Madison Brown, Art & Life The Academy Awards made history on Sunday by giving the Best Picture award to Bong Joon-ho’s "Parasite," the first international film to receive the award. The South Korean film’s historic win has earned it the fifth highest-grossing international film spot under “Pan’s Labyrinth,” according to the AV Club. Bong Joon-ho’s film not only won Best Picture, but it also won Best International Feature Film. This is the first Oscar for the country of South Korea. Joon-ho is also the first director to earn the three biggest awards consecutively: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture--since 2007’s winner “No Country for Old Men.” On top of all this, this is the first year that Joon-ho has been nominated for and has received an Academy Award. The film follows the Kim family as they struggle to make ends meet, going as far as to fold pizza boxes for an extra dollar. When an opportunity arises for the youngest son, Ki-woo, to become an English tutor for the wealthy Park family, he realizes the potential that lies for his other family members. Using trickery and fraud, the Kims become employees of the Parks, acting as if they had never met one another. When the old housekeeper for the Park family comes back to the house to retrieve something she left behind after being let go, the Kim family slowly finds out that they can’t keep their secret from the Parks much longer. The film talks about the class difference between people in poverty and people with major wealth. The Kims live in a semi-basement apartment, or a banjiha, which is seen as a sign of poverty in South Korea. Mr. Park starts to complain to his wife about Mr. Kim’s smell, saying that he smells “like an old radish,” or “when you boil a rag.” This smell is to show the separation of wealth between the two families.
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