The American-Korean drama film "Minari" has won Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language at the "2021 Golden Globe Awards"!
The film has just become the second-ever Korean language film to win at the Golden Globe Awards. There is an ongoing controversy involving the film about being in America that was produced by an American director. While "Minari" was listed as a United States production, the movie's dialogue heavily contains Korean, making it eligible to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.But controversy aside, the film bagged the 'Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language' at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.
Previously, the Golden Globe Awards declared their full list of nominees for their different award categories. "Minari" was one film that took home the crown out of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. It won against Denmark's Another Round, Guatemala and France's La Llorona, Italy's The Life Ahead, and France and the United States' Two of Us.
Here's a Short Synopsis of the Critically-Acclaimed film "Minari"
"Minari" is a 2020 American drama film penned and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. The film stars talented actors, namely Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh Jung, and Will Patton. It somehow tells the story of Chung's upbringing, wherein it follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to blend in and survive in rural America during the 1980s.
"Minari" had their world premiere on January 26, 2020, at the Sundance Film Festival where it won both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. It started a 7 days virtual release on December 11, 2020, then it was released in theaters through virtual cinema on February 12, 2021, by A24. The film was dubbed as one of the ten best films of 2020 by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review.
Now, they also bagged an award at the Golden Globe Awards.
Congratulations to 'Minari'!
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Meanwhile, one Korean Film, Parasite, became the first-ever Korean language to win an award at the Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Picture - Foreign Language, and it is the box office film "Parasite" directed by Bong Joon Ho.
"Parasite" Synopsis
"Parasite" follows the story of the poor family who planned to scheme a rich family into becoming their employees and eventually infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.
The story starts with the Kim Kim family, where it consists of four members, father Ki Taek (Song Kang Ho ), mother Chung-sook (Jang Hye Jin), son Ki-woo (Choi Woo Shik ), and daughter Ki Jung (Park So Dam). They all live in a tiny semi-basement apartment, and they are struggling to make ends meet by working as pizza box folders.
One day, a friend of Ki Woo named Min Hyuk (Park Seo Joon) leaves the family a scholar's rock meant to promise wealth. Since Min Hyuk is about to leave to study abroad, he gives Ki Woo the idea to pretend as a university student to take over his job as an English tutor for the daughter of the wealthy Park family, Da Hye. The Kim family's scheme starts from here.
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Written by Liza Parker
