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766: #766 - The Cultural and Moral Significance of Joker

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🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary


Preston was speaking at University of Northwestern in Minneapolis and in between talks he and his good friend, Luke Thompson, went out to see the movie The Joker. That evening, Preston and Luke went out to a local pub and talked about the cultural and moral significance of the movie. It is--in Preston and Luke’s opinion--one of the most culturally and morally significant movies in the last decade. Listen to find out why.


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0:00.0

The I'm going to do. Okay, so this is Preston with my good friend Luke Thompson. We are in Minneapolis. Are we in

0:40.4

Minneapolis or St. Paul? This is Minneapolis.

0:43.0

We're still in Minneapolis.

0:44.0

And Luke and I, I'm out here on a speaking engagement at University of Northwestern,

0:51.0

gave a few talks, but then in between. University of Northwestern,

0:55.0

gave a few talks, but then in between talks, Luke and I went out to go see the Joker.

0:58.0

And I think it was a couple weeks ago,

1:01.0

you told me that, no, three weeks ago when the Joker first came out,

1:06.4

did you say it was one of the most morally significant movies?

1:10.8

You didn't say morally, you didn't say morally morally what was your phrase how would you describe

1:16.7

the joker I was saying the best movies you ever seen yeah well definitely in

1:20.8

recent in recent memory

1:24.2

it's one of the most culturally

1:26.6

significant movies and

1:30.4

culturally significant yeah that that's come out in a while and really high quality art.

1:36.0

I think that it's, and I mean movies that are significant don't always get I mean they don't always get a lot of

1:46.0

public recognition or do well at the box office but this one has and so I think

1:51.8

that's I think this is one of those rare times when those things overlap like the the success of it is significant. I think in

2:02.4

Evidencing that there's something deeper being tapped in there.

2:05.0

We should tell people where we're at.

2:07.0

We are sitting at what's in this place?

2:09.0

Well, I was just trying, so like this is the Red Stags Supper Club.

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