{"id":37,"date":"2024-03-19T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/?p=37"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:22:03","slug":"its-just-like-call-me-by-your-name-but-with-bank-robbery-and-a-lot-more-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/2024\/03\/19\/its-just-like-call-me-by-your-name-but-with-bank-robbery-and-a-lot-more-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s just like Call Me By Your Name! … but with bank robbery and a LOT more drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luca Guadagnino, I have your next movie idea king!<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually really liked this novel. It was fast-paced, interesting and genuinely made me go WTF several times. I fully forgot that what I was reading was based on a true story, because everything about it felt like a movie. But even with the genre of \u2018crime fiction\u2019 this novel did not necessarily feel entirely fictional. The relationships and characters felt real (honestly super understand the lawsuits). The only fictional thing in this novel and real life is how much emphasis we put on the value of money. And how easy it is for governments to become filled with greed and corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing I want to talk about is the idea of art imitating life (and vice versa). In the video lecture, there was a particular quote that stood out to me \u201cWhat does robbing a bank compare to founding one\u201d. Cause if we want to talk about corrupt governments and shitty banks, let\u2019s call up my homeland -Lebanon!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Lebanon has a long history of government corruption that would take way too long to explain. But one of the main concerns is the pure lack of access to banks that the citizens have. You literally cannot access your own savings because the government has frozen all access to banks and sunk the worth of money. It\u2019s gone so far that people are fully \u2018robbing\u2019 banks and staging sit-ins to gain access to their own savings. Money in Lebanon has basically lost its (fictional) value. Right now one Lebanese dollar is worth 0.000015 of a Canadian Dollar. Again, as stated in the video lecture: money is the most powerful structure, we place so much emphasis on pieces of paper and coins (that could lose value any minute). The only really good thing that\u2019s come out of this crisis is the sense of community that has happened in Lebanon, something that is slightly touched on in this novel. <\/span><\/p>\n

Piglia is writing about sizing control from a corrupted state is what is happening currently all over the world. Piglia just turns that real-life experience into art via crime fiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another thing I\u2019m super curious about is the idea of crime fiction and the true-crime podcast. For me, a lot of the time when I hear true crime podcasts they feel exploitative of victims and that they\u2019re just interested in the \u2018glamour\u2019 of criminality. This brings me to my discussion question: do you think it\u2019s ethical\/moral that Piglia invents backstories\/characteristics of the characters?\u00a0 Is Piglia also feeding into the glamour of criminality?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luca Guadagnino, I have your next movie idea king! I actually really liked this novel. It was fast-paced, interesting and genuinely made me go WTF several times. I fully forgot that what I was reading was based on a true story, because everything about it felt like a movie. But even with the genre of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,29,31,28],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-money","tag-piglia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mayab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}