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Michael and Us

#560 - Carpe Diem

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

First we saw him bring whimsy to the medical sector in Patch Adams... then we saw him make the army wacky in Good Morning Vietnam... now, we reach the conclusion of our "Robin Williams Trilogy" by going back to his mightiest-ever battle against the forces of fuddy-duddiness: DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989). PLUS: A spectre is haunting Europe... the spectre of centre-left capitulation to the far-right. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus See Luke moderate the Toronto book launch for Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics - Friday, September 20 (tonight) at 7pm, Workers Action Centre - https://www.facebook.com/events/1187379669241057

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mr. Lander, what will your pleasure be?

0:04.6

Let me take your other judge it down.

0:07.1

You never feel like me.

0:09.3

I'd like to get a little bit more time for myself to, I don't know, watch better movies and read novels and just engage with art that isn't. well, first of all, I spend a huge amount of

0:23.7

my time just like shoveling coal into the content furnace by watching movies like, you know,

0:29.1

Dead Poet Society. And as I was watching Dead Poet Society today, which we'll get to,

0:35.3

God, will we get to it? I thought to myself, like, God, there's a whole goddamn galaxy of better stuff than this out

0:42.3

there.

0:42.9

And, you know, a couple nights ago, I thought, you know, I'd like to reacquaint myself with

0:47.0

my old friend, our old friend, Mr. Jean-Luc Goddard, and I watched his movie Film Socialism.

0:53.7

Famously inscrutable film.

0:55.3

Yeah, one of his most difficult films, definitely.

0:58.2

And I really had a great time watching it this time.

1:01.0

And watching it 10 or 15 years after it first came out, I was thinking, like, God, this guy

1:05.8

in some ways, like, this is late style, so extreme that it predicted the future.

1:10.5

There are stuff in this movie, the way that he's using just high-res digital, low-res

1:15.2

digital, like cell phone footage.

1:17.5

You know, he's putting in cat videos.

1:19.5

This is like scrolling social media.

1:22.1

This is a poem of the cameras everywhere panopticon.

1:26.6

I just had a great time watching it, and I thought I would like

1:29.1

to find more of a way to just give myself the emotional and time bandwidth to engage with very

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