Lamia Raafat

"Parasite" is currently being screened in some countries of the world, and the film has been able to become the subject of talk again, after receiving the Palme d'Or award from the Cannes Film Festival a few months ago.

One of the most important advantages of the film is its highly intelligent approach to class inequality, the growth of capitalism until it crushed the marginalized and poor classes, but it is not the first film of the twenty-first century to rediscover this economic and social dilemma together.

Florida Project
The 2017 Florida Project, directed by Sean Packer, starring William Daffo and Brooklyn Prince, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, and then commercialized in October of the same year. Ten films that year, his hero Davo was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA for his role.

The movie is set a few feet away from Disney, but its heroes live in the negative image of this fictional city.You'll get to know the little girl Moni and her unemployed mother Haley who lives in a poor pink motel.

Every day, the girl and her mother try to earn a living in a different way, honest or dishonest, at the same time as they watch Florida visitors come to scatter their money left and right.

The pursuit of happiness
A 2006 American film, based on the true story of entrepreneur Chris Gardner, who lived on the streets for a year, was directed by Gabriel Muchino, starring Will Smith and his son Giden Smith, and Smith was nominated for the Oscar and the Golden Globe for his role.

Chris, the hero of the film, is crushed by capitalist society. He cannot sell the medical equipment that he bought with all his money, and his wife, who cannot afford to be poor, leaves him even more distressing, leaving the young son to become homeless in the city after losing shelter. He succeeds in an unpaid job so that he can be appointed with a fixed wage, and for a year he and his son have been displaced in the harsh streets of the city, who do not even find help or consideration from their colleagues in poverty, the latter stripped everyone of humanity.

Rome
The director Alfonso Cuaron's 2018 film won the Golden Lion award from the Venice Film Festival, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Photographer - both of whom have won the film for themselves - and his two Oscar nominees for Best Actress in a Leading and Supporting Role.

The film is set in the aristocratic Rome neighborhood of Mexico City, where we find the maid Clio, who works in the house of a family who lose her family after he leaves the house in search of a new love.

Cleo and the housewife are in a big crisis, the first abandoned by her lover after carrying an illegitimate child, and the second is carrying the burden of the family with her three children and her mother, all against the backdrop of the city, which is ignited by the political and economic crises.

Sorry to bother you
A 2018 American film directed and written by Potts Reilly, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was critically acclaimed for its different style and crew.

The film is a mixture of comedy, science fiction and realism. It revolves around a poor African-American who lives in the garage of his uncle's house, but almost loses this modest home after the uncle is forced to sell the house to pay his debts. The field of telemarketing, and discovers that in order to sell products he must give up his voice, which reveals his origins, and speak like eggs.

Indeed, it is tried and excelled, and promotes in the company, but when he gets to the top roles discovers that the institution depends on the efforts of poor employees - as in the past - to live a life of luxury.

Coyote Wall Street
A black American comedy, produced in 2013 and directed by Martin Scorsese, is based on a true story written by Jordan Belfort in a book of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie.

The film premiered at the New York Film Festival, winning commercial success to become the highest-grossing film director in its history, and was nominated for five Oscars.

The film begins with Jordan's poor broker, who has only great persuasion, but soon discovers that it can lift him out of poverty forever.

Indeed, he persuades a group of his colleagues to open a speculative company on the stock market with the shares of very small companies, and through fraud, it destroys poverty.

The film examines the terrible difference between the poverty that Jordan lived in, his family and colleagues at first, and then the extraordinary riches that the stock market speculators could achieve with talents such as persuasion and rhetoric.