Hollywood - 'Swingers' (1996), 'Under the Silver Lake' (2018) & 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019)
What does the Hollywood pilgrimage require? What is the power of Hollywood? How does one succeed on the big stage? Often the subject of its own creations, there is no shortage of films that depict lif...
19 Sep 202129min
Creation - 'The Golem' (1920), '8½' (1963) & 'Ed Wood' (1994)
What does it take to create something? What is the life of a creator? How should we respond to art and creative expressions? In this episode, we discuss three cinematic depictions of creators and anal...
5 Sep 202129min
Men with Gravity - 'Fatal Attraction' (1987), 'Misery' (1990) & 'Cape Fear' (1991)
What kinds of men attract attention? How do we justify our obsessions? What are the ultimate sources of betrayal and vengeance? Following a past episode on 'Women with Gravity', this episode focuses o...
5 Sep 202129min
The Modern Quest - 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972), 'Stalker' (1979) & 'Old Joy' (2006)
What are we the ultimate goals of modernity? Is it dangerous to abandon modernity? Can we live in harmony with nature? In this episode, we discuss the concepts of development, ideology and environment...
5 Sep 202129min
Women with Gravity - 'The Collector' (1967), 'Shiva Baby' (2020) & 'Ema' (2019)
Why do women often feel suffocated? Is idolatry inevitable? How should we view others? In this episode, we discuss multiple cinematic depictions of women who attract attention and contemplate the dang...
5 Sep 202129min
Female Victimhood - 'La Strada' (1954), 'Requiem for a Dream' (2000) & 'Rashomon' (1950)
Is victimhood gender-specific? How should we attribute blame? Are claims to victimhood universal? Following a past episode on 'Male Victimhood', this episode compares the journeys of various female ch...
5 Sep 202129min
Mortality - 'The Seventh Seal' (1957), 'The Fountain' (2006) & 'Ikiru' (1952)
How does our impending death impact our lives? What does it mean to die? How should we spend our time on Earth? In this episode, we look at three cinematic explorations of death to gain some insight i...
5 Sep 202128min
The Duality of Man - 'Apocalypse Now' (1979), 'Persona' (1966) & 'Mulholland Drive' (2001)
How do we reconcile our sense of rationality with our emotions? Are there various lenses through which we can understand human nature? In this episode, we explore and question the traditional dualisti...
5 Sep 202129min
