The Academy Awards had a stained track record when it comes to awarding the best image award in the past few decades. Sure, sometimes the academy admits the trophy OppenheimerA verifiable classic and highly towering performance in storytelling, but most NeitherPresent Green bookPresent BirdmanAnd ArgoOr films, time has completely forgotten how The artist or Coda. But now that parasite It has arrived on Netflix, it is a great time to remember that the academy occasionally finds the strength to hand over its biggest award to a really special film.
To say that the black comedy of director Bong Joon-Ho has aged well would be an understatement. Everything about parasiteThe history of the poor family Kim, who collect their way into the life of those who (both in a figurative and literal and literal) in the Korean social classes above them, still works wonderfully on the thematic level. But what the spectators may surprise when it comes to rethinking is how bleakly funny the different sequences of the film are.
No series of events in a film from the past decade is just as tense and terribly funny as the poisoning of the family of the park family with the family to replace them. Director Bong has retained his own excellent filmmaking and the clever letter to draw the audience in a terribly unpleasant position: We spend the sequence rooted in order to take advantage of the allergies of this woman to steal her livelihood. It is objectively terrible, but also the circumstances of the family.
It would be impressive enough to keep our sympathy and the tension high, but Bong Joon-Ho manages to maintain this sensitive balance through the entire film-owa, which he seems to continue in his next film. Mickey 17When the trailers are signs of it. Many films manage to mix elements of horror, comedy and thriller-like tension, but most of these films do this in different places in their term. One of the things that do parasite As very unique is that every moment of the film with all these genres feels infused at the same time. This not only makes it a worthy Pictom winner, but a really special one.
Of course none of it parasite Praise means that the academy has done nothing right in the past two decades. MoonlightThe best image gain continues to set a shining example of what the Oscars can be and nominates next to parasite was Little women And It was once … in HollywoodBoth had served as worthy winners. However, if we have been recognized for another month of the discourse about a particularly weak harvest of nominated for the best picture at this year's Academy Awards, including some really dark options masterpiece.
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