I was told that Parasite was a trenchant class allegory and instead it's a quirky heist film. A good quirky heist film! but I was a little wrong footed.
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holy fuck doesn't this movie ever end? It's like the fucking lord of the rings
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"It's not great" my son says. I understand why it won all the oscars now; . super heavy handed confused class politics with tons of syrup tossed about indiscriminately at the end.
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oscar films are just never good, is the moral.
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it is really not about class exploitation in any straightforward way. and absolutely not about class solidarity at all; the family just enthusiastically fucks over all their peers.
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I really enjoyed the first half where it's a frothy heist movie, but the reversal where it's suddenly Serious About Poverty by throwing in murder and bloodshed is...bleh.
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...It's about poverty from the very first scene where they're in the half-basement and the fumes are coming in
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of course it's about them being poor. but that's not the same as having some sort of insightful class politics. It's a Wonderful Life is about being poor too.
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It's A Wonderful Life had a deus ex machina that was, in a sense, about solidarity (if not strictly speaking class solidarity than cultural solidarity among "decent ordinary folk") Bong's obsession is with how such things fail or are fake in the first place
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
i havent seen Parasites, but Snowpiercer was clearly Bong saying just that "stop pretending this shit is about a romantic poor people fighting The Good Fight, the sistem is more complex and changing it maybe will recure BRAKING COMPLETEL FROM IT", it was not subtle about it
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