After a whirlwind awards season that wound up seeing the film net Best International Film, as well as Best Picture, at this year’s Academy Awards, the dark comedy has a new accolade to call its own: it’s the #1 film to have ever streamed on Hulu in the realms of independent and international cinema.
Records are made to be broken, and when a movie like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite happens to break one of those high water marks, it feels like cinema is vindicated.