David Siegel and his wife, billionaire owners of the world's largest timeshare company and builders of a Versailles-like palace in Florida, define the American dream as: live rich, or feel rich, or die. Then the 2008 financial breakdown comes along, and they're struggling to make their ahem*disgusting*ahem consumerism ends meet. Strangely, I neither envied their lifestyle when they were in paradise, nor felt sympathy when they were in crisis mode. The reason is well-conceived at the end: they pray that one day, things will get better, so they can go back to their material-worshiping habits again. They just never learn.
Mo says:
Exactly! Agree totally with your words here($ magazine):"Strangely, I neither envied their lifestyle when they were in paradise, nor felt sympathy when they were in crisis mode".likewise, I never wished to be instead of them not because of such terrible crisis ,just because their dream is not my dream. The distance of wishes or dreams or thoughts of some people might reach to lightyear. We are living in separate galaxies.
ReplyDeleteHardcore capitalists may call this a Communist movie; but seriously, people like Siegel are the scum of capitalism.
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