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One of the best ways for a film to captivate and enthrall its audience is to have plenty of thrills. On July 22, Collider shared a ranking of the "6 most thrilling movies released since 2000," which highlighted a few films that are brimming with heart-pounding scenes.
Movies like 2008'sThe Dark Knight, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 from 2003, and Whiplash, released in 2014, were spotlighted on Collider's list. The publication gave the title of the "most thrilling" film from the 21st century to 2019's Parasite, which received the Academy Award for Best Picture. The publication complimented Bong Joon Ho's stylish work as the film's director and his and Han Jin-won's powerful script, focusing on classism.
In a 2020 interview with Alamo Drafthouse, Joon Ho shared that he intended Parasite, which holds a score of 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, to reflect the issues of class discrimination within South Korea.
"When directing the movie, I tried to express a sentiment specific to the Korean culture. And I thought that it was full of Koreanness if seen from an outsider's perspective," said the filmmaker during the interview.
He said, however, that he soon realized how universal classism is in all capitalist countries.
"But upon screening the film after completion, all the responses from different audiences were pretty much the same, which made me realize that the topic was, in fact, universal. Essentially, we all live in the same country, called capitalism, which may explain the universality of their responses," said Joon Ho.
He also clarified that he "didn't set out to deal with the theme of class struggle" when making Parasite or his other films, like Snowpiercer (2013).
"When we look around, however, we can identify the poor and the rich, and this disparity can be seen everywhere. In depicting their unique stories and situations, the topic emerged originally. It's not that I wanted to make a propaganda movie, nor were political themes my starting point," said the Academy Award-winning director.
