Death of the subject

While watching Marionettes, a short film by Tamás Waliczky, the introduction to Adornos Minima Moralia came to mind:

To speak immediately of what is immediate, is to behave no differently from that novelist, who adorns their marionettes with the imitations of the passions of yesteryear like cheap jewlery, and who sets persons in motion, who are nothing other than inventory-pieces of machinery, as if they could still act as subjects, and as if something really depended on their actions. The gaze at life has passed over into ideology, which conceals the fact, that it no longer exists.
Source: Marxists internet archive

We can interpret the short film as an aesthetization of this phenomenon, or better said an ironic commentary: we see Marionettes being subject to simple simulation of gravity. Even when they act collectively (i.e. they are collectively subjected to the same external force), this can never be social action, since they are isolated, each individually experiencing an objective force, the apparent consensus being only due to the immense uniformity of outside pressure. This is a view of society like the one that Adorno formulated in his darkest works (Minima Moralia surely counting among them): farces of subjects behaving collectively - but never as a collective, since the only binding material that holds them togehther is the oppresive uniformity of social totality.