PEL Presents PMP#170: Poor Things and Other Yorgos
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the 4-Oscar-winning film Poor Things as well as the other creations of writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos, including most notably The Lobster, Dogtooth, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. These films mix high concepts, purposively stilted line-readings, and increasingly rich cinematography with horror and gross sex.
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop a culture podcast. You're not quite sure what we're on about |
| 0:12.0 | but you know it's unpleasant. |
| 0:13.0 | Likewise is the work of Director Yorgos Lauthemos, whose latest film Poor Things, has won some golden |
| 0:18.8 | globes and as of this recording has been Oscar nominated in 11 categories. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Mark Lintenmeyer and because I did |
| 0:24.5 | fall in love I was not transformed into a dog chicken. |
| 0:27.2 | This is Al Baker born sexy yesterday in the most literal sense. |
| 0:31.2 | Ah poor things, graphic sex, corpse stabbing, |
| 0:34.7 | digestion aids, disfigured faces, brain swapping, animal abuse, |
| 0:39.2 | what's not to love? |
| 0:40.7 | This is Lawrence, where it coming to you from Oklahoma City and I respect this director, but I |
| 0:46.4 | fucking hate his films. |
| 0:47.8 | Oh strong strong! The Oscars will have happened by the time folks hear this, but we wanted |
| 0:54.7 | something Oscars related and poor things has been getting a lot of buzz. I |
| 0:59.3 | didn't really connect it with a larger corpus until we were considering doing |
| 1:04.4 | this and I remember finding the lobster interesting and quirky but ultimately |
| 1:10.5 | it kind of unpleasant and didn't want to watch it again. |
| 1:13.0 | Very unpleasant. |
| 1:14.6 | I did watch it again and I thought it was the most likeable of, you know, |
| 1:19.7 | and poor things is close. |
| 1:21.1 | It's, you know, he has the artsy style, things are drawn out, |
| 1:25.0 | and of course we'll talk about the tone and the gratuitous violence |
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