Re:For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily rea...
by Apocryphon on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:07AM
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Here is an analysis of the movie which may clear some things up for you:
Re:For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily rea...
by Aunche on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:51AM
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I skipped around, but this basically reinforces my point. The movie doesn't have the clear cut "eat the rich" narrative that people seem to imply. All the families are depicted as parasites. The poor are never excused for fighting amongst themselves.
Re:For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily rea...
by mcv on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:46AM
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Had they stopped at the tutoring, nobody would have a problem with it. It's when they started to hurt other (poor) people in order to advance that the situation turned to shit. Of course had the movie stopped at the tutoring, it would have been a boring movie. It's taking the situation to the extreme that makes it an interesting movie. I really hope that in real life, such a family would be happy to have their kids in cushy tutoring jobs and use that windfall to improve their situation.
I can tell that Dick Cheney is a shitty person, even though he donated more money than I'll make in several lifetimes to charity. Likewise, I can tell that the Kim family had poor moral character, even though they were in poverty.
> it showcases how poverty itself forces people to engage in behaviour that makes others look down on them as undeserving
I'm sure that's true to some extent in real life, but I don't see how that is portrayed in the movie. The Kim family isn't "forced" to cheat except in the beginning when they had nothing.
Equally funny as the "Protestant folk morality" is the belief that poor people 100% a product of their environment.