hits , dare you to think that whether it is "Titanic" or "Lord of the Rings 3", which won 11 Oscar awards, it is rare. It’s a good film, but the films I admire the most seem to have nothing to do with Oscar nominations or awards.
No matter what the original intention of the director and screenwriter is, the film is made for the audience, as long as you feel good, it can be considered a good film.
