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The Treatment

Bennett Miller: Foxcatcher

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

"Movies are like people. You trust them, or you don't. And I hate it when a movie lies to me." Bennett Miller discusses his latest film, Foxcatcher

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to The Treatment.

0:01.5

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Find DNA on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

0:33.0

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:35.4

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:36.7

The aphorism, be worth the things you want, or you shall have them, could apply to the films of my guest director, Bennett Miller.

0:42.6

The films, of course, are Capote. Moneyball and his newest Fox Catcher. First of all, thanks much for being here.

0:47.8

Thank you.

0:48.8

I mean, in each case, there's somebody, a protagonist who's vying for something and looking for some kind of a life change and that life change happens and not the way they any of them ever expected to happen.

1:02.2

What does it come from for you?

1:04.9

Oh gosh.

1:08.1

Well, I don't know.

1:09.1

I woke up this morning thinking about disillusionment and how that's not

1:15.5

necessarily a bad thing and that disillusionment can feel like a downer when our dreams are

1:24.8

burst. But for me, it's sort of a necessary step, a rite of passage, you know, about maturing and facing reality in your life as it is, not as you want it to be.

1:41.8

And I think it's, I think it happens that, you know, we pursue our ambitions,

1:49.8

thinking we're pursuing one thing.

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