Bong Joon Ho's worldwide famous, multiple academy award-winning thriller film Parasite was recently featured as the number one greatest film of the 21st century by The New York Times.
In a poll conducted by the NYT after speaking with over 500 filmmakers, actors and other noted personalities in Hollywood, the list of 100 best films were made which featured several critically acclaimed films including Memories of a Murder, Wall-E, Gladiator, Gravity, The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring and more, but Parasite was named as the undisputed winner.
The other films in the top ten list include Mulholland Drive, There Will Be Blood, In the Mood for Love, Moonlight, No Country for Old Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Get Out, Spirited Away and The Social Network.
NYT called the film "A tale of haves and have-nots, and a ferocious rebuke to the devastations of neoliberalism" and said that director Bong Joon Ho "fluidly shifts between broad comedy and blistering social satire throughout, then lights it all on fire with a paroxysm of tragic violence that’s as stunning as it is inevitable."
Parasite, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, became the first Korean film to win its top prize, the Palme d'Or. The film won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It earned three more Oscar awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. The film's legacy stands strong with its relevant themes of class conflict, social inequality and wealth disparity.
The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, and Lee Jung-eun, and revolves around a poor family who infiltrate the life of a wealthy family and the issues they face to earn the life of their desires.
