john

It's just that these messages are a lot broader in scope than purely class commentary. It's a movie about greed, obsession, and wanting to fit in to a world that has classed you as an outsider before you got through the door, and it explores these themes, among other things, through intersections of bigotry and entitlement along multiple axes, through the effects of loneliness and repression and what can happen when you're allowed a taste of everything you want but know it might be only fleeting.

It is a movie about how your actions are your own, regardless of whether or not someone else is doing something questionable or outright harmful at the same time - especially when you didn't even know about the other person's actions when you made your own choice to do something cruel.

And it baffles me when people claim that they found the movie boring and don't have any interest in thinking too deeply about it, but then follow up their lack of interest with the claim that there's nothing in the movie to think very deeply about anyway.

Personal preferences are subjective, everyone's allowed to like what they like and dislike what they don't, and not everyone needs the same messages from the stories that speak most meaningfully to their lives. But disliking a thing is not the same as that thing having no substance for others to enjoy.

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