It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film

in the way it shaped our thoughts in a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with

Genevieve Kosky. And Keith Cups. Tasha Robinson is off somewhere hating on Wally Brando,

which will be back soon. On the first half of this episode, we looked at Babe, Chris Noonan and

George Miller's sweet storybook fantasy about a runty pig who makes himself useful as a sheepdog.

Now we turn to the new Netflix original film, Okja, from Bong Joon Ho, the gifted Korean

director of the host and Snowpiercer. In stark contrast to Babe, Okja is gigantic, a hippo-sized super pig that's been

genetically designed by a giant corporation to serve as a delicious source of jerky and other

pork products. Oakja is the most spectacular of the 26 super pigs raised in various locations

around the world, and the head of the company, played by Tilda Swinton, wants to take it from the Korean mountains where it was raised to New York City. But Misia, the 14-year-old

girl who's been Okja's closest companion all these years, has other ideas. She goes on an adventure

to bring Okja back home, which brings her up against Swinton and her minions, as well as a radical

environmental group,

led by Paul Dano, that wants to make an audacious point about animal abuse.

Okja resembles the host in many respects.

Both are films about supernatural creatures born of American disregard for nature.

But the film is its own strange animal, combining fantasy, corporate satire,

and a surprising number of F-bombs.

We'll talk about Okja and how it relates to Babe after the break.

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