Much love to Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Archie Medewke, Linus Sandgren, and the many other cast and crew who did great work on this film to make it at least watchable. 

That being said, instead of going into depth about this insipid, regressive, obvious, shallow, artless, problematic hell of a movie I will instead make a small list of films that completely eclipse this movie’s flaccid attempt at class commentary: 

The Working Class Goes…

Scavenger Hunt 53

Lost Highway exudes a rare sense of anxiety you seldom see in most films. It’s a kind of palpable feeling of internal struggle. It raises your heart rate and makes you sweat. As a person with serious anxiety, it would make most assume that I would not want to exacerbate my anxiety by watching a film that’s practically a panic attack in film form. But I relish the opportunity. It’s such an experience to feel these emotions based…

Moms are the ultimate badasses 

Bong Joon-Ho is a master of shifting tones. Many scenes can be interpreted as either disturbing and suspenseful or comical and charming. This gives his films such a unique “taste,” which makes the film intensely engrossing. He knows exactly when to build tension and when to release it, but you never fully feel relieved as the story progresses. 

I also appreciate the subject matter, it’s clear to me that Joon-ho understands the perspective of motherhood…