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The above article helped me to appreciate the movie better.

I'm glad I read it before I saw the movie.

My wife and I were able to enjoy every aspect of the movie, including music,

and the serious effort put in by the director.

I didn't share the concern of the political consequences expressed so emphatically 

by 조우석.

I have to agree with the majority of 84000 members of Oscar Academy who voted in favor of Parasite.

Bravo, Korea!

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And yet Bong and co-writer Han Jin-won don’t fall into stereotypes of haves and have-nots, either. This is not a movie about how rich people are actually miserable. Whether it’s because of their surroundings or just a coincidence, the Parks seem to live an untroubled and happy existence; their crime is in being so comfortable that they can’t really imagine anyone is struggling. And the Kims are not made saints by their poverty, either. 

Combine those characters with an unpredictable plot and Parasite emerges as a masterpiece. It’s also an exemplary specimen of a kind of movie that’s proliferated this year — movies like Knives Out and Ready or Not and Joker and many, many others, each about the mounting gap between the rich and the rest of the world. It’s been a marked trend, and Parasite is one of the finest, probably because Bong knows his way around a visual metaphor (and as the movie goes on, it’s a lot more than just the houses). No wonder the movie won the Palme d’or at Cannes in May. 

And while it’s hugely entertaining, Parasite is also thought-provoking. By the time the catharsis arrives, you think you’re at the end of the film, but a coda adds a new wrinkle to the whole thing. If a parasite eventually takes over its host, then what will happen to a world where everyone, in some way, is a parasite for someone else?"

I saw "Joker" when I was visiting Korea in October last year. I thought the hero's(Phoenix) acting 

was superb, but my mind was not settling all throughout the movie. And I got out of 

the theater with a bitter taste. Phoenix got the best actor award in the Oscars.

I saw "Parasite" in November last year authentic theater in Livermore, Ca. It glued my 

eyes on the screen from the beginning to the end. I did not like the plots, because the rich

had no obvious reason to be punished but the richness itself. However, I strongly felt that 

the director was trying to express the helplessness of the poor. 
 

Both movies touched the prevailing issue, the haves and the have nots, fading opportunities of the poor,

and neglects of the rich.  Both had the extreme vivid violence that I was not particularly fond of. 

The act of Phoenix as a psychopath was outstanding. Phoenix got the best actor award.
 

Then I saw "1917" in January in Modesto where I live. It was my kind of movie. It was about two 

brothers and a friend on the frontline during World War One.

I thought it was the perfect movie for the Oscars. It was the closest contender next to "Parasite". 
 

Then the Oscars came. Parasite won the best picture over 1917. I thought it was almost unfair, but 

I was so excited, simply because the Korean movie won the most prestigious prize in the world. 
I did not care about the fairness of the Oscars. I did not care about the ideology of the plot. It was just about

the fact that my motherland Korea is at the top of the world. I wholeheartedly welcome the Academy's 

decision no matter what. I was suddenly realized that I am still Korean.

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