aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!! parasite!!!!

It’s easy to say, “Who gives a shit about the Os­cars?” and I agree with a lot of the sen­ti­ment be­hind that.

There’s a very good ar­gu­ment to be made that rich old white peo­ple (men) with lots of mon­ey pull the strings, and Hol­ly­wood is a club you ain’t part of, and these are all first world prob­lems and con­cerns. It’s not wrong.

But it’s not en­tire­ly cor­rect, ei­ther. Film­mak­ing is an art, and all the in­fi­nite tal­ent it en­tails – from act­ing to edit­ing to sound mix­ing to cos­tumes to di­rect­ing, the list goes on – are poured into cre­at­ing that art. It’s a way peo­ple ex­press them­selves and share their sto­ries and get their voic­es heard. And when we con­sume that art, it not only brings us joy in our lives, but we also see and hear these mes­sages. We hope­ful­ly learn some­thing. And, when we are able to see our­selves in that art, we form an even deep­er con­nec­tion. We be­come in­spired. Maybe it stirs some­thing in us to make art, too.

This is why rep­re­sen­ta­tion is im­por­tant. It’s not about putting POC in moves just for the sake of putting POC in movies so we can check a box. It’s not about see­ing a film in an­oth­er lan­guage just be­cause it’s a ‘for­eign’ film (the Acad­e­my has since changed that cat­e­go­ry to ‘in­ter­na­tion­al,’ a marked im­prove­ment). It’s not about mak­ing sure every dif­fer­ent group gets a tro­phy.

It’s about the art we con­sume show­ing us the world we live in and who we share it with. In­spir­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of peo­ple who aren’t just one race or cul­ture or gen­der or sex­u­al­i­ty. Mak­ing peo­ple feel con­nect­ed and seen and heard. Strength­en­ing our bond as hu­mans and shar­ing the things we love.

Par­a­site was the best film I saw in 2019.

It is eas­i­ly one of the best films I’ve ever seen and is one of my ab­solute fa­vorites. Every win it took Sun­day was more than de­served and I think it’s in­cred­i­ble that it beat out the more pre­dictable and typ­i­cal front run­ners that tra­di­tion­al­ly take these awards. Bong Joon-Ho made his­to­ry this week and I hope we see more of this hap­pen­ing.

Also, here’s
emily’s al­ter­nate os­car categories/wins

best ac­tress nom­i­nat­ed for a dif­fer­ent film but should have won it for this one in­stead:
Flo­rence Pugh in Mid­som­mar

best use of a song that for­ev­er changes how we think about it now:
Lu­niz’ I Got 5 On It, Jor­dan Peele for Us

hav­ing to put up with adam san­dler, which, in and of it­self, de­serves an award:
Id­i­na Men­zel

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2020 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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