The hypocrisy of the "class" movies

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Some thoughts upon watching the Rules of the Game. I also watched the documentary, which only drove the clear point home harder - the film's critique of the privelaged class.
An expert upon expert continued to state that the film exposed the horrendous problem in the upper class society - mostly concerning, or revolving around, the rampant infidelity.
Fair enough... I am sure there's plenty of that.
However, I think it is hypocritical to suggest that there is less of that going on in other classes, and that the privileged somehow got the license on bad behavior.
I spent enough time living among the working class to know full well ITS deadly deseases. Alcoholism. Spousal abuse. Rampant infidelity. Insest. Crime. Drug use. And on and on and on. These are ugly, revolting, decapitating things that go on every day.
To be fair, we often see the movies about this wretched life, that present it as it is.
However... however... those are never presented as some revelations about the vices of the working class.
So we have that purely lopsided conclusion here. Every bad thing that goes on in the privileged class is the sign of its decadence and decay.
But none of the VERY SAME things that go on every day in the proletarian class are ever presented as something endemic, something that is perhaps the result of that class' mentality and even philosophy.
Infidelity is perhaps even more common among the lower classes than the top ones. Then why all that obsession with "exposing the deadly sores of the rulling class, of the bourgeoisie"?
The responsibility for that injustice falls not just on the movie directors - as they usually are not as vocal about their work. Mostly people who are responsible for that attempt at crookedly shaping our minds are the movie critics and historian.

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Topic - The hypocrisy of the "class" movies - Victor Khomenko 16:02:28 02/08/04 (9)

Criterion? I've read so much about this... How'd it look? nt - clarkjohnsen 08:42:31 02/09/04 (2)

Image was somewhat mediocre - Victor Khomenko 10:01:35 02/09/04 (1)

Re: Image was somewhat mediocre - patrickU 12:10:32 02/09/04 (0)

And...this just in! - tinear 17:06:33 02/08/04 (5)

Here speaketh another class critic - Victor Khomenko 19:01:10 02/08/04 (4)

Yes, and himself an enthusiastic elitist... nt - clarkjohnsen 08:39:19 02/09/04 (0)

I believe that is human nature more than class nature.... nt - Ruben 22:08:31 02/08/04 (2)

That was exactly my point. - Victor Khomenko 06:19:06 02/09/04 (0)

Re: You may not be wrong. nt - patrickU 05:56:02 02/09/04 (0)

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