The Revenge of Joker and Parasites
Marcin Giżycki
mgizycki@hotmail.comPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
Abstract
Joker (dir. Todd Phillips, 2019) and Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2019), winners of the main awards in Cannes and Venice in 2019, speak in different languages about the growing rebellion of the excluded. This is not a silent rebellion of the masses described by Ortega y Gasset, consisting of passive resistance to possible changes that destroy the status quo of the middle class, but an active, often uncontrolled protest consisting in taking over public space and demanding participation in the distribution of goods reserved for the rich. But Parasite subtly warns of one more factor that may accelerate this process of growing crowd dissatisfaction in the near future: global warming. A heavy downpour twice affects the flow of events in the film. The artists are warning us!
Keywords:
middle class, global warming, distribution of goods, rebellion of the excludedReferences
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Marcin Giżyckimgizycki@hotmail.com
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
Film and art historian, critic, filmmaker. Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (Poland). Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA). Artistic Director of “Animator” – International Animated Film Festival in Poznan (Poland). Former editor-in-chief of Animafilm – the ASIFA quarterly. He has published eight books and around 400 articles on film and art in Polish and foreign publications. He has also made a number of documentary, live action, experimental, and animated films in Poland and the USA. In 2016 he received the Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies at Animafest, the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb (Croatia).
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