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Podcast: Swords and Satire
Episode: Episode 111 - Coraline
Description: This week we are continuing our spooky theme with a creepy otherworld adventure film called Coraline, in which a young girl moves to rural Oregon with her starving and distracted writer parents. Coraline finds a portal to a parallel world in her new home in this adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s eponymous novel, and there everything is to her liking, but all is not as it seems and danger lurks behind every smile. Listen in to hear us break down the themes, like family, exploration, class struggle, creepy moms, and dad jokes. We also discuss how this film shows us...