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I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

No, I am the father.

Oh, gosh, but... What's in the box? What's in the box?

You maniac!

You blew it up!

Damn, you all the hell!

Hi, this is Dana Stevens here with another slate, spoiler special podcast.

This week we're talking about

Little Women, the Greta Gerwig adaptation of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel, which is not being

released until Christmas Day in good holiday movie style. This is actually more of a Christmas

movie than I realized going in. It opens on a Christmas scene. Yes, I was just thinking that this movie belongs in a canon I've invented of movies called Figgy Pudding Movies,

which is like where everything is very twinkly and cozy and snowy,

and you sort of stand outside the window panes of this movie and you want to come in.

It just looks really warm and inviting. Yeah, It has that kind of dollhouse factor and kind of invites you in

too. I mean, I think it's a movie that isn't just a beautiful object that you look at, but that does

have a kind of intimacy that draws the viewer in. And we can get into that. I mean, that has also

to do with the way that it's a period film, but not a period film, you know, that has a lot of modern touches as well. All right. The voice that you just heard over there was my co-spoiler this week, Rachel Syme, who you're a freelance writer. I write for the New Yorker, the New York Times, mostly at the New Yorker these days. I, yeah, writer, critic, lover of little women.

Yes.

And we saw it together, which was a total treat.

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