Anyone else see this?
I ask because there's zero chance anybody I know irl would have seen this?
Any good takes?
I'm still trying to figure out my take. Bad part is it was too...boring...to watch twice. Good but...slow.
Anyway this entire world of cultured urban elite professional is so entirely alien that it was kind of awkward to watch. I don't even own a suit, I will never see a prestigious orchestra anywhere but YouTube. Even if I like classical music, which I do, these trappings make it clear it's not FOR ME.
the way these NPR rich libs are so just elite about something as raw as music. The scene where she had to help the disabled woman back in her chair and immediately went home to wash herself. They might work in passion for a profession but these people are sooo sterile.
It's attitude on cancel culture is something I'm still trying to work out. Lydia lecturing the zoomer student looked like something theys post on redscarepod. Then they slowly revealed that she was a groomer. I liked that. You wouldn't automatically put up your defense mechanisms, they convinced you she was a villain
The second half was like "yeah but the proletariat would behave the same way if they had the power". Not saying we won't, just the movie didn't acknowledge that it would actually be cool and good
eh they thoroughly establish the bourgeois (and male) characters as utter shits so the turnabout seems fair. what it really is about is material conditions and hierarchy---how hierarchies can develop from people simply having a needed/desired skill in strenuous conditions;see every military dictatorship established by a victorious general.
and also that people that originate from hierarchical society and lacking revolutionary imagination will recreate a class society, just with them at the top, given the opportunity