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Parasite was a good movie but the only reasons why it won the Oscar for Best Picture over 1917 is because of its message and it checking a few boxes on the diversity sheet. A foreign film had also never won Best Picture so they were going for the history aspect as well.

No. This movie not only dominated critics top 10 lists, but it also topped basically all of its competition in terms of user ratings on IMDB/Metacritic/Rotten Tomatoes/etc.

If you look at the Parasite thread on this board (prior to the Oscars), you would notice the posts from users on this site were overwhelmingly positive with many calling it the best movie of the year. It really wasn't until after it won all the oscars that all of a sudden people started calling it overrated or undeserving.

Now of course, people are free to dislike it, or have the opinion that it is overrated, but it didn't dominate the oscars or win the palme d'or because of some political statement. It was just that almost everyone who saw the movie loved it.

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Posted by UndercoverBryologist

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Posted on 5/10/21 at 9:17 am to ohiovol

“If you win best foreign film, you should automatically be invalid to win best pitcher!”

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Posted by RollTide1987

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Posted on 5/10/21 at 1:05 pm to ohiovol

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This movie not only dominated critics top 10 lists, but it also topped basically all of its competition in terms of user ratings on IMDB/Metacritic/Rotten Tomatoes/etc.

Okay. So? I never said it was a bad movie. It was quite good. However, replace the cast with white actors and I doubt the film is as well received as it was.

It most certainly loses Best Director to Sam Mendes if it had been directed by a Steve Smith or someone similarly named.

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