Imagine missing the point this much
Anyone who uses the term "fail at life" should be shot out of a cannon.
Imagine being that disconnected from reality
"If human have $$$ then human good human, but if human no have $$$ then human not human."
Replace "invitation" with "opportunity" and the blood sermon will be fully complete.
We seriously need a Moloch emote lmao
That reminds me of when I saw parasite in theatres and I overheard someone after the movie say "good movie but I don't like the politics in it"
Well, it's like 9 billion won or something, which converts to 38 million, so I think that's fair.
So I saw a video summary of the whole serie and it's just Battle Royale/Hunger Games
It's more than that. Those focus on the spectacle of direct violence as sport. This focuses more on the underlying violence of systems and the ways in which money is used to create and perpete that violence for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
The most sympathetic characters in the show are an "illegal" immigrant that's trying to get money to take care of his family after his boss refuses to pay the workers for 8 months, a DPRK defector that is for once not cartoonishly anti-comminist, and a union man who watched his friend get killed by police during a sit in strike at the factory.
They are constantly being asked what they're gonna do with the money and all give responses like "feed my family and get my mom medical care" or "buy a house for my little brother and mom". The point being that the system has failed them so hard that they're literally willing to face death in order to just make ends meet. The parallels to pandemic Frontline work is absolutely not meant to be hidden.
One of the last scenes has a background news story playing that's It's saying things like "household debt has been increasing dramatically" and "more and more families are struggling to get by" with it ending "but the good news is that GDP has risen for the 5th year in a row"
The southerner knew what she was doing, her story was honestly more horrific than the defectors. The defector was the victim of a plauge that wiped out half her village and her father was killed trying to defect, but the southerner was a victim of rape and violence from her father and was sentenced to time by the state after killing him for killing her mom.
Her one moment of freedom was the choice to drop the marble at her feet.
Wow I've been writing off this off as yet another capitalist anti capitalist movie, but this convinced me that the director is definitely a leftist.
He was a class traitor, the whole time that were all working together and he was actively working against them. At no point does he make a selfless choice.
Oh no it's not. It's Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, a Japanese comic book with an animated television series and a live action movie adaption. The similarities are too close for it to be a coincidence.
Like Kaiji if every bet was a coinflip with a masked dude holding a revolver to your head.
Are these user-written or by some people employed by the site? Either way, people in capitalist countries have been conditioned not to believe in systemic issues, and to instead see everything bad as a personal failure resulting from a lack of merit. I'd be more sympathetic to how people get fooled into thinking that way if it didn't make them malicious and condescending removed when it comes to the plight of the poor in a world of systemic hardship.
