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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Replying to @arthur_affect @ticketdust and
I mean, sure, Bong is more interested in examining wealth through the lens of consumption than production The Tail Section Passengers in Snowpiercer aren't proles but lumpenproles (literally useless, just kept packed in there doing nothing all day)
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except for the kids. that's a pretty straightforward metaphor for capitalist exploitation, though somewhat confused since the labor leader is somehow in a massive conspiracy with the engineer.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
you know, like a lot of labour leader in the real world...
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Yeah I mean you know in the ur-agitprop piece from US theatre history, Waiting for Lefty, the point is that Lefty is dead and the union boss killed him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @theDwarf and
everyone loves conspiracy theories...
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