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Parasite (w/ Jessica Burbank)

Movies vs. Capitalism

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Parasite: A Movie About Solidarity

I love thinking, I mean obviously the title is parasite. But what I was surprised on my rewatch to find is that I didn't remember it being such a hopeful movie. So they're living in this interdependent system as well, like because capitalism is forcing them to and not in a good way. And so we have that which again, I think is so important because most filmmakers will not give you that context. Without that kind of context, it's so easy to go to our default, which is, well, that's a bad lazy human being.

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