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2019 was a big year for films about classism. The most popular of all was Parasite, which not only addressed the vast economic gap between the upper and lower classes but also highlighted how this leads to a lack of class solidarity among the lower classes. Knives Out was a sharp commentary on how the rich can't even imagine sharing their property and wealth with the son of an immigrant, even though, morally and ethically speaking, the latter had more right to his inheritance than the former.  Article 15 proved that it's pointless to talk about the class divide without mentioning caste, and the list goes on. While, in real life, the COVID-19 pandemic underscored that the aforementioned class gap is deeper than we had imagined, entertainment took a strange turn by celebrating "classy behavior" under the guise of "criticizing" it. And now, with films like Delicious and, today's topic, An Honest Life, it seems that storytellers are hell-bent on turning the ...