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Show Me The Meaning! – A Wisecrack Movie Podcast

The Zone of Interest: The Evil of Banality

Show Me The Meaning! – A Wisecrack Movie Podcast

Wisecrack

Comedy, Education, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 14 November 2024

ā±ļø 109 minutes

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Summary

The crew is joined by recurring guest Mallory Blair to talk Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST! Starting off with the worst take of all time on this film, this conversation ranges from the filmmaking techniques within, similar Holocaust films, materialism and other philosophy lessons, the very obvious comparisons to the events unfolding in Gaza, and the evil of the banality. ...enjoy? Join the SHOW ME THE MEANING! LIVESTREAM every Tuesday at 5 PM PST on the Wisecrack 2 channel! https://youtube.com/@wisecrack_2 Follow us on Twitter! @austin_hayden (Austin) @creamatoria (Raymond) and on Letterboxd! @SMTMPod @creamatoria @izbel (Henry) Ā© 2024 Wisecrack / Enthusiast Gaming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Wisecrack 2's. Tell Me the Meaning.

0:06.7

Podcasts about the movies we love. Sometimes the movies that we watch, I don't, I,

0:16.8

Brenda had asked me after this movie if I enjoyed it.

0:21.1

And I was like, I don't know.

0:22.9

Like, you know, it's great.

0:25.8

But I would not use the word enjoy.

0:29.1

I read a review that was like provided in the rundown by our producer, Matt.

0:33.9

And first of all, the review I I rarely get furious at reviewers

0:39.3

because I'm like oh it's just I was furious is this the review that was just like

0:43.7

the gimmick runs out of basically yeah I think I made it two words into that

0:48.6

review and I said fuck it's one of the dingong blogger or whatever yeah and one of the

0:54.1

things they said was they basically were like, nothing happens,

0:58.6

and they could have like easily made it where like, you know, Haas like messes up and Hitler's about to get mad at him.

1:04.8

And then so, and I'm like, dude, why are you manufacturing this drama shit?

1:08.2

I was like, first of all, that's stupid.

1:09.2

But second of all, the thing that they said was like, you know, you, it would have been a more enjoyable experience if, do, do, do, do, I'm like, motherfucker.

1:18.9

Enjoyable. Is that your metric for like art?

1:21.6

I love the notion. Yeah. The notion of this person's idea, yeah, how to manufacture some drama, some conflict, so we can really have a rooting interest in the Rudolph Ha's story.

1:35.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:35.6

And then I also kind of want to be like, or like, first of all, I actually think that there's a lot going on on the screen, but even more importantly, the real plot or the real narrative is what takes place off the screen.

1:51.0

And that's the point of the movie, is that the movie is supposed to engage your imagination as humans who live in the wake of the Holocaust and who understand this,

2:05.2

and who also understand the possibilities that there are maybe potentially many holocausts, and I use real big air quotes on that,

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