Overjoyed and Overwhelmed with "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" | Episode 18

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Speculative or pretentious? Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a fusion of stop-motion, animation, and camera phone footage is a headache, and heartache of unrequited art-school love. A tedious arthouse film where humans can be either satellites or planets either mindlessly revolving or gropingly gravitating. Smoke some weed and bring your notebook for this glorious stench.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Side by Side, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy, and staying
0:12.0	on the same page in this marriage, Bebe Bebe, I am one of your incredible hosts Amber
0:17.1	Wallin.
0:18.1	I'm Ben.
0:19.1	Welcome to the show Ben, and welcome to the show listeners.
0:22.3	This is episode 18.
0:24.6	We sat down and watched the movie and oversimplification of her beauty by Terence Nance.
0:30.4	It was written by him and directed by him, and we have a lot of thoughts.
0:35.2	Today, we will discuss the bane of my existence, an art house film, a film that could have
0:40.4	been a fucking poem or an adolescent journal.
0:43.4	We will discuss this puke fest of a movie, Ben, you love this pretentious movie.
0:46.8	Talk to me about it, please, because I'm over it.
0:49.4	I had loved this movie.
0:51.2	It was too much.
0:52.2	What do you mean by it too much?
0:55.9	I understand, like, these movies are important, and there's this, like, artistic new R and
1:01.2	all of that kind of stuff, but it felt like one big acid trip.
1:05.8	It wasn't a narrative or a story about characters.
1:09.8	It was just reflection.
1:11.2	It was somebody's diary on screen that that's what I was watching.
1:16.1	But who's the character in a diary, the person writing it?
1:19.9	Yeah, but this, we learned little to nothing about our actual character.
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