Very Bad Wizards15 Juli 2014

Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal

Dude, do you ever think about how, like, we could be all be in the Matrix? Seriously, no no, dude, I'm being serious. It's like, none of this might be real, you know?

Actually we don't know. We honestly can't believe we made it to 50 episodes, so we must be brains in a vat. But we play along and celebrate with...a movie episode! We list our five favorite films about the subjective or questionable nature of reality. Our only rule: we couldn't choose The Matrix. Listen to this episode--your Mom says it's psychologically taut.

Links

Kramer, A. D., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rashomon (David) [imdb.com]
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Tamler and David) [imdb.com]
Banksy on "Life Remote Control" (clip, youtube.com)
- Paul Bloom on art and forgery [ted.com]
Spirited Away (Tamler) [imdb.com]
My Neighbor Totoro (David) [imdb.com]
- Mr. Snuffleupagus [wikipedia.org]
Adaptation (Tamler) [imdb.com]
Donnie Darko (David) [imdb.com]
Stories we Tell (Tamler) [imdb.com]
Waking Life (David) [imdb.com]
- Robert Solomon [wikipedia.org]
Mulholland Drive (Tamler) [imdb.com]

Tamler's Honorable Mentions

Primer
Dark City
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Memento
The Truman Show
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
Purple Rose of Cairo
The Conversation
Shutter Island

Some SPOILER ALERT Links

Tim Minchin summarizes Donnie Darko in song [youtube.com]
Everything you were afraid to ask about Mulholland Drive by Bill Wyman, Max Garrone, and Andy Klein [salon.com]

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