After reading it, I suddenly stopped at one point.
Feng Junhao likes to describe the bottom of society as a group of parasites that do not work. Whether it is in Snowpiercer or Parasite, these bottom groups of society are basically a group of people who cannot produce any positive value for society. Although this is far from the actual society and is essentially a poisonous weed, the narrative built on it gives us a new perspective on the division and existence of human classes.
The narrative of revolution, our propaganda, has always put enslavement and oppression together.
If we separate the two, let us not consider enslavement, which gives the revolution a natural legitimacy. Simply speaking from being oppressed, that is, the people at the rear of the train in this film, their contribution to the entire train may only be those poor children who go to spare parts for the machine. Or as a middle-class alternative, say Mr. Violin. The rest, this group of people has no sense of existence to the whole train. Suppose this premise exists.
Judging from the interpretation of the film, human beings, as a group that share the same destiny, even if they are simply oppressed, are enough to generate the legitimacy of revolution. This is also the meaning of the word equality to human beings. Even if they are social parasites, even if they hate each other and insult each other, this is not a reason for group oppression. Human beings naturally enjoy equal rights.
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