Michael and Us: Meet Me in Helsinki
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Your coworkers are spying on you. Your boss won't let you keep the expired food. The coffeeshop is charging you an arm and a leg to rent a laptop. In Aki Kaurismäki's funny and wonderful FALLEN LEAVES (2023), can a budding romance survive the everyday indignities of life under capitalism? PLUS: What would a British West Wing look like?
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I quite want to be. |
| 0:06.0 | Here a mountain so lofty. |
| 0:09.0 | A tree top so tall. If you're wondering, Luke is showing me the ads for Sound of Freedom on Amazon Prime. |
| 0:18.2 | Are you planning to revisit? |
| 0:19.6 | I mean, these are two of my favorite brands. |
| 0:21.6 | Operation Underground Railroad and Amazon coming together |
| 0:25.8 | to combat child sex trafficking. |
| 0:27.3 | Amazon is actually really promoting it very aggressive. |
| 0:30.1 | Like I've seen ads that are not Amazon ads for it but well I mean in fairness to Amazon it is one of |
| 0:35.8 | Tell me again about woke capital yeah it is one of the ten biggest movies of the year so it is only natural that they would promote it I mean fuck I saw a lot of ads for the |
| 0:44.8 | flash on Craven it made half as much money as sound of freedom did. |
| 0:48.2 | But did we ever establish whether sound of freedom like it made dollars and sense it made okay. I would actually feel bad about watching sound of freedom at home like on a on a streaming app or something because I have to imagine that it's not the same version we saw in theaters because you'll recall |
| 1:04.8 | the version we saw in theaters ended with Jim Kavizal speaking to the audience directly |
| 1:10.2 | imploring us to all buy tickets and he put a QR code on screen. |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah folks we've had a lot of fun tonight but you know it's not fun child sex trafficking |
| 1:18.6 | and there are there are over 300 trillion children being trafficked in the US right now. |
| 1:23.8 | The US alone. |
| 1:24.7 | He put a QR code on screen to invite us to invite all of our friends. |
| 1:28.6 | To invite us and the like other five people in the theater who I don't want to step out a line here but I don't |
| 1:34.4 | think it's the most upright citizens that go besides us to go to see a film like that at |
| 1:39.2 | midday on a Tuesday or wherever it was. Well I don't know today we saw a movie at the exact same |
| 1:43.4 | theater where we saw Sound of Freedom the Carleton cinema and I think it's just a |
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