I hope that Parasite winning this award opens the eyes of the western audience about what good cinema can be and perhaps make them aware of how vapid and devoid of substance a vast majority of Hollywood films have become.

Having seen the absurd amount of praise that a24 films get, I'm worried that these international films will begin to cater to western audiences and lose that spark that they have. It would be quite a tragic loss.

thanks for the film recommendations, i have never heard of any of those and will get them right away!

I'm sure you'll love them. They're hard to not like if you're already a fan of asian cinema. Though Blue Ruin and Thunder Road are two western indie films that do things very, very well.