Analysis: “Glass Onion,” “The White Lotus” and others provide cathartic commentary on the moral and material distance between the 1 percent and the rest of us
by New York magazine that describes a substantial change in cultural trends or attitudes. “It was the year the billionaires showed who they really are,” reads a subhead on the Vox story, which at one point links to an Atlantic article from September thatAnd with that echo of shattering glass, we return to Miles and his fragile ego. He invites to his island an unlikely group of friends, including the governor of Connecticut and a dimwitted socialite who made big bucks selling sweatpants.
,” which aired its finale earlier this month. Created by Mike White, the anthology series takes place at different White Lotus vacation resorts around the world. Among Season 2’s Sicilian vacationers are businessman Cameron Sullivan , who comes from money and now works in the rapacious investment world, and his college roommate Ethan Spiller , who recently sold his company for quite a large sum.
White’s class critique extends beyond discipline; it isn’t clear what sort of work Ethan does, just that it amassed him enough wealth to persuade Cameron and his wife, Daphne , that they have enough in common with Ethan and his wife, Harper , to insist they join them in Italy. Harper operates early on as a stand-in for the audience, a labor attorney who elicits blank stares from Cameron and Daphne when she suggests they’re all living through “the end of the world.
But to a greater extent than in the first season, which explores structural inequities among the wealthy beach vacationers and Native Hawaiian members of the resort staff, “The White Lotus” is far more concerned with the psychology involved.
“You have all of the tools to figure out your life, and you can’t figure out your life,” White said, adding that “if you’re in paradise and you feel like something’s missing or you’re melancholy or you’re tortured, you know it’s not the ambient nature of what’s going on — it’s something in you.”
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