![]() Will the industry finally wake up to that realization this year? Much has been written about how “Parasite,” a critics’ darling and massive crossover hit, could finally shatter the mold by becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for best picture. Yalitza Aparicio (from left), Marco Graf, Fernando Grediaga and Marina De Tavira in “Roma.” These awards function more or less as consolation prizes, effectively keeping certain pictures in their place - on the margins - and preventing them from competing in any meaningful sense for bigger accolades. ![]() ![]() The bestowing of these awards - whether by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., an organization of Southern California-based journalists that presents the Globes, or by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will hand out the Oscars next month - is often a condescending gesture disguised as an inclusive one. alone is any indication.īut Bong also seemed to be rebuking the cultural myopia of Hollywood itself, which reserves special prizes each year for movies shot in countries outside the U.S. That aversion can clearly be surmounted, if “Parasite’s” word-of-mouth success and astonishing $23-million-plus gross in the U.S. In one perfectly barbed sentence (translated into English by his interpreter, filmmaker Sharon Choi), Bong called out the American moviegoing public’s perceived aversion to subtitles. “Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films,” said “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho as he claimed the prize for foreign-language film. You can duck out at this point, as we’re heading into light spoiler territory – with a heavy chance of plot-related headaches forecast.Since the best film nominated at the Golden Globes this year was a Korean film, it was only fitting that some of the event’s most resonant words were spoken in Korean. Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) Available on Amazon Prime Video. ![]()
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