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#240 - Hope and Despair (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-02 02:42:53
Edited:
2021-06-02 02:42:56
Imported:
2024-06

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Paul Schrader's FIRST REFORMED (2017) looks at a world that might be beyond saving, and asks: "How can we go on living?" We discuss how this great film about religion, capitalism, and the environment is a rare Movie Of The Moment that actually is one. PLUS: the legacy of Canada's residential schools.

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John Tobias

Really beautiful to put the funeral song at end. Extremely well done ep

Pete Seeger

When I watched Winter Light I remember thinking how our generation’s atomic bomb was climate change and how the shape and form of these particular apocalyptic scenarios differed. The imminence of instant death by nuclear tech vs the protracted attrition of compounding ecological breakdown. I find it interesting that the protagonist wanted to essentially kill himself and a few others in an explosive instant, as opposed to violence against infrastructure essential to the continuation of fossil fuel extraction and production. If dude was into Thomas Merton, as Cedric the Entertainer’s character alluded to, you’d figure he’d have taken the ELF approach before murder/suicide. You might call it a function of capitalist realism or EofH that Schroeder was unable to see this (ahem) third way, which still would’ve worked with the optimistic ending intact. Great episode.