Hollywood can’t seem to stop talking about how a South Korean film, Parasite, defied the ‘one-inch barrier’ of subtitles to become the first foreign film ever to win the top prize at the Oscars. To me, a movie buff from India, Parasite brings new urgency to an old question: Why can’t India, the world’s most prolific producer of films, make even one good enough for an Academy award?
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The 24 million people who watched this year’s Academy Awards got to see what Hollywood has become: an industry that cares less about producing quality entertainment, and more about reinforcing a culture that puts a premium on grievance, oppression and victimhood.
Why is it set in America? Will it have a Korean cast or a white cast? There is a terrible fear that this could turn out to be just another instance where the American entertainment industry white-washes a beloved, critically-adored Asian story.
Throughout the most of human evolution both progress as well as its horizontal transmission was extremely slow, occasional and tedious a process. Well into the classic period of Alexander the Macedonian and his glorious Alexandrian library, the speed of our knowledge transfers – however moderate, analogue and conservative – was still always surpassing snaillike cycles of our breakthroughs.
'Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to many more amazing films." said Bong Joon-Ho, director of the Korean Film - Parasite.
However, multiple major agencies deny that they are in talks with the guild.
The long-awaited results are in from a survey commissioned by the UK’s Film and TV Charity on the state of mental health across the film and television industry in the region.