Ryan McNeil
Runtime
68 minutes
Show Contents
0:00 Introduction
1:59 Know Your Enemy with Guest – Britany A. Murphy
17:57 The New Slang: DON’T WORRY DARLING
39:11 Spoiler Section
53:53 The Other Side: Britany and Ryan talk further reading after Olivia Wilde’s film
Thoughts from Your Host…
Welcome back! How have you been? How’s the family? Seen anything good?
I wager that coming back from a break with an episode like this might seem like a feisty move – after all, what could my guest and I have to say about this film that hasn’t already been said? Well, plenty, as it turns out, because of everything I’ve seen mentioned about this film over the last few weeks, so little of it has been about the film.
I could understand if you looked at the topic of this episode and thought about moving along from pure oversaturation on the topic…but I’d gently request that you come and join us anyway. This show has seldom been interested in the goings-on surrounding a film, and we aren’t about to start now. Certainly not when there are so many interesting things to talk about in regards to what’s happening on the screen.
That’s what we’ve been trying to do for nearly 300 episodes…and we’re not about to stop trying now.
Again – Welcome back. Time for me to get back to work.
Links mentioned in Episode 292…
The LAST NIGHT IN SOHO dance sequence:
Britany’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome and thank you very much for listening.
Enjoy!
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I really enjoyed the movie, I really don’t get the hate. Its as if everyone else has seen a different movie to me! Most people who say it isn’t any good are unable to express what’s wrong with it. While I don’t agree with all your reasoning, at least you were both able to articulate your misgivings.
You suggest there is a scene missing, I don’t think there is. Jack has chosen this radicle direction in life autonomously; he believes he know what is best for Alice and it is his job to provide that without discussion. This is the men can’t ride shotgun you talk about idea. He is a man who thinks he should be an alpha male but is crippled with insecurity and inferiority. Britany used the perfect expression when she said that Alice her autonomy taken away. Had they explored this more it would have changed the film fundamentally. The more they explore the flashbacks of what happens the more they make the character a monster, that takes away from the idea, that there are lots of other monsters just like him. Also, it becomes less of Alice’s story.
You commented but didn’t explore on the fact we don’t find out what the guys/boys are doing while the women are shopping. They do! When the men “go to work” they are leaving the simulation to go and work jobs in the real world so they can afford to stay in the “program”. This is also an interesting concept. They are doing something they hate to fund a fantasy that has taken over their lives. It isn’t that different to the crisis of capitalism (and masculinity) that Tyler Durden was talking about a generation ago.