The Korean thriller is the kind of film Hollywood studios don’t make any more — and the Academy overlooked even when they did
is a stylish and atmospheric thriller, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, from the Korean master Park Chan-Wook , about a hard-bitten homicide detective, bored in his marriage, who falls under the spell of a beautiful Chinese widow who may, or may not, have murdered her husband.
Such speculation would of course miss the point of the Oscars, which have never been and are not intended to be a celebration of the best films released in a twelve-month period, whether American or otherwise — but rather a meretricious jewellery-jangling jamboree designed specifically to promote mainstream Hollywood product in the global marketplace as well as, more dismayingly, rhapsodising the “values” of the Academy, most essentially the value of self-congratulation.
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