I love the interesting topic of the apartment plot, and I find the article very compelling. I would agree with the author that the apartment can be a central device to a story and not merely a setting, and the theory applies in different places, countries, contexts and societies. The reading reminds me of the recent Oscar winner Parasite, where the apartment is also key to the story and the shaping of characters. In the film, the poor family lives in a semi-basement apartment. The family’s decision to leave their window open when fumigation comes near their apartment, their reaction to someone urinating outside the apartment and encounter with a flood almost completely submerging the apartment all help to further the plot and build characters. The state of their apartment also speaks to social inequalities, because “the apartment is never broadly representative of the city, but instead marks class and shows residential differentiation”, as the author argued.
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Fantastic and well-articulated reading response to Wojcik’s reading – in particular well done for thinking more broadly about her argument about the apartment complex and applying it to the film Parasite! Keep up this trajectory of thought as you continue to watch more films!