Great episode! Finally, I'm a subscriber. I had to lend a credit card for that.... I hope, Substack will become more open to other forms of payment in the future. Anyway, glad to finally being able to check out all the other content. Keep it up!
After watching the film then listening I think I agree with your take on it Benedetta as allegory for Verhoeven themselves.
What surprised me about the film, after watching a glut of crappy media the past ~2 years is how gory the film was in spots. Refreshing to be reminded that the medium can still shock.
You guys are into a wonderful topic area--religion as politics--politics as religion/crisis of meaning in our lives/power and faith--please keep finding a way to examine these issues more--if nothing else you audience might explode/expand dramatically!
OK, I'll check it out, thanks! And in checking IMDB, I do think I might have seen this when it came out but somehow forgot about it. Wow 1995 seems like a different lifetime now. I tend to favor the more edgy/uncomfortable stuff so I'm sure I won't have a problem with the rest of his films lol.
Great episode! Finally, I'm a subscriber. I had to lend a credit card for that.... I hope, Substack will become more open to other forms of payment in the future. Anyway, glad to finally being able to check out all the other content. Keep it up!
Thanks!
After watching the film then listening I think I agree with your take on it Benedetta as allegory for Verhoeven themselves.
What surprised me about the film, after watching a glut of crappy media the past ~2 years is how gory the film was in spots. Refreshing to be reminded that the medium can still shock.
You guys are into a wonderful topic area--religion as politics--politics as religion/crisis of meaning in our lives/power and faith--please keep finding a way to examine these issues more--if nothing else you audience might explode/expand dramatically!
I'd never heard of Todd Solondz until just now and I consider myself a film buff. Which of his movies do you recommend watching first?
welcome to the doll house is his most commercially successful and i would say mild film. start there! and then keep going!
OK, I'll check it out, thanks! And in checking IMDB, I do think I might have seen this when it came out but somehow forgot about it. Wow 1995 seems like a different lifetime now. I tend to favor the more edgy/uncomfortable stuff so I'm sure I won't have a problem with the rest of his films lol.
Also recommend the book on Solondz by Julian Murphet if you want to get into theory of it all
Dang, this guy must be pretty important in the film world if people are writing books about him.