Episode 181 - The Art of Self-Defense

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07/13/24 • 138 min

In this episode of the show we are beginning our July conversations on Men in Crisis, jumping directly off a month on Distressed Dads, and we commence with a great chat about The Art of Self-Defense. Over the course of our debate you will hear us talk about this movie fitting in the legacy of David Fincher's Fight Club, Jesse Eisenberg's awkward presence and the story's potentially divisive take on depicting toxic influences. We also talk about how much this movie owes to Wes Anderson, the kinds of metal Jesse Eisenberg listens to and whether it is appropriate to charge fifteen dollars for a lost belt.

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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows

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Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows

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In this episode of our ongoing 2024 Spike Lee project, we are diving deep into the 1999 Summer of Sam. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us speculate as to why Spike Lee chose to make this movie in particular, how it relates to his ongoing interests and whether it pauses the filmmaker's streak of activist black cinema, or maybe if it continues it by assuming a different perspective. We also talk about Adrien Brody's accent, Son of Sam as a societal lightning rod, talking dogs and the whether the movie itself is a tacit acknowledgment that America as Lee saw it was going through an identity crisis.

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BONUS Tie-in 37 - Fight Club (teaser)

Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show.

In this podcast we are tying into our month-long conversation about male mental health and men in crisis and we are talking about David Fincher's Fight Club. Over the course of our sprawling and amazingly varied conversation you will hear us talk about the magic of Chuck Palahniuk's writing, the anatomy of this movie's central twist and the slick allure of a late-90s cult classic. We also talk about how its alleged toxicity can be easily dismantled, how the movie smuggles a difficult conversation about Gen-X and elder Millennial men, how it speaks to fundamental concepts of stoic masculinity and how it shows them warped into a cult and more, all in addition to unpacking this movie's cultural legacy, correcting its scientific errors and trying to make sense of its ending.

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