well, then, if you make Tar, it will read similar to haneke.

but haneke's interest is a scathing critique about the bourgeoise (i'd agree with you on that), all the way through. and though field notices and presents the (evil)constitutive power of the elite/hierarchy (it creates Tar/destroys Lydia, and those around her), he's more compassionate, more interested in opening a space for discussion/thinking (rather than polemic), and, on a substantive level, finds something valuable in high culture. (obviously the ending is a big goof on lydia: she's reduced conducting video game scores (and she can't even dictate the tempo) -- she's been flattened and humiliated. and yet, she is someone with great integrity (in at least a narrow way) and great passion for music-- she focuses on that score as if it were mahler. and she's presented as the alternative to our current cultural horizon: dorks cosplaying monster hunter.)

you certainly can have your feeling on the characters, but i couldn't imagine watching lydia in her childhood room, watching the bernstein tapes, realizing that her purported tutelage from bernstein, which she previously had just droned on and on about, is just those public television productions, realizing that she's a fraud as much as any fucking annoying zoomer, that everything is self-made narrative/fiction, that she had to alienate herself from her childhood memories wherein she fell in love with music, i couldn't imagine watching that not feeling sympathy for her.