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How Eddington and Weapons hold a mirror up to our Panic World [Audio] [Exclusive]

🕑 Added 2025-09-24 07:01:03 +0000 UTC

Comments

Vincent

Perhaps the kid is a POS because the dad, too, is a POS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Duncan

That's a big WAV file 😅 but a great discussion

yakul

i really enjoyed this episode. and i strongly agree that movies like weapons can be way more effective and enduring than horror with 1:1 metaphors. people can forget that monsters always have the potential to be figurative / metaphorical so writing it in explicitly often feels clunky and redundant. in eddington, i got the feeling the guys on the plane were supposed to be p.b. types but there was something a little off about how it was handled. like it was unclear if aster was trying to show how capitalists will opportunisticly use fascists as a means to an end, or if the fascists and capitalists in this scenario were just the same guys. i'm inclined to think the first one but I also think that's going to go over a lot of people's heads.