Saw with the wife. Not his best work (we saw The Handmaiden last and thought it was a masterpiece) but it’s really quite funny and engaging, especially considering its length. A most sobering examination of the depredations of Capitalism (old topic) and the precarity of middle-class’ anchoring within the system (this is new stuff). The visual tone and technical execution are par excellence as with all his movies, camerawork in particular.
Some brain-droppings and spoilers after this paragraph. But check out these beautiful posters. The first two are by @JamesJeanArt who printed this on paper with “beautiful swirling mulberry fibers”.
Everyone but the owners suffer in any organization buoyed by a system that assigns value to a human being purely based on how much they can deliver profit. You want to be a good human being with all the attributes that make you human: be empathetic, charitable, humble, respect your peers. But it wears you down and leaves you with “no other choice” than to surrender big or small chunks of your humanity.
And when the system deems you worthless and discards you1, I am not sure if this arrogation of
you only so paterfamilias
And you suffer additionally due because both food stamps and nationalized, single-payer healthcare are demon-communist…↩︎