An overall sad, perhaps even cautionary, tale of the role that money and wealth plays in society and our perceptions of the world. In the same vein as “The Wolf of Wallstreet”, it seeks to criticize the role of desire and the lavish decadence of the 1%, but plays into the tropes of fetishizing it. Something that doesn’t corrupt my enjoyment of it, but definitely corrupts the message.
For better or worse, I find myself identifying with the film’s main character, being unable to find connection and purpose in a world that seems to be playing with a deck stacked against the little guys.
It culminates in an end so perversely bittersweet and strange, that I still struggle to understand my feelings about it.
I do know one thing: I found myself rewatching the ending over and over again.
All to the realization, that despite my best efforts and against all of my liberal, free-thinking instincts, capitalism wins against the noble forces of good, humanity and over and over again, in my life and also probably in yours too.
8.9/10