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“Parasite” became the first foreign-language
film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy
Awards on Feb 9. It won a total of four Oscars, including best
director and original screenplay for Director Bong Joon-ho and
best international feature film.
"A masterpiece that has artfully and sharply cut through the
reality of a handful of loan sharks living well while ruling
over an overwhelming majority, who they consider as dogs or
pigs, has been recognised as No. 1 in the U.S.- and
Caucasian-centric film industry," the Japan-based Choson Sinbo
newspaper said.
The film is a tale of two South Korean families - the wealthy
Parks and the poor Kims - that mirrors the deepening disparities
in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and has struck a chord with
global audiences.
In June 2019, less than a month after "Parasite" began showing
in South Korea, North Korean propaganda website DPRK Today had
said that the movie was "making people realise again that the
capitalist system is a rotten, sick society with a malignant
tumor of rich-becoming-richer and poor-becoming-poorer, a
society with no hope or future."
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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