Welcome again to our Bootlegg'd segment, where we tune in this time to
watch "Sita Sings the Blues", an animated adaptation of The Ramayana, a
famous and hugely influential Indian epic. This incarnation of the story
focuses on a woman's struggle to be worthy of her husband's love, but the
movie is about a whole lot more, including thinly veiled domestic abuse
parallels, the author's own personal struggles, and anachronistic media
presentations from across the ages that somehow form a more perfect whole.
And our discussion is about even more than that, so get ready for a
record-breaking number of disclaimers at the top of the episode, the
eternal struggle of separating content from creator, and an unreasonable
number of Jojo's references. That's all!
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