In recent years, society seems to be generally talking about the topic of class solidification. What is class solidification? It means that it becomes difficult to circulate among all social classes, and it is difficult for people to change their own destiny through hard work, exhaust their efforts, and find that they are just wandering around where they are, and after all, they have not been able to achieve the life they dream of. To put it bluntly, the pyramid-shaped social structure is becoming stronger and stronger, and it is increasingly difficult for the poor to become rich through conventional means.
More and more young people are aware of this status quo or trend. In Japan, a culture of low-desire society has gradually evolved among young people. People have no plans for the future, no longer have dreams, and do indifferent jobs. , to maintain basic food and clothing, and all enthusiasm is devoted to illusory culture, such as games, Internet, comics, etc. In the past two years, the Buddhist youth culture and mourning culture that have arisen among young people in the group are actually are all the same.
This is naturally not a good phenomenon, but it does exist. A generation has gradually lost the confidence and courage to achieve class leap. On the one hand, there are internal reasons, but more of it is in social development. The degree of class solidification is deepening, and the channel has become more and more Narrow and crowded, social resources are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, which is still scary.
The United Kingdom once launched a set of documentary "Seven Years of Life". The director recruited a group of children in the 1960s, including the children of the rich and the poor, to shoot some of their daily life and views on many issues. The director's original intention was just to think Recorded in advance these childhood days that may have grown into the mainstay of British society in the early 21st century, but later saw some more interesting entry points, so the documentary was made into a series, one every 7 years, until now in 2019. It's episode 9. After more than half a century, basically the rich children of those years are still rich when they grow up, while the poor are still poor, and very few have truly achieved class leap. education and the social resources that can be accessed. Of course, "Seven Years of Life" is a great series of documentaries. His existence is of great significance for understanding the British society in education, the rule of law, the evolution of population structure and many other aspects for more than half a century. Just a very small perspective.
In a word, no matter in any country or region in peacetime, there must be a problem of class solidification, but the degree is different. The solidification of stratum is naturally not a piece of iron, but the passage of the lower stratum to enter the upper stratum, as well as the understanding and integration of the stratum, there are many invisible barriers, cruel and desperate.
In my opinion, Bong Joon-ho's Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, "Parasite," actually speaks in the same way. The family living in the basement was connected to the rich by chance. With an upward nature, he "entered" the rich people's home through various means, and completed a short class crossing trip in disguise, which implied the crisis brought by deception and performance, until the last two classes. A tragic human tragedy occurred between them.
The movie "Parasite" intuitively shows the inner contradiction that is difficult to reconcile between groups with huge disparities between the rich and the poor. Under the dark story, the poor are cunning and selfish, philistine and greedy, but their situation is no choice. The rich are kind and simple on the surface, but have their own quirks but have a subconscious aversion to the poor. To put it bluntly, they are two groups of people watching fire from the other side. I was deeply impressed by the rainy night in the movie. The rich family went out for a wild trip, and the poor family who "entered" the rich family with various roles such as tutors, drivers, and servants began to let themselves go. They really regarded themselves as The owner of the family, indulgently releases his own material desires and imagines everything about the rich. The father played by Song Kanghao said that the rich are too deceitful, rich and kind, while the mother played by Zhang Huizhen immediately took over and said that the rich are not rich and kind, but because they are rich.
The movie is called Parasite, and its meaning is very clear and direct. The Song Kanghao family and the ex-nanny couple shown in the movie are like cockroaches parasitic on the wealthy class. The smell that breeds is hard to dissipate, like a cockroach that cannot see the light. It is greedy and sucks in the dark. When a beam of light hits it, it has to run around. Many scenes or scenes in the movie are extremely intuitive correspondence, or that rainy night, The rich people go home early, and the poor people run around on the ground in the living room, isn't it a true portrayal of the cockroaches?
There is no doubt that "Parasite" is cruel and desperate, as desperate as a brother. He asked the rich lady, do I belong to this place? He lamented that those rich people were always able to attend elegant places physically and mentally, but he was always timid; as desperate as his father, he finally couldn't bear the subconscious disgust from the rich class, and finally "seeking the poor" , for a lifetime to curl up like a cockroach in a dark basement. Desperate for this family, they achieved a fantastic class leap in an unconventional way, and finally broke their lives. tragedy.
In the movie "I'm not the God of Medicine", the deceiver Zhang Changlin has a line: There is only one disease in this world, the disease of poverty. In "Parasite", when a rich family is in contact with a poor family, they can always smell a smell. They can't tell what it is. They only feel that the smell is physiologically unpleasant. Just taste.
At the end of the movie, the elder brother who survived the disaster vowed that he would make more money in the future. He imagined that his family would finally "reunite after a long absence" in the rich man's mansion. Will he get his wish and become a rich man? We don't know. After watching the movie, our most intuitive feeling is probably just a wish to make money like a brother in our hearts. This instantaneous wish is really heavy.
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