Materialists centers on a woman who chooses a less wealthy suitor, prompting strong audience reactions in 2025 amid economic instability. Critics accuse the film of promoting broke-man propaganda by romanticizing male financial insecurity as noble sacrifice for love. A viral TikTok post argues the story functions as a horror about trauma and low self-esteem that pushes women back to exes who cannot meet their needs, asserting that women deserve both financial stability and love. Director Celine Song objects that poverty is not the fault of the poor and warns against classist readings of characters. Dating-app data indicate a substantial portion of users prioritize aspirational financial matches over love.
Critics accuse the film of being a clear case of broke man propaganda, romanticizing men's financial insecurity in the name of love. A TikTok post with more than 170,000 likes argues that the rom com directed by Celine Song is nothing but a true-to-life horror film about how trauma and low self-esteem limit women's choices and send them spiraling back to exes they know can't give them what they want. Women deserve financial stability AND love.
It really is disappointing to me. Poverty is not the fault of the poor, she said. That is a very troubling result of the way that the wealthy people have gotten into our hearts about how it's your fault if you're poor, or you're a bad person if you're poor. It just makes me feel very concerned that anybody would talk about my movie and my characters, and to really think about it in such classist terms.
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