The Korean film "Parasite" caused a stir by winning four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best picture, Best director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Film. After all, the subject of the film is slightly sensitive - discussing class differences, so it has caused various controversies from the moment it was released.

When director Bong Joon-ho was asked "Why do Americans love Parasite so much?" "It's about the rich and the poor, and at its core it's about capitalism, and America is the center of capitalism," he said.

Around this difference between the capitalist classes, the film's comparison of the rich and the poor in terms of house decoration, dress, lifestyle and so on is particularly glaring.

If you look closely, you will find that the hostess's clothes are almost all white beige champagne color based light color, or low-key earth color, material, but also noble but fragile fabrics such as silk. Most of the men's clothes were fitted and tailored suits.

These clothes, which are easily stained and damaged by carelessness, are extremely difficult to care for, meaning that they are extremely expensive to wear. But because of this, it can reflect the economic power behind the rich class in the movie.

The poor people in the film would never wear such clothes, worn, loose t-shirts are the norm, and even use other people's Wi-Fi on the toilet.

Of course, with the development of the plot, when the poor family wants to integrate into the rich circle in the later period, the clothing is also close to the above principles.

Rich people's mansions are transparent floor-to-ceiling Windows, hierarchical open kitchens.

Poor people live in bunches in stinky semi-basements with garbage piled up everywhere.

Although this is a slightly exaggerated expression by Bong Joon-ho, the film's director, I also think of another thing: every time I talk about the topic of taste, there is always a comment from readers: "Those elegant and exquisite lives you write about, many of them are piled up with money, and ordinary people like us can just look at them."

In many people's minds, taste is linked to money, we seem to have enough money first, in order to live a tasteful life. Is this really the case?

Just so, a German writer wrote a book called "Poor with Taste", and put forward the "new poor fashion" concept of life. He begins by asking a thought-provoking question: Does a tasteful life really require that much money?

What is the New Poverty Fashion?

Start with the author. The author of this book is of course not an ordinary German, his name is Alexander von Schoenberg, the legitimate heir of a German count, and his wife is the great-niece of Queen Elizabeth.

Of course, today's aristocracy and the aristocracy of hundreds of thousands of years ago have long been different, the author laughs at himself as a down-and-out aristocrat, living in an ordinary house, living on writing, and indeed not a few big money in his pocket.

But he has his own idea of taste. For example, he said: "Even when the family in the small suite still do not forget to brew a cup of the most authentic afternoon tea, reduced to Paris street sweeping still feel that it is an aristocratic sport, still need to maintain dignity and taste in scarcity."

In the book, he also lists several behaviors that he thinks may be rich, but have no taste at all. For example, "clothes wear people, not people wear clothes."

Too much care about clothes, in his view is only the slavery of clothes. And pretend not to care, dress up, any kind of deliberate is difficult to send out elegant temperament.

True grace must be without the slightest compulsion. In fact, relying on their own aesthetic cultivation, it is not impossible to go to the second-hand market to find a few high-quality clothes, careful care is enough, and it will not spend a lot of money.

The same goes for travel. There were a few people who bragged about what they had seen at various resorts. It's like showing people that you've visited is more important than the visit itself. Rather, it is better to prepare a few dishes at home, open a bottle of wine, and entertain the rich friends.

"People in Pisa don't want to climb the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Parisians don't want to climb the Eiffel Tower." Any deliberate display, in fact, is more or less because of inner lack, can only be supplemented by some external proof.

Those really tasteful behavior, in fact, exist in elegant speech and behavior.

Taste creates money, not money creates taste.

In fact, there are many, many examples that prove that wealth is not related to taste.