recommends to everyone today is the Korean action movie "Parasite", also known as "Parasite High".
movie recommendation: ★★★★★
"Parasite" is a feature film directed by Bong Junhao and starring Song Kanghao, Lee Sun-kyun, Zhao Ruzhen, Cui Woo-sik, Park Sodan, etc. It will be in Cannes International Film Festival on May 21, 2019 The main competition unit of the festival will premiere in South Korea on May 30, 2019, and in North America on October 11, 2019.
director Bong Joon-ho
's best movies in the South Korean film market in 2019, the first place is "Extreme Career" with 16.26 million viewers, and the second place is "Parasite" with 10.7 million viewers. "Parasite" won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture at the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival. This is the first time that a Korean film won the Palme d'Or. On February 9, the 92nd Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. The Korean film "Parasite" became the biggest winner, winning 4 awards for best film, best director, best original screenplay, and best international film.
"Parasite" is the first non-English dialogue film to win the best film. It is also the first best film featuring Asian actors. It is also the first time that a Korean director has won the best film Golden Man. Even South Korean President Moon Jae-in tweeted in the Blue House official that the movie "Parasite" impressed audiences all over the world with the most Korean story, and its unique performances and lines, scripts, editing, music, art, and actors’ acting skills are all to the world Prove the power of Korean movies.
mentioned Bong Joon-ho, the director of "Parasite". As the leading genre director in the Korean film industry, everyone may not be familiar with it, but when you mention his series of works, I believe many people have seen it. He made his debut in 2000 with his debut work "Kidnapping a Dog at the Door", and successively filmed "Memories of Murder", "Han River Monster", "Mother", "Snow Train" and "Yuzi", and acted as a producer in the thriller "Sea Fog". Quentin Tarantino once commented on him: "Among the filmmakers of the past 20 years, he is the director with the Spielberg characteristics of the 1970s. He can greatly integrate the characteristics of entertainment and comedy. ".
parasite poster
The film tells about a family of four living in a cheap semi-basement rental house, all originally vagrant. After the eldest son Jiyu concealed his true education and went to work as a tutor in a wealthy family living in a luxurious mansion, the family used different identities to disguise and work in the family. In the film, the director aimed at a modern society where the polarization between the rich and the poor is getting worse, where the rich are getting richer, while the poor are left struggling to survive. Using a suspenseful little character story, simple setting, and unexpected reversal, it exposes the social problems in reality.
This is also the consistent style of director Bong Joon-ho. Whether it is the 2006 ambition "Han River Monster" or the 2009 "Mother", which explores human nature, the director focused the camera on the darkest part of Korean society. In 2019, director Feng Junhao added a new work-"Parasite" to his catalog of social issues analysis.
Ordinary viewers may wonder why such a small country, under the impact of Hollywood commercial films, has become more and more courageous and has achieved such an achievement so far?
In fact, as early as the 1990s, the development of Korean films was also under pressure. Before 1984, the Korean film censorship system was extremely strict. After a painful experience, the classification system was introduced in 1984. The major reform of the system removed the shackles of Korean filmmakers, and Korean films began to develop explosively. The real turning point of Korean cinema began in 1999, which was a year of special significance in the history of Korean cinema. This year, the "Bald Head Movement" initiated by Korean filmmakers broke out to protect Korean local films. This event caused great pressure on the South Korean government, and it had to decide to continue the policy that each theater in each theater in South Korea must screen domestic movies for 148 days a year. This policy has effectively guaranteed the development of Korean local movies.
The bald head movement
was also released in 1999. The spy action film "Life and Death" directed by Jiang Digyu, starring Han Shikyu, Choi Minsik, Song Kanghao, and Kim Yunzhen, broke the box office record held by "Titanic" with 5.79 million viewers. , This has injected a booster into the Korean film market, and Korean films have begun their development. Korean films entered the Chinese market in 2000, and introduced a large number of excellent Korean films, including the "My Savage Girlfriend" which many people have seen.
My savage girlfriend
apart from the system reform has brought loose censorship, which has led to a blowout of Korean movies. The development of Korean films is inseparable from the high demands and strict constraints of the film industry itself. Many people don't know that the entry barriers for the Korean film industry are extremely high. From the perspective of directors alone, one way to become a director in South Korea is to graduate from the top film academies in South Korea, the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), and the Directing Department of Central University. To describe. Even if you graduate successfully, you still need to start in the crew, as a cameraman, or as an assistant director. The other way is to truly start from doing miscellaneous work on the set and be a director step by step.
The Korean film industry has a pragmatic spirit. Director Choi Dongxun made an agreement with the crew to ensure the rest time of the actors and staff during the filming of "Indianapolis". The filming will be conducted from 8 am to 7 pm every day. There has been no change. The average daily shooting time of the film is 12 hours. , This is rare in the Korean film scene where time is precious. Korean film directors are not very productive. It is not that they are inefficient, but that they strive for perfection. As the highest-ranking film actor in the Korean film and television industry, he is also very pragmatic, and his salary only accounts for a small part of the cost of the entire film.
With the right time and place, people and people are available, and the development of Korean film will get better and better.
We have to admit that Korean films are ahead of China and Asia as a whole!
