two writers talk movies & culture
What if … we’re the aliens?
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This guy from this thing would go on to be a guy in a bigger thing.
This entire episode is us shaking our fists at the sky. Turns out a 2015 movie about the 2008 recession is still sadly, painfully relevant.
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It’s 2016 and the U.S. is one big washed-up porn star. Happy new year.
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Oh, Francis Ford Coppola. If only you could have failed better.
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So. Much. Yelling. In. Russian. We watched Sean Baker’s heartrending, tragi-comic new film and then dug into the class conflict / representations of sex work / weaponized wealth of it all.
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It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.
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We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about this movie about a war criminal feeling bad for his crimes (bomb-and-cry). It was late but we were jazzed to talk about war movies, anti-war movies, and what it means to think you’re saving the world. Joe edited out a burp from Cheryl. You’re welcome.
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It’s 1997 and our queens Parker Posey, Toni Collete, and Lisa Kudrow are at the height of their powers playing temps trying to survive in a mind-numbing cubicle hellscape. Clockwatchers, another entry in our ongoing series on labor movies, feels prescient in its representation of disposable workers that sadly still holds true today. Bonus: we reminisce about a few of our own past jobs! There’s some, uh, pallet smashing.
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Once you get us started, we can talk about work until the cows come home, or until it’s 5 o’clock and time to ride the brain-blending elevator down to the floor where you get to be a human again. We talk Kafka, fluorescent lighting, bad design, worker solidarity, personal sh*t, and waffle parties. It’s Severance time, baby.
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In Everything Everywhere All at Once, we get a bedraggled, fed up, middle aged, Chinese immigrant wife and mom as our protagonist (played by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh), and she gets to kick actual ass as she tears through an IRS building while being audited. So yeah, we liked it.
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Sam Levinson’s 2021 Malcolm & Marie is a pandemic movie in that it’s about two people at home who fight, cry, and make mac & cheese. It’s also not a pandemic movie in that it opens with them returning from Malcolm’s movie premiere, presumably with lots of people hugging and breathing on each other. Also, they both stay in their fancy clothes entirely too long after getting home.
We get waaay off course during this conversation and spend some time talking about their gorgeous floor-to-ceiling windows and the general nature of sadness. But that’s what you’re here for, right???
Do we think in Twitter? Can we truly opt out of social media? Have we become machines of our machines? The Social Dilemma has us tackling these questions and so much more. Boot up your brains for a big honking episode. PS – we both shut down our Facebook accounts!!!
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Two For Space Jam, Please 