I agree with you, and I find this really disturbing because it's a pattern I see with pop entertainment that has a morally reprehensible message. Like Juno, an insanely popular movie that paints a rosy and socially irresponsible picture of teenage pregnancy.
I don't think people have lost their minds. I also don't think they're as dense or stupid as they seem. I think that a surprising amount of people are closet psychopaths (even to themselves), and they LOVE movies like this because they echo and validate their fucked-up values. These values are conveyed under a veneer of plausible deniability, so they can openly talk about it without fear of social repercussions from those who have more of a moral compass. Most people don't care to deconstruct movies and art.
I think you can also see this in lots of YouTube vids with millions of views, they have these weird disturbing undertones of child and infant abuse. And when I say many people are psychopaths, I don't necessarily mean in the way the DSM would define it, as a rare and special pathology. I think that this is actually an extremely ugly, basic-bitch aspect of humanity that finds its expression in polite society by watching and promoting trash like this.
I happen to think this is also why many from privileged backgrounds are drawn to this "anti-racism/sexism/genderism" media circus. Because they recognize this elitist, basic-bitch will-to-sadism in themselves, and virtue-signaling about being against it makes them feel better about themselves... also because it's a way to fit in.
tl;dr Parasite is by and for infantile twats, which are most people
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icecreamcone (6)
4 years ago
Its bizarre cause the people who dislike this movie say they dislike it cause it's "woke" and typical virtue signalling or whatever...
But this movie blatantly makes poor ppl look shitty on purpose and calls the movie "parasite", which is the typical "get a job and stop leaching off us you parasite poor people!" message.
am i missing something? cause it feels like this movie is mocking poor people and im the only one noticing it cause everybody else is saying its good cause its "woke" or its bad cause its "woke" and im the only one saying its not "woke"... its elitist and annoying.
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moviechatterer (15583)
4 years ago
Well , from what i can see it fails the "Bad guy is always the white guy" test , so it cant be woke
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icecreamcone (6)
4 years ago
Some guy in this forum site said this movie is bad because it's marxist. What in the world? This movie's pretty straightforward. Poor people are poor cause they are shitty people...how is that even marxist?
The poor are portrayed as the parasites and everyone's delusional, thinking the director is making some social commentary that both the elite rich and poor people are parasitic...and they all think he has some deep and meaningful profound social commentary about inequality...wtf? maybe cause the director's not white? I'm confused.
Everyone's gone mental.
This movie is literally saying that poor ppl have innately worse personal qualities and therefore deserve their poverty. It's not even subtle.
Western viewers are projecting their own sjw wokeness onto a foreign film's elitist message. Its quite obvious the director knows zero about real poverty due to the way in which he disgustingly caricatures poor people in this movie.
The rich people in this movie were pretty one dimensional but at least they werent portrayed as murderous con artists.
Also it's kind of interesting to note that this movie didnt do well in Korea..maybe its cause Koreans can intuitively sense the movie's annoying message as they understand the original language?
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