Hocus Pocus

(2/10/20) Korean movie ‘Parasite’ was awarded Oscars biggest accolades last night. With high expectations, I went to see it tonight, hoping for enlightenment. Turns out this movie is so moronic it should be re-named ’Oscars With No Clothes’. Its plot (about wealth gap) is so juvenile that if you watch the movie at face value, you’ll pull your hair out. By justifying poor people‘s need to be con artists simply because they are poor, this movie ridicules poor people through the ages. It insults millions and millions of poor people who have succeeded by hard work, faith, fortitude and good judgment. This 2-hour movie is as ridiculously boring as it insults intelligence. Its ‘suspense’ is so infantile only Koreans will find it funny. In my view, Oscars awards ‘best picture’ to this movie not for its acting (very mediocre) nor for its script (idiotic) but because it takes a swipe at America through myriad covert symbolisms. Those symbolisms purport to MOCK America’s wealth and naïveté, a country that is immensely rich but easily manipulated, divided and infiltrated. Even when terrorism is lurking under its nose, says this Korean movie, America is still gleefully oblivious - until bloodbath and mayhem occur on its soil. What an over-simplistic way to look at America. By awarding the biggest accolade to this moronic movie, Oscars judges are pseudo-intellectuals ‘with no clothes’. Thankfully, not many got duped - NONE in my cinema. Viewers were just stunned by how hyped up this movie is.