As far as I could tell in the movie the rich people were depicted as decent parents if not a bit naive, while the poor family were backstabbing assholes who betrayed their fellow workers (the housekeeper and her husband) because of sheer malice. Not once does the film hint at the underlying economical system as the reason why the rich are rich and the poor are poor.

If you are a socialist, you will (correctly) identify capitalism as the reason for the misery of the poor people in the film, and the rich as part of the bourgeoisie who exploit them. But that isn’t any different than analysing an IRL crime through that lens, the film didn’t help you reach that conclusion, it just presented a scenario.

A chud could easily see the rich family as the honest entrepreneurs and the poor family as poor because of the negative behaviors they exhibited, and there is nothing in the film that would dispute that interpretation.

With the poor family getting punished for their deception, and the son resolving to make money to save his father at the end (presumably through more “honest” means), it even displays the “pull yourself by the bootstraps” belief.

The best case interpretation of the film I can make is that “the rich people should be more conscious of the poor’s struggles, and the poors should stay in their place or risk losing everything” which is pretty reactionary and not the class conscious film many people described it as. I guess you could see the ending as punishment for the class betrayal but I think that’s a stretch.

Am I overzealous in policing the politics of the media I consume to the point of misinterpreting things or finding an even vaguely leftist film that hard?

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    I don’t think so. In addition to what everyone else said, the suspect who was extremely sus did not have any concrete evidence tying him to the murders and allowed to go after nearly being murdered. The DNA test was inconclusive. If Bong Jong-Ho was a Punisher guy, he would’ve just murdered the last suspect and the following scenes will be the cops raiding his home and finding evidence.

    His real liberalism is praising the cops for catching the killer even though the circumstances seem a bit odd.

    Lee initially denied any involvement in the serial murders,[34] but, on October 2, 2019, police announced he had confessed to killing 14 people, including all 10 serial murders. Two of the additional four murders happened in Suwon, and the other two happened in Cheongju; as of October 2019, details about the victims have not been released because the investigation is ongoing.[35] In addition to the murders, Lee also confessed to more than 30 rapes and attempted rapes.

    So he denies these crimes and suddenly confessed to every single one? Seems a bit convenient. Something tells me they wanted to just end the case and had the perfect patsy. Or perhaps they just summarized it too stupidly on Wikipedia