This week, we had our listeners decide what piece of art we should cover and y’all chose Bong Joon-ho’s Academy-Award winning, genre-bending, MASTERPIECE Parasite. We kick this episode off with a wild tangent on organic farming, restoring golf courses and ultimately decide we will be starting a theatre farm ON a golf course! This gives us the perfect segue into the film because there is so much to unpack about class consciousness and collectivist versus individualist mindsets in Eastern films. We dismantle ideals of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and 3-Act Structure, capitalism as a universal struggle, and somehow are able to loop the discussion back to the concept of organic farming and ethically sourced clothes and food! Wow! There is a whole world of amazing movies out there waiting for you if you just READ SUBTITLES! Hear all about it this week on ‘Bitch, Why?’.

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Resources:

Academy Established Representation & Inclusion Standards

How Parasite (And Every Bong Joon-ho Film) Critiques Class

In a Post-‘Parasite’ World, What Happens Next?

Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide

The Ending Of 'Parasite' Explained | Pop Culture Decoded

Why Parasite is a Masterpiece