grouchy [she/her]
So common there’s a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
Very clean, I like it. I’ve been wondering if some sort of triband variation might work to incorporate the broken chain imagery that’s been showing up in other people’s versions. Glancing quickly through wikipedia, something like this with the leaf interrupting (rather than superimposed on) the middle stripe?
I feel like the words themselves imply a difference in hierarchy. Someone giving charity is in a position of power or privilege over the one receiving charity, whether intentional or not. Mutual aid is at least as much about building a community as it is about material support.
There’s something so fundamentally childish about the image even if you take it at face value. “All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.”
I have some form of number-color synesthesia, though I didn’t realize this was an actual form of synesthesia until like two or three years ago. For example, 718 looks like the Italian flag to me. Another amusing example is that I always mix up the date for Valentine’s as 2/13 because 13 has a far more appropriate color scheme than 14. In theory this is probably why I was very good at randomly memorizing birthdays, license plates, and phone numbers of acquaintances back in pre-cell phone days, but in practice…
That gets into a discussion about authorial intent and passive vs. active media consumption that I don’t feel like having rn. I probably didn’t word that very well, but my point is that the movie is internally consistent. However, I don’t think it was originally intended for international audiences, and imo it’s set up in a way that is directly challenging a very culturally specific mindset. Considering the overall success of the movie it’s obviously not impossible to approach it without those prerequisites, but because it’s tailored to a specific audience it leaves a lot of gaps to be filled in without extra guidance. That’s true of pretty much all movies though…
I mean of course the murder itself isn’t class solidarity, but it explains his motivation. In the heat of the moment, he wants revenge for his daughter and recognizes (again, too late) that her death is not solely at the hands of the guy wielding the knife, but because of the way society has pitted them against each other. It’s not supposed to be some sort of uplifting or freeing act.
I don’t think the movie is perfect precisely because it’s easy to misunderstand, but it really is very clear about what it wants to say.
because the rich fucker said he smelled bad
Nah, because he awakened too late to the necessity of class solidarity. Pay close attention to the father’s character arc. Huge chunk of the movie is about him realizing he has far more in common with the basement guy than he ever will with his employers. The smell is meant to be understood metaphorically.
The real tragedy of the movie is that in contrast, the son never comes to understand this. (And throughout the film was always the most naive character in that sense.) I think you completely misread the ending – it is pretty clear it’s a fantasy sequence.
I did wonder while watching it if some of the cultural nuances and contextual stuff would get in the way of understanding the message. But the movie isn’t ambiguous about this at all.