Yang Jin-mo

Editor, Parasite

Yang Jin-mo edited Parasite, the Bong Joon-ho film that became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture. I sat down with him to talk about the cut. That famous tonal shift, the way comedy slides into dread without you noticing the join, is built in the edit as much as the script. We got into the rhythm of Bong's films, the discipline of knowing when to hold a shot and when to cut away, and what it felt like to work on a film that changed what the Oscars would honour. Editing is the invisible craft. You feel it without seeing it, and most people never think about who did it. Yang is one of the people who proves how much of a film's power lives in that work. If you care about why Parasite moves the way it does, start here.