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Article • Mercator (Fortaleza) 23 • 2024 • https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2024.e23013 linkcopy

Open-access HOUSE OF DREAMS, OR NOT

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we will discuss the role of the built environment as storytelling in the context of Oscar winner Parasite, a film by director Bong Joon-Ho (2019). We will look at the potentiality of the built environment in unveiling film narratives, especially regarding immanent forms of class struggle and exploitation in everyday life. We will investigate the troubling power relations between the rich and the poor in contemporary society and the ways that the concepts of alienation/estrangement, objectification/reification and commodity fetishism can be used to bring these relations to the fore when analyzing the movie.

    Keywords: Parasite; built environment; inequality; class struggle; alienation; everyday life

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