{"id":3553,"date":"2021-11-01T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:01:00","slug":"its-not-the-plot-that-matters-its-the-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the plot that matters; it&#8217;s the perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Parasite (2019), if seen from the perspective of the Park family, is about an innocent family\u2019s misfortune.<br><br>Here we can see why liberalism, steadfast in the category of rights, could\/would never perceive revolutionary reason.<\/p>&mdash; 7minscifi \u4e03\u5206\u79d1\u5e7b (@7minscifi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7minscifi\/status\/1455307467085148163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This goes back to \u201cperspective\u201d in fiction (and history), and why it is structurally impossible to tell an anti-war film from the perspective of a soldier who is blowing things up in battle; why it\u2019s not really a subversion or critique to have an antihero who does horrible things be a protagonist; why you cannot critique the wealthy by showing them being powerful, opulent, and cruel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not the plot that matters in \u201cParasite\u201d; it\u2019s the perspective. It\u2019s who you identify with and root for to see <em>more of what you like happen<\/em>, and the rewards you feel when you see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you watch the Marvel movie \u201cIron Man\u201d from the perspective of people living in fear not just of aerial military drones and bombs that blow up mountains but now armored billionaires that drop out of the sky to kill people and fly away unaccountably, it\u2019s a horror film. But when the power fantasy is that you\u2019re the one in the suit, it\u2019s a superhero film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is also why it\u2019s notable how few films and works of media in general revolve around cooperation and mass organizing. Unions exist to be controlled by mobs, you see, not ever achieve anything for worker rights. Politics is shown to be a handful of public figures or shadowy puppet masters making all decisions rather than results of collective action and decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s easy to say, \u201cWell, individual heroism is more dramatic and makes for a better story.\u201d But <em>does <\/em>it? Or does it help us accept and reproduce existing power structures so they\u2019ll continue to benefit a few people at the expense of all the rest of us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e1b3202a32751008b30e3a9c987d8095 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter <strong>7minscifi \u4e03\u5206\u79d1\u5e7b @7minscifi<\/strong><br>Parasite (2019), if seen from the perspective of the Park family, is about an innocent family\u2019s misfortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here we can see why liberalism, steadfast in the category of rights, could\/would never perceive revolutionary reason.<\/p>\n<cite>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7minscifi\/status\/1455307467085148163?\">Tweet<\/a>]<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goes back to \u201cperspective\u201d in fiction (and history), and why it is structurally impossible to tell an anti-war film from the perspective of a soldier who is blowing things up in battle; why it\u2019s not really a subversion or critique to have an antihero who does horrible things be a protagonist; why you cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[914,921,11,981,988,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel-movies","category-media-criticism","category-memes","category-parasite","category-perspective","category-superheroes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}