Potatoes sculpted in lard

On the new cinema of excess and revenge

FOR THE VERSO BLOG, I’ve written about the new cinema of debauch and excess - Succession, The Menu, The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, Infinity Pool - and how our fantasies of the ultrarich can never be as sordid as their real lives.

As one character says in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, money is like an iron: it smooths all wrinkles. Because they are so …