The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McAffe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Edwina, Bring Me, the Anatomy Book edition.

It's Wednesday, July 6th, 2017.

On today's show, the new film from Sophia Coppola

is called The Beguiled. We discuss it and the controversy surrounding its depiction, or really

lack of depiction of slavery. And then Roger Stone has been the dark artist of dirty tricks in

American politics. Since the Nixon era, a new documentary argues that he, more than anyone,

is the Spengali behind our current president. Get Me, Roger Stone, is now streaming on Netflix. And finally, the iPhone turns 10 years old. Joining me today is Slate's editor, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. And Slate's film critic, of course. Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey there, Stephen.

Should we dive in?

The Beguiled is the latest film from director of Sophia Coppola, best known I would say for lost in translation, but also director of the bling ring and virgin suicides and many other esteemed films.

The new one tells the story of a boarding school for girls in the Confederate South.

It's the middle of the war and they take in a wounded Union soldier played by Colin Farrell.

The school is forced by wartime exigencies into self-sufficiency.

The women are genteel but beleaguered and quite isolated.

They're extracting a meager existence from the land.

And each one of them projects her own longing onto Corporal John McBurney

as he plays to each of their hidden desires.

And as you can guess, trouble ensues.

Let's listen to a clip.

Is your leg painting you?

Some.

While I hear numbness would be more grave.

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