After Parasite, Korean movie Minari is talk of Hollywood

After Parasite, Korean movie Minari is talk of Hollywood

The New Paper - Entertainment·2021-02-19 06:03

LOS ANGELES – A year after South Korean satire Parasite took Hollywood by storm, another Korean-language movie, Minari, is making waves during awards season.

Yet the two films could not be more different.

Parasite, which made history in 2020 by becoming the first film in a foreign language to win a best picture Oscar, is a dark satire about class and contemporary society in South Korea.

Minari, which opens here on March 11, is a tender, quintessentially American story about an immigrant family in the 1980s trying to better themselves by starting a farm in Arkansas. 

Unlike Parasite, it was conceived, produced and filmed in the US.

Said writer-director Lee Isaac Chung: “They speak Korean and it’s about a family and there’s some Korean culture involved, but I think this film speaks a lot to what America is. It contains a lot of people doing many different things, many different walks of life, and in that way it’s quite different from Parasite.”

An intensely personal story, the film is based partly on Chung’s own life as a boy growing up in Arkansas, but there is no satire and barely any mention of racism. 

Instead, Minari, which has already won multiple award nominations including the Golden Globes, has been widely embraced for its universal humanity. Nominations for the Oscars have not yet been announced.

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