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This Wreckage

Ep 81 - Parasite w/ Leslie Lee III

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) of Struggle Session (@strugglesesh) joins Jamie to discuss South Korean filmmaker (and comrade) Bong Joon-ho's beautifully subversive upstairs-downstairs-downstairs parable "Parasite." Warning: contains spoilers!!!

Outro music: Queers - Like a Parasite

Check out Struggle Session at patreon.com/strugglesession

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Antifada where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck and I'm here with our awesome friend and I'm here with our awesome friend and collaborator Leslie Lee the third.

0:16.4

I don't know why I just spoke in the third person but regardless here he is.

0:20.8

Hello Leslie.

0:21.6

Hey how's it going thank you so much for having me back.

0:25.0

Always, always a pleasure.

0:27.0

Like, you said a while back that we shouldn't step on your territory by doing movie episodes without you and I really took that to heart and it's really just a win-win for me because I don't want to do movie episodes without you.

0:40.0

Oh, that's so nice to you to say, and I appreciate it.

0:43.6

And I'm glad we don't have to, you know, get out here in these streets and have a gang gang come after.

0:48.6

I mean, some rules are easier to follow than others.

0:51.3

Yes.

0:52.3

So, man, I don't even know where to begin with. to follow than others. Yes.

0:53.0

So, man, I don't even know where to begin with this movie.

0:56.4

I feel like it's a perfect day to be talking about it, though,

0:59.3

because I feel like it's ominously nice out today, a phrase I never thought I would utter, and it really

1:06.4

highlights the kind of Belize that follows us around wherever we go in late capitalism.

1:13.6

Yeah, yeah, it's strange, like all over the country, it's like 70 degrees and it's on the outside in the middle of winter. It's not right. We know we're going to end up paying for it, but we can enjoy it now while it lasts, which is a big part of what this film is about some people are able to finagle their way to getting some luxuries and advantages that under capitalism they quote unquote don't deserve and they know it won't last but hey they enjoy it.

1:48.0

That was a very good segue. So before we jump into the plot of this movie, I want to read a quote from Bong Jun Ho, the director.

1:59.0

They really made the rounds and left Twitter and hopefully beyond,

2:03.0

beyond.

2:03.7

I mean, yes, beyond, definitely,

2:05.3

because it comes from an interview in a real magazine,

2:09.7

or I forget where it comes from, actually.

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