Finally saw Parasite this week. For me, the coda works as 100% metaphor; that's when it hit me, watching, that capitalism, once it gets in our heads, takes us away from each other. How many people alive today didn't have much of their fathers in their life, because we all deemed it necessary that he leave to work every day, all day? And…
Finally saw Parasite this week. For me, the coda works as 100% metaphor; that's when it hit me, watching, that capitalism, once it gets in our heads, takes us away from each other. How many people alive today didn't have much of their fathers in their life, because we all deemed it necessary that he leave to work every day, all day? And that's the situation at the end: Father buried in the bowels of this world, hitting a button; son hallucinating himself delivering on dad's sacrifice in the future, so all can be together as originally intended. That is, I bet, the story of many or even most Americans -- or I mean to say, that's the story *when our system works the way it is designed to.*
Finally saw Parasite this week. For me, the coda works as 100% metaphor; that's when it hit me, watching, that capitalism, once it gets in our heads, takes us away from each other. How many people alive today didn't have much of their fathers in their life, because we all deemed it necessary that he leave to work every day, all day? And that's the situation at the end: Father buried in the bowels of this world, hitting a button; son hallucinating himself delivering on dad's sacrifice in the future, so all can be together as originally intended. That is, I bet, the story of many or even most Americans -- or I mean to say, that's the story *when our system works the way it is designed to.*