Ep. 9: Annihilation
04/28/22 • 52 min
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.
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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.
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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.
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