I find it well and good to see Korean filmmaking receive its due with Parasite last year and Minari this year — and find Chinese-born film director Chloe Zhao to tell American stories better quite competently. She has been creating buzz since before Nomadland. Not woke pandering in these instances.
South Korean production teams are on a roll: Parasite, Train to Busan, and that recent TV series ‘Kingdom’.
Nomad movie was best picture of the year. It is nothing but Chinese hegemony. The CCP is crowing about how they are making Americans eat dirt and die. The outrage in Ohio several years ago about sheetrock imported from China. It smelled so bad the houses were all re sheet rocked by the builder. Bad quality sheet rock imported from China. The expense of importing sheetrock from China was less than the expense to make it in Ohio or anywhere else in the USA apparently. This is why US Gypsum went out of business, not because of low demand as stated as the supposition of the movie plot, but because of no future due to slave wage competition. Union wages drove US Gypsum out of business. Lack of demand described at the beginning of the movie is a movie writers idea of reality, no future for an American company is the reality crushing the USA by China, inc. The Chinese Communist Party bought the USA lock stock and barrel and the USA sold out. That’s all.
Nobody is “due” anything.
There are over a hundred countries out there, all with some pretty good movie industries. How many awards has Germany, France, The Netherlands etc won recently for example?
And how many American movies have won any awards in Korea lately?