or how the strength of Cinema will bring our societies steps further

published on16 February 2020 bydaeronmalnwe

All the world already knows: Parasite won as Best Picture at the 92th Academy Awards. An exceedingly deserved award, which has not only the credit to have properly brought under the spotlight a magnificent movie, but which is going to change the way the whole Hollywood will look forward for the future candidates.

Winning this award has meant to create a significant precedent for the next assignments, opening the doors to a scenario very unpredictable before. From now on, all the the biggest industries all over the globe would have the concrete chance to compete and to win the coveted award. And not for still now there weren’t valuable candidates among foreign language movies. Take a list of all the Best foreign language movie awarded in the past years. Could you find at least one which could have been awarded instead of the one who really passed the line? I’ve found many. This to demonstrate that quality could have been found yet. The only difference this time has been the will to show the right courage. A courage that in the long time could bring more substantial changes over the ones we immediately see.

Indeed Academy Awards voter members just shown us a pale courage, after all Parasite was awarded practically everywhere. But that was enough. Given the easy rules of eligibility to Academy Awards, some of whom are that movies must be portrayed at least in US cinemas and between a given amount of time (typically the year before assignments), it’s easy to understand that from now on there won’t be any kind of obstacole to any to reach the most important, at level of world visibility, movie award. And visibility is a valuable token to increase revenues, giving filmmakers a powerful weapon to force their producers to distribute movies inside US borders.

As suggested by Chung-sook, money leads all the choices. But this time, it could vehiculate a different kind of message. In a world leads only by just causes and not by profit, we couldn’t even ask the question; in that kind of world we did not even had a movie like Parasite, we just didn’t need it. Here resides the paradox and the truly aim of the strength of cinema: changing the world piece by piece just narrating it.

In our world, the effectiveness of money is undisputed. And as Parasite characters show us how to infiltrate inside a strict circle of wealth and luxury, the movie itself will head a little revolution in our society. If winning Best Picture award is now at the same time reachable to anyone and a valuable motivation to reach unthinkable audience, US foreign movie industries will be encouraged to even given a try every year from now on. The only limitation is to find a way to distribute the movie in the US cinemas. And money will occur to solve the problem.

From a different perspective, this little silent revolution could become more clear: distributing foreign movies would begin to change, in time, the offer itself, which could obviously become more rich and more varied. Even further, this different offer will reach even a different kind of public, which is naturally less interested, as foreign languages movies are wrongly considered a pure heritage of a more cultured public. So this richness of perspectives and of varied ideas will flow in our everyday lives to become the key source to let our sights spreading wider and our societies stepping further, to a more inclusive and fair model , and Cinema could take back its role as a vehicle of distant but not so different horizons.

And all of this thanks to money.

I’ve read somewhere that as Pasite won, Trump lose. I don’t think so, as at the time I’m writing US President has not changed. I’m a not pure dreamer, I’m very aware that substantial changes take a lot of time to occur.

Our everyday lives are led by markets decisions and markets needs. Parasite put this statement on a stage and furthermore demonstrates that this could lead us only to a tremendous crash. The richness of money yearned by the Kims and owned by the Parks acts like a mirror for all the real Kims and all the real Parks, to then transfigure itself in a real life richness of perspectives.

Once the parasite has settled, it would change forever its host, even when the host gets finally rid of it, because its memory will last.