Severance and Marx: When Escape Becomes a Prison
Severance turns Karl Marx's theory of alienation literal: a procedure that splits you into two people, each trapped in a prison that looks like an escape.
Karl Marx
Alienation on Screen: What Marx Saw in Parasite and Metropolis
Karl Marx's theory of alienation, traced through four films — Metropolis, Modern Times, Parasite, and Severance — and what it says about…