1 July 2021
Parasite (2019)
Considered one of the best films of the century so far, the South Korean black comedy thriller Parasite won over 300 awards worldwide, including the Cannes Palme d’Or, a Golden Globe, two BAFTAs, and four 2020 Oscars: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film and – a first-ever for a non-English language film – Best Picture.
Co-written and directed by Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Okja, Mother, Snowpiercer), the film weaves a tale of class discrimination and greed as a poor family schemes to infiltrate a wealthy household by posing as highly qualified, unrelated individuals.
Vulture calls Parasite “a nerve-racking masterpiece,” sayings, “You expect Parasite to be one thing, but it mutates into something else,” while New York Times says it’s “Bong at his best” in “an urgent story of class, told in the most sensationally entertaining way.”
#30 in IMDb’s Top Rated Movies of all time, with an 8.6/10 score, Parasite has a 98% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed over $250million at the 2019 global box office. In IndieWire’s 2019 poll of over 300 critics, Parasite ranked #1 in the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Film categories, with 77 first places and mentions on the year-end top-ten lists of over 240 critics as aggregated by Metacritic.
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