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Kathryn joins Melvin to discuss our latest Patreon-picked movie; Her! The two discuss the ins-and-outs of digital romance, modern sexuality, and so much more all in a post Chat-GPT world!
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 26-minutes discussing disc rot, media preservation, and the difficulty of preserving media in general all because Melvin found on his copy of On Golden Pond a Documentary special-feature he can’t find any record of online, either on Wikipedia, IMDB, or YouTube. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- Melvin & Kathryn both kick things off with some positives.
- With that out of the way… the cat’s out of the bag: neither Melvin nor Kathryn liked Her.
- Melvin, “[Her] is wrapped up in a visually pleasing film with performers who are very impressive and I find that that might actually be distracting from the flaws of the film.”
- Theo is codependent, and Sam is an enabler.
- Melvin & Kathryn take turns explaining things they didn’t like while using examples from other movies they feel better represent those ideas.
- Melvin felt the technology in the film was kind of terrible.
- Theo is uncomfortable with the idea that a woman would have a desire conflicting with his own.
- Kathryn, “[Theo] has a “pornified” style of relating to women.”
- Discussing the initial sexual encounter with Sam & the “surrogate sex” scene.
- Melvin, “[Theo] is not capable of having a safe sexual encounter with this born-beautiful-yesterday-manic-pixie-dream-girl.”
Recommendations:
- You know we’re cooked when middle class normalities are trending by Ashley Embers (YouTube)
- Possibly in Michigan (1983) (Short Film)
Her is Rated R for language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity. It features Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara, Chris Pratt, Matt Letscher, Olivia Wilde, and Spike Jonze. Directed by Spike Jonze. Her is available here.
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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!
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