(Preview) One Battle After a Freaking Nother
Pod Damn America
Pod Damn America
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And you get into this car chase scene with, like I said earlier, the white challenger, the blue Mustang, both from a bullet. |
| 0:11.0 | And the third car, the one that Leo gets in, is a Nissan Tesoro, I think is what it's called. |
| 0:18.9 | So the significance of this, interestingly, somebody thinks online at least, that that car is very |
| 0:28.2 | popular in Mexico, but not in America, right? |
| 0:32.8 | But apparently in Mexico, it's like the fucking gold standard of like taxis and stuff like that. |
| 0:38.8 | And it's really, really effective and utilitarian. |
| 0:43.1 | And so I feel like Paul Thomas Anderson is really like paying some fucking respect to Mexicans and like the kind of on the ground horizontal decentralized resistance that I've |
| 0:55.4 | been talking about all fucking year going on here and stuff like that. |
| 0:58.8 | And, you know, he's being a little humble about his generation, his class, white people, |
| 1:06.4 | like just the more privileged sort of like thing where you want to go to the frontal line and be |
| 1:12.4 | this like heroic figure you know it's about ego and stuff when you actually go out and you |
| 1:18.1 | want to you want to fight and stuff like that but i don't think it's a 100% indictment of the |
| 1:25.0 | fucking antifa super soldiers and the weather underground and people like that because |
| 1:30.0 | uh like fucking sergeant, Sensei Sergio, Benito del Toro's character, you know, when he, |
| 1:37.4 | when he sees like, when he goes, oh, you were in the fucking French 75, he's like impressed. |
| 1:42.1 | He's a fan of that shit. So I think I don't, I think because PTA is a good, you know, he's a creative person, |
| 1:48.9 | he's a good artist. |
| 1:50.0 | Like you don't get a fucking, um, one dimensional take down of a thing. |
| 1:55.7 | You get a complex exploration of the relationships between, you know, stuff like more overt terrorists and stuff like |
| 2:03.9 | community organizing where it kind of all like, it's a much better argument that like these things |
| 2:09.3 | are in a buck in relationship with each other. They don't exist without each other and stuff like |
| 2:12.7 | that. And I don't know. The whole, the whole thing just gave off like really, really, |
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