#and the way capitalism easily hide the misery by more flashy things
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god Corel really does hit every single time.
Like yeah you've seen Shinra destroy area by now, you saw poor slums city before, with beautiful cities planted on top.
but you go to Corel and everything is in ruin, everyone living there still haven't recovered from a tragedy that happened years ago.
You're coming from a luxurious touristic City. You have to pass by Corel to go to the theme park that presides on top of those ruins.
And under the theme park there's a prison, out of the ruins of the town as it used to be, where people are thrown and forgotten there, unless they bring some entertainment to the people upstairs.
Like we're seen the power dynamic in Midgar and in Junon, where people on top have a luxury life while people at the bottom are suffering in poverty, but this is such a grim set up.
And honestly i feel like this explains even more Barret's hatred for Midgar and its plate. It's what happened to his village, except that the people of the slums have grown used to it. Shinra keeps repeating the same projects, the same thing, ignoring a poverty that happened because of them, by just covering it with something shiny on top.
Man this is so unsettling.
#like i think one thing that kinda gets me is how like#i've been to Paris a few times more since the last time i played the game#i've started to go more or less annually to see some friends yaknow#and sometimes some of the cheapest train tickets drop you specifically at the station next to Disneyland#so you come out of the train at your train station#you look one of the exit doors and you can see the tips of the attraction and castle in the distance#and you then move through the exit doors at the opposite side and you can see homeless people sleeping on cardboard#like i WISH i would look at this 1997 game and say the way to show the divide between poverty and entertainment#and the way capitalism easily hide the misery by more flashy things#is a disproportionate and dystopic view on reality. But then i just go#'Well that's just like Marne-la-Vallée.'#and then i get sad.#ichablogging ffviiog
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