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Cinema of Meaning - Ep. 9: Annihilation

Ep. 9: Annihilation

04/28/22 • 52 min

Cinema of Meaning

Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the challenges of depicting the incomprehensible, the problem of identity in an ever-transforming world, and our tendency for self-sabotage and self-destruction, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation.

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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the challenges of depicting the incomprehensible, the problem of identity in an ever-transforming world, and our tendency for self-sabotage and self-destruction, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation.

Get ad-free episodes a week early and access to a monthly bonus episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning (Signing up using our link supports the podcast).

Become part of the Cinema of Meaning community by supporting us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on YouTube:

Thomas Flight: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlight

Like Stories of Old: https://youtube.com/c/LikeStoriesofOld

Cinema of Meaning: https://www.youtube.com/@cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on Nebula:

Thomas Flight: https://nebula.tv/thomasflight

Like Stories of Old: https://nebula.tv/lsoo

Cinema of Meaning: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning

Follow us:

Cinema of Meaning: https://twitter.com/CinemaofMeaning

Tom van der Linden https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO

Thomas Flight https://twitter.com/thomasflight

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Ep. 8: Zodiac

Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the strange comfort of murder mysteries, the link between puzzles and existentialism, and the humanity that arises in shared conflict, in David Fincher’s Zodiac.

Get ad-free episodes a week early and access to a monthly bonus episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning (Signing up using our link supports the podcast).

Become part of the Cinema of Meaning community by supporting us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on YouTube:

Thomas Flight: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlight

Like Stories of Old: https://youtube.com/c/LikeStoriesofOld

Cinema of Meaning: https://www.youtube.com/@cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on Nebula:

Thomas Flight: https://nebula.tv/thomasflight

Like Stories of Old: https://nebula.tv/lsoo

Cinema of Meaning: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning

Follow us:

Cinema of Meaning: https://twitter.com/CinemaofMeaning

Tom van der Linden https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO

Thomas Flight https://twitter.com/thomasflight

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Ep. 10: The Lighthouse

Thomas and Tom discuss Lovecraftian horror, isolation and the dark tale of... Thomas and Tom; two men who go mad together in a phallic shaped building, in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.

Get ad-free episodes a week early and access to a monthly bonus episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning (Signing up using our link supports the podcast).

Become part of the Cinema of Meaning community by supporting us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on YouTube:

Thomas Flight: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlight

Like Stories of Old: https://youtube.com/c/LikeStoriesofOld

Cinema of Meaning: https://www.youtube.com/@cinemaofmeaning

Check us out on Nebula:

Thomas Flight: https://nebula.tv/thomasflight

Like Stories of Old: https://nebula.tv/lsoo

Cinema of Meaning: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning

Follow us:

Cinema of Meaning: https://twitter.com/CinemaofMeaning

Tom van der Linden https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO

Thomas Flight https://twitter.com/thomasflight

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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