The Gaslighting of Parasite

Marginal Revolution ^ | 25 June 2020 | Alex Tabarrok

[kaehurowing]

My favorite recent Korean movies have been “Be With You”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8092252/

and “Little Forest” (actually a remake of a Japanese movie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Forest_(film)

[Sans-Culotte]

His take could be correct. However, sometimes lefty filmmakers intend one message and viewers get another.

I remember a thread years ago on FR about "conservative movies". A couple of FReepers recommended Serenity. I looked it up and discovered that it was a sequel to a TV series called Firefly. So, I started watching the TV series, (only 13 episodes) and then the movie Serenity. If it seemed conservative, it was probably accidental. It showed an evil futuristic state that sought to control everything about people's lives. Although a scifi show, it had an American Western vibe. The rebellious heroes were sort of modeled on Confederates who had lost a civil war.

So, great show and great follow-up movie that resonated with conservatives. However, both were created by Joss Whedon, whose political beliefs are basically the same as Rob Reiner's. I guess he made a conservative allegory without realizing it. Maybe the director of Parasite did likewise.