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Did this deserve to win Best Picture?


Yes, it was the best made film. The directing was incredibly precise and effective, a joy to watch.

Whatever politics you boomers want to conjure up out of the circumstances are irrelevant to the question formulated in the title.

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Why are you calling me, "you boomers"? Anyway, it was a great movie, best of the ones I watched, though I haven't yet seen all the contenders.

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Yes - for me it’s the best winner of the century and possibly the best since the 1970s. A great film.

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I liked the film, but I didnt love it. Had it been more credible, and more realistic I would have loved it..For example , the film Buitiful depicted social and economic differences in a realistic way. That film still haunts me. Yet this film will not, and I wouldnt rewatch it in a few years.

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Good movie, but if it was the same movie, but in English, it would of never of won.

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Probably not, but who knows... so many mediocrities have won over the years that a genre-hopping film as cleverly plotted as Parasite may still have taken off in English. It is more Western in its structure and sensibilities than many Asian films, which no doubt helped it become such a hit.

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It wasn't my favorite movie of 2019 (of the few I've seen so far).

I don't really have a problem with it winning, though. It was still really good.

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