Africa: High Tech, Low Labour?

15 October 2020

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — In the glitzy Dolby Theater in Hollywood Heights, with stars dressed in hundred thousand-dollar garbs, Parasite - a film about inequality, class tension and the fault lines of capitalism - won big. I couldn't help but recall South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's earlier 2013 film, Snowpiercer.

Starring a rugged Chris Evans, the positively demonic Tilda Swinton and Bong's erstwhile collaborator Song Kang-Ho, the film tells the story of a post-apocalyptic future where the world is frozen in a forever winter, where the last remnants of humanity survive in a perpetually moving train called the Snowpiercer.

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