{"id":1112152,"date":"2026-01-29T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=514960"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:34:23","slug":"rewatching-parasite-on-netflix-is-a-good-reminder-that-the-oscars-get-it-right-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/rewatching-parasite-on-netflix-is-a-good-reminder-that-the-oscars-get-it-right-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewatching Parasite on Netflix is a good reminder that the Oscars get it right sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Academy Awards<\/a> have had a spotty track record when it comes to awarding the Best Picture prize over the last couple of decades. Sure, sometimes the Academy gives the trophy to Oppenheimer<\/em><\/a>, a verifiable classic and towering achievement in storytelling, but more often than that it goes to middling or outright bad films, like Nomadland<\/em>, Green Book<\/em>, Birdman<\/em>, and Argo<\/em>, or movies time has forgotten entirely, like The Artist<\/em> or CODA<\/em>. But now that Parasite<\/em><\/a> <\/em>has arrived on Netflix, it\u2019s a great time to remind yourself that every once in a while, the Academy finds the strength to hand its biggest award to a movie that is truly special.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To say director Bong Joon-ho\u2019s black comedy about class has aged well would be an understatement. Everything about Parasite<\/em>\u2019s story of the poor Kim family conning their way into the lives of those above them (both figuratively and literally) in the Korean social strata still works wonderfully on a thematic level. But what may surprise viewers upon revisit is just how bleakly funny the movie\u2019s various sequences are.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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No series of events in any movie from the last decade is as equally tense and horribly funny as the family\u2019s poisoning of the Park family\u2019s previous maid in order to get her replaced. Director Bong weaponizes his own excellent filmmaking and clever writing to drag the audience into a terribly uncomfortable position: We spend the sequence rooting for this family to exploit this woman\u2019s allergies to steal her livelihood. It\u2019s objectively awful, but so are the family\u2019s circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Managing to keep our sympathies and the tension high for that entire scene would be impressive enough, but Bong Joon-ho manages to sustain that delicate balance through the entire film \u2014 something he seems to be continuing in his next movie, Mickey 17<\/em><\/a>, if the trailers are any indication. Plenty of movies manage to mix in elements of horror, comedy, and thriller-like tension, but most of those movies do it in different places across their run time. One of the things that makes Parasite <\/em>so terrifically unique is that every moment of the film feels infused with all these genres at once. This is also what makes it not just a worthy Best Picture winner, but a truly special one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this Parasite <\/em>praise is to say that the Academy hasn\u2019t done anything right in the last two decades. Moonlight<\/em>\u2019s Best Picture win continues to set a shining example of what the Oscars can be, and nominated alongside Parasite<\/em> were Little Women<\/em> and Once Upon a Time\u2026 in Hollywood<\/em>, both of which would have served as worthy winners. But, as we head into another month of discourse about a particularly weak crop of Best Picture nominees at this year\u2019s Academy Awards, including a few truly bleak options<\/a>, it\u2019s worth heading to Netflix to remind ourselves of how lucky we are that Bong Joon-ho\u2019s masterpiece got the recognition it deserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parasite is streaming on Netflix and available for digital rental\/purchase on Amazon and Apple TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Academy Awards have had a spotty track record when it comes to awarding the Best Picture prize over the last couple of decades. Sure, sometimes the Academy gives the trophy to Oppenheimer, a verifiable classic and towering achievement in storytelling, but more often than that it goes to middling or outright bad films, like Nomadland, Green Book, Birdman, and Argo, or movies time has forgotten entirely, like The Artist or CODA. But now that Parasite has arrived on Netflix, it\u2019s a great time to remind yourself that every once in a while, the Academy finds the strength to hand its biggest award to a movie that is truly special.\u00a0 To say director Bong Joon-ho\u2019s black comedy about class has aged well would be an…<\/p>\n

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