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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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A misanthropic catalog of shocking images from around the world, the bizarre, unpleasant, baldly racist, and extremely influential MONDO CANE (1962) was a pioneering "shockumentary." We revisit this strange and ugly artifact to discuss why it was taken so seriously in its day.
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 | I mean, even just like the discussion of the beginning before the movie, I just right |
0:21.0 | now, whatever reason. |
0:22.0 | I feel like before the meeting and before we watch the movie, I just like wasted a lot |
0:27.5 | of good podcast energy, the lesson well is that we should commodify every single conversation. |
0:34.0 | Everything is content. |
0:35.0 | We should become the audio versions of like fucking wet movie in his crew where it's |
0:40.3 | like, if the mic's not there, we might as well not exist. |
0:43.6 | I couldn't agree more. |
0:44.9 | And before we get into this episode, I also just want to say that, you know, all the scenes |
0:48.7 | that you hear in this podcast are true are taken from life. |
0:52.4 | If often they are shocking, it's because there are many shocking things in this world. |
0:56.5 | And besides, the duty of the chronicler is not to sweeten the truth, but to report on |
1:01.9 | it objectively. |
1:04.0 | Welcome to Michael and Hassan Wilsohn. |
1:05.8 | Here is always with Luke Savage, feeling a little renovated, I have to say, by what |
1:10.8 | we've just seen, but I hope to, you know, reclaim some of the energy I had before we |
1:16.7 | started recording, which, you know, we should have, will and I should just record everything |
1:20.7 | because we end up having these spontaneous out of character conversations before we |
1:26.0 | start recording. |
1:27.0 | And of course, once we start recording, I mean, all of this is scripted as we've said |
1:29.3 | before. |
1:30.3 | So we just lose some of that spontaneity and authenticity, and in the case of a session |
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