Episode 60: PARASITE
Listen in this week as break into the top ten with the 2019 South Korean film Parasite. It's our second straight movie about the conflict between rich and poor, but that's probably the extent of its similarities to It Happened One Night. Well, that and the fact that they're both great.
Song Kang Ho plays the head of a very poor family in Seoul. Their prospects begin to turn around as they infiltrate a very wealthy household one-by-one. And then things take a turn.
Parasite was the first and so far only non-English language film to win Best Picture. It ranks #10 on our countdown.*
Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court.
Come back next week for the number nine, Milos Foreman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
*What is this list?
We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different lists that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.