class consciousness

Class consciousness is evident throughout the movie, both in the goonies’ ability to make the most out of the meager resources at their disposal and in their imaginative leap of faith that One-Eyed Willy’s buried treasure really is out there somewhere.

We know nothing about the other gladiators, or how they got to the point where a boring speech was enough to suddenly awaken their class consciousness, but at least we know how Hanno got here.

Class consciousness has largely remained dormant in America, in large part because most people consider themselves to belong to the same amorphous socioeconomic class.

As Noodle likes to say, “the greedy beat the needy,” and thus, “Wonka” becomes a film about class consciousness and the redistribution of wealth.

In commemoration of that clash, May Day was established as a larger international holiday that helped “build worker class consciousness” around much of the world, he said.