0:00.0	Hello, you, welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies.
0:13.5	Today we are talking about showgirls. We're talking about it with Ariel Demir and Crystal.
0:20.1	I'm your host today, Alex Steed. I'm very much looking forward to talking about it with Ariel Demir and Crystal. I'm your host today, Alex Steed. I'm very much looking
0:23.2	forward to talking about all this and more with y'all. If you are new to you are good at
0:28.3	feelings podcasts about movies. What we do is in the name. We are not film critics. We're not here
0:32.5	to say this film was good or this film was bad. We're here to talk about how these movies make
0:36.3	us feel about who and how we are in the world. That is what we're up to. And if that sounds good to you, we are
0:43.2	exactly the show for you. Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven, of
0:50.7	course, written by Joe Estrahaus, starring Elizabeth Berkley Haemoisachlan, Gina Gershon, and many others.
0:57.4	The film focuses on an ambitious young woman hitching a ride to Las Vegas to pursue her dreams
1:01.6	of being a professional dancer and showgirl.
1:05.3	Content warning today for the movie and for the conversation.
1:09.2	This movie notoriously includes a pretty brutal rape scene in it, and it happens in the movie and for the conversation. This movie notoriously includes a pretty brutal
1:11.7	rape scene in it. And it happens in the movie, so just know that if you haven't seen the movie
1:16.4	yet, know that. And also, we have a conversation about that scene and have a conversation
1:22.8	about its place in the movie and how people involved in the movie itself feel after the fact
1:28.9	about its inclusion. So just know we are going to have a conversation. I usually say when we
1:33.4	talk about these things, we kind of don't go deep into them. We don't go deep, deep, necessarily
1:38.2	into great detail, but we do have this conversation. And I want you to know that as you go into it.
1:45.4	Crystal is a drag queen, a DJ, and a political commentator.
1:49.0	It has been on the show before several times.
1:52.5	I hope we'll come back to the show several times again, if not more times, many more times.
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