I liked Parasite because it tapped into a feeling that motivates a lot of socialists and that we don't talk about nearly enough: horror. We are of course animated by love and compassion, but the other side of the coin is profound horror at the desecration of humanity.
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And werewolves, don't forget the werewolves.
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Also Gothic as a mode well equipped to discuss the dislocations of capitalism and the colonialism out of which capitalism grew, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and "Jane Eyre" both come to mind as prime examples
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The most telling moment of the film was the sex scene, where the rich couple vampirically sucked the sexual vitality of their working class help’s follies in order to actuate their own fantasies. Just so spot on.
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It's not an accident. Death is the crux of the whole thing. The other day I was Google image searching the danse macabre and thinking about how the cold reality that death comes for everyone is what makes us reverent of life, which is what makes us socialistspic.twitter.com/tMECqMenUS
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Interesting take on that here: http://gretl.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/OPE/archive/0604/att-0138/01-PoliticalEconOfTheDead.pdf …
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This sounds like Mark Fisher territory, from the Vampires Castle to the Weird and the Eerie and more
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