Michael and Us: Rorschach Tests
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the UK's Minister for International Development accidentally calls an inevitable war "unforeseeable"? We discuss Armando Iannucci's beloved political satire IN THE LOOP (2009) and what it says about the culture of spin in U.K. politics. PLUS: further developments in the Canadian trucker protest, and thoughts on that most important institution of all: the Oscars.
Mayor Ed Koch's movie review show - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl1C-jPg7L4nsHg6EVgAXvQ
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 | Music |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always well. |
| 0:28.8 | Alex Savage. Welcome back everyone. You know, I'm always paying attention to the most important |
| 0:32.9 | news stories of our time. And look, it's been a bit of a hard year for me, |
| 0:37.6 | but I found that the year is never so hard that when the Oscar nominees are announced, |
| 0:43.6 | I don't like look at my phone and go, oh, I wonder what got nominated. |
| 0:47.6 | That happened this week, by the way, folks. That's why I raised it. The Oscar nominations for |
| 0:51.9 | announced this week. You probably didn't even notice because who cares anymore? Nobody cares. |
| 0:57.6 | I did look and see what was nominated. And I have no opinion whatsoever about what was nominated. |
| 1:02.5 | You know, I could say, oh, I like this one. I don't like that. Who cares? |
| 1:06.9 | I'd like to fist bump David Sarota for his nomination for Don't Look Up, wouldn't you? |
| 1:12.8 | I hope he wins. I think that would make a lot of people upset. And I think that'd be very funny. |
| 1:17.7 | You know what I will say, folks? The movie Drive My Car, which was nominated for Best Picture, |
| 1:22.6 | is a beautiful film. I highly recommend people check that film out. |
| 1:26.3 | That's a recommendation from your old friend Will. That's the only opinion I will have |
| 1:30.8 | about the nominations. But here's what I'll say. I think within the Dex 10 years, |
| 1:35.9 | the Oscars are really going to have to merge with the Emmys. Because who are we kidding anymore? |
| 1:41.4 | You listen to people talk about succession. You listen to people talk about euphoria. |
| 1:45.3 | Those are the shows that are capturing the zeitgeist, not being the Ricardo's. Give me a fucking break. |
| 1:52.7 | Nobody's watching that should not bell fast. And functionally, movies and TV aesthetically, |
| 2:00.1 | technically, no difference anymore. They're the exact same. The main aesthetic difference is |
| 2:05.5 | the TV runs longer and it runs in perpetuity. Right. And that is a major structural difference, |
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