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I enjoyed watching the Oscars ceremony last night! I watch every year and enjoy most parts of it even when I'm disappointed with who wins (or who was nominated in the first place). I enjoy not only the acceptance speeches but also awkward scripted presenter banter, the musical numbers, the montages, and so on.
Last night most of the big nominees were for movies I haven't seen and don't plan to see. I was disappointed that there weren't more nominations or awards for Little Women, one of my favorite movies from last year, but I was surprised and pleased that Parasite did so well. Besides having liked the movie I thought Bong Joon-ho was gracious and charming in his acceptance speeches (interpreter Sharon Choi was also lovely and skilled), and it was really exciting to me that a movie not in English could win Best Picture. (I would've been even happier if that history-making film had been Alfonso Cuarón's Roma last year but okay.)
This afternoon I saw some friends on Twitter wondering if they should see Parasite, what with it being pretty violent and their not having liked his previous film Okja. I haven't see Okja (or Snowpiercer or The Host) but I faced similar uncertainty last month, being a person who usually tries to avoid very violent movies but also wanting to know what all the fuss was about with this one. In the end I decided to be brave and ended up being really glad I'd gone to see it in the theater.
So this is my post about whether you should see Parasite! I will try to do this without being super spoilery, but I actually agree with some folks who say it's good to go into this without knowing much about it, because the plot twists are part of the pleasure of it. I will spoil for Get Out though because that's my favorite horror movie and strongest point of comparison. Anyway if you don't want any spoilers the short version is yes! If your tastes are similar to mine you will probably like Parasite. It's got some violence but is also super interesting and well made.
Oh, and also I would like to recommend the website doesthedogdie.com, where you can look up whether movies and TV shows contain specific unpleasant things like animal harm, needles, fat jokes, etc. (No pets die in Parasite.)
( A comparison with Get Out )
Actually the first half of Parasite reminded me a lot of one of my favorite Brazilian movies, The Second Mother, so if you would like to see a good movie about family intimacy and class inequality with subtitles and no violence I recommend that one, which is streaming on Hulu. Oh and for that matter there's the Mexican movie Roma, streaming on Netflix, which has police shooting at protestors and some other really harrowing things in it but is not anything like a horror movie.
( Okay but like, how violent is it? )
Happy to answer other questions to the best of my abilities! Or just like, we can talk about movies or the Oscars in the comments! I love movies, gosh.
Last night most of the big nominees were for movies I haven't seen and don't plan to see. I was disappointed that there weren't more nominations or awards for Little Women, one of my favorite movies from last year, but I was surprised and pleased that Parasite did so well. Besides having liked the movie I thought Bong Joon-ho was gracious and charming in his acceptance speeches (interpreter Sharon Choi was also lovely and skilled), and it was really exciting to me that a movie not in English could win Best Picture. (I would've been even happier if that history-making film had been Alfonso Cuarón's Roma last year but okay.)
This afternoon I saw some friends on Twitter wondering if they should see Parasite, what with it being pretty violent and their not having liked his previous film Okja. I haven't see Okja (or Snowpiercer or The Host) but I faced similar uncertainty last month, being a person who usually tries to avoid very violent movies but also wanting to know what all the fuss was about with this one. In the end I decided to be brave and ended up being really glad I'd gone to see it in the theater.
So this is my post about whether you should see Parasite! I will try to do this without being super spoilery, but I actually agree with some folks who say it's good to go into this without knowing much about it, because the plot twists are part of the pleasure of it. I will spoil for Get Out though because that's my favorite horror movie and strongest point of comparison. Anyway if you don't want any spoilers the short version is yes! If your tastes are similar to mine you will probably like Parasite. It's got some violence but is also super interesting and well made.
Oh, and also I would like to recommend the website doesthedogdie.com, where you can look up whether movies and TV shows contain specific unpleasant things like animal harm, needles, fat jokes, etc. (No pets die in Parasite.)
( A comparison with Get Out )
Actually the first half of Parasite reminded me a lot of one of my favorite Brazilian movies, The Second Mother, so if you would like to see a good movie about family intimacy and class inequality with subtitles and no violence I recommend that one, which is streaming on Hulu. Oh and for that matter there's the Mexican movie Roma, streaming on Netflix, which has police shooting at protestors and some other really harrowing things in it but is not anything like a horror movie.
( Okay but like, how violent is it? )
Happy to answer other questions to the best of my abilities! Or just like, we can talk about movies or the Oscars in the comments! I love movies, gosh.
