right. but again, empathy isn't really solidarity. like, vague guilt about fucking this guy over isn't a sense of shared struggle.
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Replying to @nberlat @Mad_Science_Guy
Right, solidarity does not exist in this story, that's the tragedy
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It's actually very clear that it would not have been difficult for the Kims and the housekeeper to come to a truce thanks to the MAD they have against each other once they know each other's secrets -- leaving some food for the guy is no big deal, the housekeeper did it for years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy
she's likely to be somewhat pissed they poisoned her ot make her lose her position it seems like.
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Replying to @nberlat @Mad_Science_Guy
Well, yes, they both start escalating once the Kims' secret comes out but she's the one who's pretty consistently on the side of pleading for her husband's life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy
and they make common cause and then what?
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Replying to @nberlat @Mad_Science_Guy
Well, that would be a happy ending to the movie, which is why it can't be allowed to happen If you mean the fact this isn't a long-term stable situation -- the Parks could always move, the little kid is slowly twigging to what's going on, etc -- that's also part of the theme
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy
no, I mean it is a stable situation, pretty much. the thing about capitalism that is kind of terrifying is that it's quite stable.
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it's a fun heist, and then it's a metaphor about shit flowing downstream, and then it's the repressed coming back to murder everyone on the kid's birthday. Is there an understanding of capitalist exploitation there exactly?
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It’s social class exploitation rather than explicitly capitalist exploitation. We’re talking about upper class bourgeois salary workers and their hired help not any actual capitalists after all.
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No, Mr. Park is the owner of a company
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Ah right, I forgot. But although the help are his employees they are not his company’s employees. The class relations are due to his wealth and social status. This is aristocratic exploitation, with capitalist exploitation at a remove. Wealth/social inequality is the villain.
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Well, sure, and Mr Kim is a failed capitalist (they're in the place they are because he got sucked into the dream of "starting and growing a business you can retire on" and ended up with nothing but debt)
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