Parasite was a goddamned bullhorn and people still didn't get it!
Literally can't hit people over the head with a giant rock sized metaphor in the third act for some people to get it.
I watched that movie with my Dad who's a Trump supporter and after the sequence at the end where the son imagines getting rich and buying the house my dad yelled out "Why wasn't that your plan from the beginning?" It doesn't matter how obvious a movie's message is, it will be misunderstood by those who don't want to hear it.
Yeah absolutely. I always go back to Starship Troopers. They literally have NPH walk out in full SS regalia during a Nazi funeral and people still don't get it if they don't want to.
People don't know what anti-capitalism even looks like, so they don't recognize it. Even anti-capitalist leftist fall into liberal/capitalist tactics trying to combat it. Shit's ingrained yo.
people didn't get the hunger games. it was as unsubtle as possible, and they still sold a capital line of jewelry and people dressed up as effie trinket and caesar flavian or whatever on the news and did not at all introspect they were doing exactly what the evil people were doing.
It's not about not getting it at this point it's about not THINKING about it. They do not look beyond the face value. There is not massage only entertainment. They watch this shit with no in dept though behind what's a actually going on. That what capitalism does to your brain.
Damn I didn't know it was an allegory for capitalism, I thought it was just saying living in South Korea sucked
South Korea has been absolutely gutted by capitalism. That's why there are so many movies and shows from there that seem to say "life sucks and you can't win without divine help."
And yet it's the number one example neolibs love to bring up with how their ideology and American imperialism "works".
it's the same with japan. It's because they don't need to destroy the landscape for resources, so the technological growth counts as a "good" thing.
See also:
Hong Kong (lol)
Taiwan/reddit island (look at the number of Taiwanese working in China; IIRC Taiwanese millennials are relatively miserable and pessimistic about their future)
Singapore/neolib island (only elites and high-income immigrants love it; the citizenry think it's a miserable place. They also abuse their lower-wage migrants, typical neolibs)
Etc etc etc
yeah. The west talks a big game about it's asian colonies, but just doesn't have the numbers to back it up. Also I thought you were referring to the actual reddit island for a second.
actual reddit island
Wait what's that? I thought it was Taiwan, since :reddit-logo: is obsessed with them (owning le see see pee)
a couple times some redditors have tried to get an island so they could start their own country. It's like those roving money pits from tumblr back in the day except way more smug and less likely to admit they got scammed. I watched a video about it, it was pretty ableist in it's language so I won't recommend it. The information probably is out there on youtube, or you could look it up on reddit.
Would expect nothing less from the galaxy brains at :reddit-logo:
I once had someone on :reddit-logo: tell me I was making shit up for saying korean people felt crushed by capitlaism
I can't remember if it explicitly got used in the show, but the second episode about their lives outside the games is titled 'Hell'
it’s very loosely anti-capitalist, kind of insane how people are calling it a leftist swan song
The berniecrats are desperate for anything to latch on to, and since reading theory is out of the question, we end up with 2017 woke movie discourse
Seriously, it's so incredibly desperate. 'OMG movie from wealthy nation depicts people not having healthcare and life sucking :CommiePOGGERS:'
haven't watched it yet, but it reminds me when Avatar was breaking box office records. Some leftists were hailing it as some Anti-Imperialist masterpiece, lol it had no effect on 'Murican perception of their evil empire. Palestinians even painted themselves blue while protesting, it made the news for maybe a few minutes. I no longer get excited about these popular media that hints at some leftism.
Imagine how frustrating it would be to write a novel about the horrors inflicted on the people who make our food, due to being a socialist, and for it to be a massive success, and then every lib that reads it pulls a "Wow cool robot" on you.
I'd grind my teeth until I needed dentures.
I'd be at least happy I was able to get my talking points in, even if they flew 3 miles over everyone's heads.
Oh fuck I work at a shoe store and we're out of slip on Vans oh god oh fux
Also Vans recently stopped supplying us and then squid game came out bumping up the demand :side-eye-1:
I'm sorry for your upcoming stream of angry Customers who can't have le epic netflix series shoes
Dont worry everyone who comes in to buy converse, Van's, etnies or Globe will usually end up dissapointed
Who wears this shit during the fall? These would look like dog ass the moment I pass the front door.
You can get a scotch guard-type spray for shoes to keep them cleaner. Also it only rains a few days each winter in some parts so that’s not as much of a consideration.
Just buy another brand of white slip on shoe, damnit. Maybe one that actually has decent arch support.
it's almost Halloween and it's the hot media property, it's not that weird
I was thinking about going as it because I'm uncreative as fuck and it would be easy to do.
Haven't seen the show or heard much about it, anyone care to explain it?
I'm only on the fourth episode but some shady group finds hundreds of desperate people who are hopelessly in debt and gets them to play a bunch of games where the losers end up being brutally killed, and the winners will win enough to forgive their debt. Before the first game the participants didn't know they could be killed, but even after they find out the vast majority of them stay for more because of their desperate financial situation.
Also the second episode is about how desperate they are under capitalism and how poverty traps people and strips them of their dignity
...by forcing them to murder each other as their only hope to get out of poverty, right?
And it's still this lost on people? Hopeless.
Yeah. Everyone I know that is talking about it never mentions how it's an allegory for how fucked up capitalism is.
Hell. The guy who wrote the script himself seemed to be in a pretty bad place and it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" story rather than the anti-capitalist one that I'm sure the writer intended it to be.
it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a “pick yourself up by the bootstraps” story
Survivorship bias is so strong, and it's so hard to disabuse people of it
Obviously the message is "hey what if this happened in real life. Would that be fucked or what"
oh yeah it really is like the kpop barracks style housing and selection system and they of course have a shot at making all that money too. Didn't make that connection before :D
White vans are awful to keep clean. Both pairs I've had got unflatteringly dirty so fast
Not going to lie, I was thinking of doing a group costume set with my friends. Four of us in the PlayStation controller button colors with corresponding symbols on our face masks. But yeah, even anticapitalist media can be used to support capitalism.
I hadn't planned on haloween but a cozy tracksuit does suit me perfectly as a costume. :comfy-cool: :spooky:
