How Eddington and Weapons hold a mirror up to our Panic World [Audio] [Exclusive]
Added 2025-09-24 07:01:03 +0000 UTCTwo of 2025’s biggest movie releases so far, Eddington (basically Panic World: The Movie) and Weapons, are not the same genre but they both offer interesting looks into the state of our society today. Grant joins Ryan to talk about the thematic links between them and examine the question: how do you cover moral panics, mass hysteria, and the internet without just commenting on everything else that’s already been said?
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Perhaps the kid is a POS because the dad, too, is a POS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vincent
2025-10-01 12:37:44 +0000 UTCThat's a big WAV file 😅 but a great discussion
Duncan
2025-10-01 07:30:35 +0000 UTCi 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.
yakul
2025-09-26 06:51:22 +0000 UTCCan't wait for you guys to do one of these about One Battle After Another 😉
Philip R Smith
2025-09-26 05:05:01 +0000 UTC
