Original movie, Great directing, Smart writing

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2020)

What I love about this movie... it's a blast to watch, very original, and the directing is some of the best. The originality is a huge plus to me, because it feels like there's not much of it to go around right now.
But as far as the negative (I'll spend a little longer on this because theirs so much praise already).. I feel like all the best drama in the movie feels manufactured. I felt like the director had the poor father stab the rich one for a dramatic conclusion, whether it was justified or not, a mechanism to show the movie had some dramatic point. Almost hamfisted in, but never organically produced.
The rich family behaved like bosses in a typical work environment. Seemed dismissive at times, even gullible, but in many ways, incredibly generous and trusting, if not creating opportunity and doing more good than required. The director may say, there's no good guys and bad guys, but, shouldn't we at least feel like theirs a motive behind the final killing? I should have been thinking, I hope he doesn't kill him, I hope he doesn't kill him.. but instead I was just thinking, why is this disgruntled cab driver grabbing a knife to kill the rich father of all people? There's a murderer who just killed his son, who is being carried through the courtyard by the rich daughter of all people, trying to get him some help. The rich father commented that he liked the cheap panties, but that didn't relate to the message at all, he didn't even know they were the driver's daughter's. Seemed like a cheap inclusion to build motive for the dramatic killing. Did he look down on the family? Not really, he was a boss and was even caring, and didn't even know they were a family. The poor father stabbing him in front of everyone put his own family at risk and hurt their ability to function even further, and although you knew he was upset, it didn't feel like that level of aggression worked with his character at this point in the film.
Overall, the message didn't come across succinctly. I think the director would probably say, the rich should be more aware of the pains in the community. So no-one can ever have something nice, ever again, until everyone is rich. The only way this rich family could have over come their flaws, is if they had ensured that everyone in the world had a good day the day before.
If I want to get really critical, I would say that the director wanted to make a funny, political, and scary movie, and therefore threw in random scenes to sensationalize his script. Like when the old maid comes to the door... of course they wouldn't let her in if the movie was being honest. And that's what enabled all the incredible drama, was this poor decision made with unclear motivation. They're all hanging out inside, eating food, broken bottles on the floor, openly making a mess of the the house for the first time, this could blow their whole operation they meticulous planned, and were cunning and quick on their feet in every other scene, but they decide to let her inside always, oh well. Could have just told her to come back? So, then they find a poor family living downstairs, which is random and sort of unrelated to the story and the point of it... but they find a poor guy there and so the protagonist mother decides to turn them in. What needs to happen to create the next sensational moment? Well, if the family living downstairs were to just happen to discover the entire secret of the poor family before the mother calls the cops in 5 seconds, then we could have a fight to the death. What happens next? Well, the entire family comes tumbling down the stairs and the downstairs family gets video proof of them referring to each other by their family names, etc. If any of those random, highly unlikely, and unrelated elements don't happen in this short sequence, the entire movie ends with the family making a little money as an uber driver, a maid, and 2 tutors. But, the movie needed to go bigger. So, we have these unintuitive moments driven by unclear motives tacked on to ensure we get the killing and dark moments and dramatic political messages that can only be found in the second half. Now we've got the pieces, at the expense of depth. Almost seems like a fun, silly movie with random political narratives to increase the clout. Like it's a movie that's supposed to make you feel good, because you just got to watch a comedy, a thriller, and then became a better person because of the mechanically meaningful scenes. I mean, if this is how you make a great movie, you could literally use this as a template, because again, it could be a manufacturing process. But since the feeling of moral fulfillment comes by way of cheap design, and gives a bit of hollowness to the final experience.
So, I rate this 8! 8 because of the direction and originality. 2 stars gone because of the artificial nature of the climax. I don't like crapping on a movie this good, but it's off my chest now and there's plenty of positive reviews, so I'll leave some of that to them. :)