>>213399815Saw Parasite in theaters, loved Bong-joon Ho for decades prior so I was fucking pumped going into Parasite as the only person in my circle who had any awareness of his existence. Absolutely loved Parasite and was asked by the person I went with about predictions going into Academy Award season. I flat out said it would sweep, and it did.
But there was the problem. People started "glazing" him like he was the next coming of Christ (because he's the first notable non-white director in some time to show any degree of competency). Everyone just startedn lapping it all up and it became extremely cloying. I stopped talking about Bong joon to anyone and would never bring up his films because, despite it being a near-10/10 for me, normies STILL somehow found a way to hyper-value this both for the right AND wrong reasons simultaenesously. It kills me a little that that's how it's become for me and when my parents (avid NYT readers) turned me onto this list, one asked which I thought would be #1 before I got around to reading.
Again, flat-out "it's gonna be Parasite" but this time more dejectly, like "of course it's gonna be Parasite, these faggot NYT libs have been sucking BJH off for a decade at this point." Lo, and behold.
And the worst of all? It got to BJHs head and he immediately B-lined it for hollywoodization for Mickey 17 (also bizarrely ripped off the premise of Moon which was a genuine red flag for me, setting everything else aside).