Minari

There was a great deal of controversy when the Golden Globes, in all its infinite wisdom, placed Minari in the Foreign Language category (the same thing happened to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell just over a year ago). Dubbed racist, this is a binary and robotic following of their rigid rules from the Golden Globe committee who seem to struggle with the idea that a film in a different language can still be American (it’s becomes more controversial as they didn’t place the likes of Inglorious Bastards into the same category). There’s nothing “foreign” about Minari as its an American film about a very real American ideal. An ideal which has, for centuries, tempted people from all over the world to the prosperous lands of the United States of America, each of whom contributed to the story of America’s relationship with its immigrants.