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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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For the final double-bill of the season, Mike is joined by Susan Calman to discuss two modern classics in the home-invasion subgenre: Jordan Peele's US (2019) and Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning PARASITE (2019).
Music by Jack Whitney.
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0:00.0 | The For decades now, now home invasion has proved to be the perfect sub-genre to comment on class and economics. |
0:30.0 | So often the films take place in big affluent homes and the haves are violently |
0:36.7 | invaded by the have-nots. When these films are done well they provide a rich and |
0:42.0 | nuanced commentary and satire on both groups. |
0:45.5 | What are you people? |
0:47.5 | We're Americans. |
0:50.9 | And arguably no two home invasion movies have done this better than a pair of films released in 2019, us and Parasite. |
1:02.0 | There's a family in our driveway. With us, Jordan Peel followed up his Oscar |
1:06.2 | winning Get Out with something much bigger and more ambitious, juggling social satire with tense taught home invasion. |
1:17.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, containing some of the scariest set pieces Jordan Peel has ever directed. |
1:26.0 | So, stop waiting. |
1:28.0 | Wait, where? |
1:29.0 | I'm going to die. |
1:31.0 | In the United States, And with Parasite, Korean director Bong Junhune Ho did the impossible. |
1:37.0 | And with parasite, Korean director Bong Jun Ho did the impossible. |
1:41.0 | As a filmmaker known for genre films like Monster Movie Host, he made a home invasion |
1:47.0 | movie so smart and so entertaining it won over audiences, critics, and awards voters around the world, |
1:55.0 | making it the first and only home invasion film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. |
2:02.0 | And the Oscar for Best Picture. |
2:02.7 | And the Oscar goes to Parasite. |
2:06.3 | Join me as we conclude our home invasion season with two modern masterpieces. Jordan Peels us and |
2:17.3 | Bong June Ho's parasite. Oh really, call the police. |
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