Basic Instinct

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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"She seduces and manipulates people. She'll do anything she can." In which we attempt to unpack what the heck Basic Instinct is under the impression it's trying to say. You Are Good is made possible with your support! Thanks for supporting us on Patreon and Apple Podcast Subscriptions! Magpie Cinema Club is wonderful!linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub (http://linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub)Carolyn's tour:https://www.carolynkendrick.com/tour (https://www.carolynkendrick.com/tour)Alex’s zine:https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture)Alex's newsletter thing:https://alexsteed.substack.com/ (https://alexsteed.substack.com/)You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here:https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/ (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/)You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here:https://www.pcrf.net/ (https://www.pcrf.net/)Miranda Zickler produced and edited this episode:https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster)We appreciate y'all so much!

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0:00.0	Hello you and welcome to You Are Good of Healing's podcast about movies.
0:13.3	Today we are talking about basic instinct.
0:15.9	I am one of your hosts, Alex Steed, and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host, Sarah Marshall.
0:22.8	It's worth noting I'm recording this on Rex Manning Day. Remember when we talked about
0:25.9	Empire Records with Nico Stratus a couple years back around this time of year? Go check that out.
0:31.6	If you haven't listened in a while, that's a fun one. You Are Good is a Feelings podcast about
0:36.2	movies. This is what that means.
0:38.6	We are not critics.
0:40.1	We speak about movies critically.
0:45.1	Sometimes you heard our nine and a half weeks episode last week, but we're here to unpack the feelings, as it were.
0:48.0	And, you know, try to get a better sense of what was going on when these movies came out.
0:52.2	Where we're at now, So on and so forth.
0:56.0	This episode, we've got just general, with these erotic thrillers, we've got sort of broad content warnings.
1:04.8	But with this one, we have some gun violence, scary violence.
1:09.4	And in the movie, there is a rape scene and we discuss
1:12.2	that scene at some length in our conversation. We don't get into the details as we typically
1:19.2	don't in our episodes, but we do bring it up. We do talk about it. We talk about what it means
1:24.8	with regard to the characters. And just want to let you
1:28.7	know that that's in here, just in case that's something you don't want to spend time with today.
1:32.9	If you don't want to spend time with it, go check out that Empire Records episode. It's a good one.
1:37.3	Anyway, basic instincts is a 1992 erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by
1:42.3	Joe Estrahaas, stars Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone,
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