As with Anora, it portrays a cretinous lower-classes for bougie projection
The coffee table sequence failed as suspense; The massacre incoherent: Bong replaces pleasure with narrative authoritarianism.
Granted, Parasite effectively sells its real estate. (Baker peddles tits, ass, and vulva for Oscars—a bargain at $6M in Hollywood!)
“Is this a dream?”
That’s a query in the comments during the cut-to-black interlude (to pad the time to >60 min feature length).
Beat takes the piss out of genre nihilism, querying form and genre codes through slapstick absurdism.
The commenter’s question signals sophistication, but also demands greater pleasures.
Rebels of the World Unite (and Take Over)
Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire
“I’m ready to leave this life behind,” says Kai (Charlie Hunnam) to Kora (Sofia Boutella). A woman with a mysterious past, Kora employs him as a space pilot for a dangerous but righteous mission against the brutal soldiers of the rapacious Mother World in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part 1: A Child of Fire. Although the line denotes that Kai…
#Anora: The (second) worst movie of the year. Easily the worst movie to win the Palme.
The faux hysterical spectacle of the lower classes behaving like animals, the pov of elite condescension given the veneer of “reality,” of formless farce.
Is semiotics dead? Cinema is dead.
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