"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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This is something that as an American viewer I was never sure if I was missing something, and I just chalked it up to not being South Korean and having that background in my head
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Yeah I don't think it's the same in a US context, where the waves of scammy get-rich-quick self-starter businesses were so universal they're an instantly recognizable trope Maybe if they'd said something about "dotcom businesses" in the 90s, or "real estate investing" in '09
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It's a huge part of the Kims' characterization that Mr. Kim is a serial entrepreneur, part of a wave of middle-class college graduates who started tumbling down the class ladder in 1997 and whose response was to get locked into a boom-bust cycle of faddish get rich quick schemes
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It's a major moment of empathy/identification when Oh Geun-sae (the man in the basement) reveals that he had to flee from his creditors because of his "Taiwan cake shop" that got wiped out, the same scammy business model that Mr. Kim mentioned wiped him out in an earlier scene
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so he made a movie about how being poor sucks and rich people are snobs, and poor people are deceitful but fun, and they struggle and both suffer.
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Well, about how poverty creates a vicious cycle of cruelty and betrayal, yes
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I think this point deserves emphasis. The movie goes to significant lengths to show that "class solidarity" is not a cheap and easy fix, and that empathy isn't enough to get you there The dad identified with the man in the basement, but in the end saw it as his family or theirs
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A literal Prisoner's Dilemma -- either side ratting the other out is potentially disastrous, but either side *successfully* ratting the other out without getting caught would let them breathe a huge sigh of relief and finally feel safe
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