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Late-stage capitalism is a bad look.
As Jennifer Lopez told us inHustlers, This whole country is a strip club.
Youve got people throwing the money, and youve got people doing the dance.
The proletariat is fed up, and eventhe youth of TikTokare crying outrage at the billionaire class.
The wayParasites story unfolds from there is like a magic trick.
It alternately entertains and devastates, like a candy bar with a razor blade tucked inside.
You might say, ButAmerican Psycho?
To which youll be told, But in the end, Patrick Bateman gets to keep on keeping on.
Tis the season to be petty.
Nothing is physically stopping them from exiting, but they are still unable to cross the threshold.
Likewise, no one from the outside is able to enter and help them.
Eat lightly before you watch.
Also, Sean Connery wears a small red outfit that basically looks like the dance costumes from the 2018Suspiria.
Your money and status cant keep you safe when the people who own the dark start closing in.
Mobilize the working class!
Take back whats yours!
They just wanna rob.
And open a restaurant.
Were starting a peoples uprising.
Do you fancy joining us?
Its a messy ride, but it does culminate in Alex having her revenge on Bastards and its patrons.
The title says it all, really.
Prepare to kick ass and chew bubblegum.
This isnt a feel-good Eat the Rich movie, but sometimes you have to take your medicine.
Plug in for a longPurgemarathon.
Stoker(2013)
Park Chan-wooks only English-language movie enters this list through a side door.
Director Park is cinemas foremost purveyor of perverted domestic discord, andStokermakes antagonists of each of its characters.
Money isnt buying anyone here happiness, but the self-immolation might make us commoners feel better!
(Dont act like you didnt already do the same forAmericas Ass.
But instead of fleeing the scene, the killer decides to borrow the life of luxury around him.
High-Rise(2015)
Feeling nihilistic?
Try this black-hearted drama from Ben Wheatley!
Movies about societies organized vertically by status are such a tidy vessel for these kinds of themes.
Tensions are rising between the haves and the have-nots, and the building is buckling under the strain.
The message here:Alwaysbe good to your interns.
This one is a rager for the working men and women!
And then people start getting severely, inexplicably sick.
AfterDeer, it might be a long time before youre comfortable eating spaghetti or listening to Ellie Goulding again.
So how better to punish the greedy than having the art itself fight back?
Theres also a hobo robot art piece that kills people, so dont miss out.
Us(2019)
Do you know where your tether is?
Do you know what theyre doing now?
Have you prepared for the coming overthrow?
