In doing so he beat out films like 1917, Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and people such as Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. It was a big night for the Oscars, a big night for international cinema, but mainly a huge night for Joon-Ho who, in a very human display of ‘holy shit, what now?’, proceeded to giggle, smile and apologise for winning so much. It’s infectious and heart warming so enjoy these reactions of someone just having the best night of their lives. 

Here’s Bong Joon Ho winning Best Original Screenplay with Han Jin Won, and having a little moment while Won gives a speech. 

Still having a moment. 

He had little trouble processing the whole ‘winning Best Director’ thing. 

Which is mainly because he got a standing ovation, which can take a moment to settle in for the best of us. 

In Joon-Ho’s own words after the awards: 

Here he is saying he’s going ‘drink until next morning’, then getting lost trying to leave the stage but not caring in the slightest. Who would with four Oscars? 

Yes, four. 

So many in fact, that he apologised to the engravers for giving them so many to do. Basically, well done Bong, you’ve earned it.

Bong Joon Ho wasn’t the only winner last night, with Joaquin Phoenix also picking up the Best Actor award for Joker. Check out our interview with him below.

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Parasite starts off as something of a mirror-image to last year’s Palm d’Or-winner Shoplifters, introducing us to the Kim family, barely getting by as they share a cramped basement with scurrying bugs. Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) and his wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin) are out of work, as are their twentysomething daughter Ki-jung (Park So-dam) and teenage son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik). Days are spent holding their phones to the ceiling in an effort to piggyback free WiFi, while evenings attract weaving drunks who urinate against their street-level window.

Then Ki-woo gets a break, replacing his friend as the tutor for Da-hye (Jung Ziso), the daughter of wealthy entrepreneur Mr. Park (Lee Sun-kyun) and his sweet, naïve wife (Cho Yeo-jeong). Ki-woo is a smash hit, and slyly suggests his sister, pretending she’s a college acquaintance, when Mrs. Park says she’s also in need of an art tutor for her younger son, Da-Song (Jung Hyeon-jun). The pattern is set, and some crafty conniving soon sees the older Kims replace the Parks’ driver and housekeeper.

This first half of Parasite is a con movie made by a connoisseur, its moving parts elegantly fitted together until all of the players have gravitated to the Parks’ spacious, modernist home. The second half is about then tearing everyone apart again, though just how that happens should be discovered for yourself. It’s not in a manner you might imagine, with Parasite throwing a curveball to set things off. Put another way, if the Kim family is, in one reading of the title, a parasite living off its fat host having buried deep inside, then something happens that is the narrative equivalent of the chestbursting scene in Alien.

Scenes at once amusing and tense follow, with the film maintaining its formal sophistication even as Bong’s seething anger at the state of things bubbles to the surface. Interestingly, Parasite is shot by Kyung-pyo Hong, the DoP of last year’s excellent competition entry Burning, and the two films share much in common – not least how they retain a placid beauty as they burn with rage while grappling with class divides and social aspirations. Another comparison point is Jordan Peele’s Us, for the Kims might almost be seen as the subterranean doppelgängers of the Parks, no longer willing to be invisible.

Like Us, Parasite refuses to go the easy route of making its Haves unlikeable people so that we might desire their destruction by the Have Nots. It is cleverer than that, playing with our sympathies and switching them this way and that, just as it builds to a demented set-piece finale only to then blindside us with a poignant coda.

The Verdict

5

5 out of 5

Parasite

Bong has once more proved what an exciting filmmaker he is, and Parasite is strong contender for Oscar Best Picture

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