I can't quite recall if the first film was this blunt, or if it's just that capitalism has grown so massive by 2026 that its operations feel far more glaring now. Either way, as a neat sequel, the film delivers surprisingly direct messages about how the elite world of high fashion and luxury functions—revolving around rigid hierarchies, commodity fetishism, and money-based relationships. For a mainstream Hollywood franchise, these insights are impressively spot-on. Ironically, it mirrors the very system it critiques,…