THEl Bong Joon-Ho film that scored the story of the Oscars arrives this evening at 9.15 pm on Rai 3. Don’t miss it. First of all why Parasite is the only foreign language film that has won the Best Picture award. In addition to those of Best Foreign Film, direction and original screenplay: a riot just before – it was February 10, 2020 – that the world and cinema closed due to a pandemic.
Secondly, why popularized the Korean cinema outside the festival circuitsconquering audiences and critics and with sharp irony social disparities in South Korea. A film impossible not to love, too only for the swirling crescendo of events.
Parasite: the plot
The story is that of the Kim family who lives in the basement of a building and is looking for work and social revenge. When the son Ki-woo he has the brilliant idea of forging his diploma and teaching his teenage daughter as a private tutor of the very rich Park, his family members get gassed and decide to contaminate, each with its own role, the Kims. Like parasites they take possession of what does not belong to them.
The diabolical plan it causes unexpected consequences even for the Kims, who pay attention to every little detail. An almost from plan perfect Hitchcock crime which then takes on monstrous connotations.
The power of Parasite and the tribute to Gianni Morandi
The film of Bong Joon-Howhich we had known for its post-apocalyptic Snowpiercer (now also become a TV series Netflix), has cleared the cinema Korean in the West, knowingly managing to mix black comedy and social drama, thrillers, sentiments and even horror.
He also enjoys playing with it space, reality and the psychology of the characters and to build upsetting faces. For the director there is no winner and loser: the real loser is modern society.
In all the scenes, the one underlined by Kneeling by you by Gianni Morandi. A pleasant surprise for the singer, who later explained how the 1965 success ended up in the film: “It seems that Bong’s father was fond of Italian music. He remembered this piece and it seems that he also saw the musician in which I sing the song dressed as a military man“.
Bong and Gianni also met in Venice during last year’s Film Festival. “I finally met the great Korean director Bong Joon-Ho “, Morandi wrote in the photo posted on Instagram with the then president of the jury, “he was so nice that he got down on his knees and said ‘On his knees to you’!”
The conquest of Cannes, the public and the Oscars
Parasite it is a bitter masterpiece which brings us into darker tangles of today’s reality and of the human mind. He conquered the first jury of Cannes, who unanimously gave him the Palme d’Or (it hasn’t happened since Adele ‘s life), then the audience and finally four Oscar historians. Slowly he was loved by the Americans and above all he broke down the walls of Trumpism: not surprisingly shortly thereafter Trump has given way to Biden.
Director Bong Joon-ho with the Oscars won. (Getty Images)
Could it have been the first Oscar of a new era? Perhaps. We’ll see if Sunday night the Academy will be bold enough to win another foreign film among the best of the year, the Japanese Drive My Car. Outclassing The power of the dog, Belfast and Coda. The favorites.
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