The Academy Awards have had a spotty track record when it comes to awarding the Best Picture prize over the last couple of decades. Sure, sometimes the Academy gives the trophy to Oppenheimer, a verifiable classic and towering achievement in storytelling, but more often than that it goes to middling or outright bad films, like Nomadland, Green Book, Birdman, and Argo, or movies time has forgotten entirely, like The Artist or CODA. But now that Parasite has arrived on Netflix, it’s a great time to remind yourself that every once in a while, the Academy finds the strength to hand its biggest award to a movie that is truly special.
To say director Bong Joon-ho’s black comedy about class has aged well would be an understatement. Everything about Parasite’s story of the poor Kim family conning their way into the lives of those above them (both figuratively and literally) in
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