La Chimera was ‘about nothing’?! (SPOILERS!)

No! No!!!!!

La Chimera was about property rights and extraction.

I thought we all got it?

It was pretty clear??? to me???

You know…. the juxtaposition of the abandoned Station and the unopened Graves? That potential through hard work can be negative and positive too?

The police not being able to do their job properly?

The competition dressing up as police who look like they’re doing their job properly?

The shadowy German art collector (Gentrifier) taking public resources and utilising criminals, privatising the profits for herself?

The constant ‘Does it belong to everyone or no-one’ discourse?

THE GREED?

The returning motif of the grave robbers feeling like they’re pirates and outlaws which gives their life meaning, but at the end of the day they’re just petty theives and they turn up on ma’am’s boat running the same petty grift, and then the lead throws the priceless decapitated head into the ocean, thinking he did something, but really he got rid of their one chance to make a check, aligning himself once again with the moneyed class and leaving his ‘friends’ to rot the same way they did to him in jail, and leaving the statue head to erode in the ocean, making the German Collector millions in the process.

Only for his greed to lead him to his own ‘demise’. And his ‘gift’ clearly being a form of self-delusion, fortified by his own greed. (maybe this last point is up for debate).

That’s not ‘nothing’!

If it helps, Arthur - she never belonged to you either.

(If I had a dime for every time Josh O’Connor played a rich kid pretending to be poor in 2024 i’d have two dimes!)