You’re right: the streaming age compresses memory. A film can win Best Picture, make global bank, spark backlash from the highest office in the land, and still drift from collective consciousness within a year. The churn rate is staggering.
Class isn’t architecture. It’s volatility disguised as order. Maybe others have said it, but not enough: Parasite lets the marginalized slip, scheme, survive, and still grants them humanity.
Thank you for writing this, and for weaving in your story.
And yeah, I feel like we don't have cult movies anymore -- something became a cult movie because of revenue streams. We don't have those anymore. So it goes to theaters, then it goes to streaming, that's it. A bit depressing -- something like "Repo Man" would never catch on today.
Long overdue for a Parasite rewatch myself. Iirc, this was the one that managed to gently nudge my media literacy awake, so I can only imagine what I'd make of it now.
Not passionate about The King's Speech one way or another, but I was fond of how the relationship between Bertie and Lionel took notions of class to task, together with Bertie's stammer acting as a sort of forced human element that defies the sheen of the monarchy, and indeed the system built from and around it.
That's an interesting takeaway from The King's Speech. All I took away from I were those incompetent camera angles. I perhaps-irrationally hated that one.
You’re right: the streaming age compresses memory. A film can win Best Picture, make global bank, spark backlash from the highest office in the land, and still drift from collective consciousness within a year. The churn rate is staggering.
Class isn’t architecture. It’s volatility disguised as order. Maybe others have said it, but not enough: Parasite lets the marginalized slip, scheme, survive, and still grants them humanity.
Thank you for writing this, and for weaving in your story.
Thank you for your kind words.
And yeah, I feel like we don't have cult movies anymore -- something became a cult movie because of revenue streams. We don't have those anymore. So it goes to theaters, then it goes to streaming, that's it. A bit depressing -- something like "Repo Man" would never catch on today.
Streaming offers everything, but shelters nothing.
Cult is just a category now.
Miller said it best: “The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”
Interestingly enough, I actually really like “The King’s Speech” and have utilized clips from it in my Public Speaking classes in the past.
Long overdue for a Parasite rewatch myself. Iirc, this was the one that managed to gently nudge my media literacy awake, so I can only imagine what I'd make of it now.
Not passionate about The King's Speech one way or another, but I was fond of how the relationship between Bertie and Lionel took notions of class to task, together with Bertie's stammer acting as a sort of forced human element that defies the sheen of the monarchy, and indeed the system built from and around it.
That's an interesting takeaway from The King's Speech. All I took away from I were those incompetent camera angles. I perhaps-irrationally hated that one.