ep389: Parasite (2019)

We love trashy movies here at Video Monsters. You might even say we’re connoisseurs of it. But we do occasionally like to *ahem* cross the line into more prestigious territory. And, well, it doesn’t get any more prestigious than Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE. In 2019, it won the Palme d’Or and went on to become the first non-English language Best Picture winner in the history of the Academy Awards (and, shockingly, the only South Korean film to EVER win an Oscar… or four). It is currently the highest-rated feature film on Letterboxd. It was just recently included in Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll. At this point, is there really anything left to say about a movie that is so universally beloved and was instantly embraced as a canonical classic? Maybe! Nathan, Dan, and Eric will attempt to leave no scholar stone unturned in our analysis. So crack a window, whip up some ram-don, and make a plan to hit play because we’re paying you extra to listen to our review of PARASITE.

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