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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Replying to @nberlat @Mad_Science_Guy
It's stable for the Parks, it's not stable for their staff That's kind of the point, the housekeeper *thought* she had a stable situation with her previous employer, the great architect Namgoong, and then he threw everything into chaos by moving to Paris
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And when she loses her job, (through no fault of her own) it literally becomes a matter of life and death for her husband who is in danger of starving.
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Replying to @wfrolik @arthur_affect and
2. And the Kims are literally one heavy rainstorm away from homelessness.
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it absolutely portrays poverty. I don't really think that's the same as having a class politics.
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You seem to be saying that to have class politics a film has to posit a positive pathway toward revolutionary change, and while unlike other people I'm not against such things existing I certainly don't think that should be a general standard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Like they did an interview with Bong about whether he makes "political" films and he specifically stated he was uninterested in using film as a "political platform" as such
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Parasite feels hopeless because living in our society feels hopeless -- whether it actually is hopeless and what we should do about it to make it not hopeless (and whether conveying hopelessness is "healthy" or "pro-revolutionary") is not in what he sees as his remit as an artist
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It didn't feel hopeless to me. It mostly felt irritating.
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I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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