Parasite
In die middle of February, Donald Trump made fun of this year’s best picture. I watched Trump’s campaign lines. He could not believe that a South Korean film would win an American based movie award. He called for “great American movies” like Gone with the wind to win Oscars. So I wanted to see the South Korean film and see why and how it convinced the majority of the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to do something that it has never done before: To give the best movie award to a foreign film.
The film kept me in deeply engaged. For the Western audience it presented something different that your eyes at not seen before. It managed to gently put the finger on what is happening in Western societies. Globalization has caused many people to have much less job security and in many western countries create a much bigger distance between the rich and the poor. I was not prepared for the violence that appears towards the end of the film, but I could stomach it even more than the violence in Once upon a time in Hollywood. The poor working-class people are not portrayed romantically in this film nor the rich. And this is what made the film so interesting because it is not preaching. It is simply putting the finger on the problem that many societies are going through right now.