S4E1: ADVANTAGEOUS
Episode description
Kicking off the fourth season of your favorite podcast about mindfuck movies, we look deep into ADVANTAGEOUS, a 2015 low-budget sci-fi darling of Sundance. Directed and co-written by Jennifer Phang, starring and co-written by Jacqueline Kim, with a welcome understated performance by Ken Jeong, the movie explores eternal themes amid a futuristic backdrop that looks all too familiar: How will competition for the best jobs work in a more crowded world? What happens when technology is good enough to make many careers obsolete? When it comes to self-improvement, how far is too far? And will we become almost totally inured to terrorism? This week, Bill and Renan are joined by Nisha Chittal, aka Renan's better half, who brings a feminist perspective to this subtly socio-political speculative fiction.
Film links:
- Watch Advantageous on Netflix
- Advantageous on IMDb
- Advantageous on Wikipedia
- Review at The Dissolve
- Review at WIRED
- Review at NY Times
- Review at Gizmodo
- Watch original short film on YouTube
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