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304. Frame Rate: Fantastic Planet (Feat. David Christopher Bell) (Patreon)

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2020-07-27 13:00:08
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2023-12
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Michael, Abe, and Dave are entranced by the 1973 animated French-Czechoslovakian film Fantastic Planet and its sci-fi, psychedelic landscapes. They deconstruct the larger metaphor of the film and stare into its general weirdness. It’s in the Criterion Collection, so it must be important!

Everyone thank minefreak555 for generously donating toward this episode. We love you, you freak of mine. 

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David Christopher Bell: https://twitter.com/MovieHooligan

Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP

Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty

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Andrew Marinus

Nice ep. The snickering creature seems to be sadism, bloodlust, violence-for-power; the shot lingers on the dead on the ground, outside the cage, so it clearly isn't killing for sustenance. The central quality of the Draag's that jumped out to me was how desperately (and becoming louder and louder in the 'Senate') they were trying to maintain and defend their belief that the Om's were unintelligent, despite clear and mounting evidence of their intelligence. i.e. normalization of beliefs that a marginalized group lack personhood, and so they may be mistreated - such that no one cares that the children carelessly kill a mother in the very first sequence. Vonnegut's 'filing away gears' on societal level - or keeping the established racket going. The director organizing puppetshows for the psych patients (in the 60s or whatever) seems to demonstrate his underlying compassion, when the time was dominated by lobotomization and institutionalization - 'removing' the problem from where the populace can see them, not treating them as persons.

James Duf

Hey Beans, i think part of the significance of Ohm went right over your heads. Ohms are the unit for electrical resistance. Whether they chose that name themselves or it was given by their oppressors, i'm not sure as i haven't seen this particular film; but either way, it's definitely metaphor calling the lesser a "resistance;" Much like in the real world, we're seeing Trump continually label pritesters as "rioters," "looters," among other distasteful propaganda phrases. It's part of what's establishing the Ohms as the "other"

SmallBeans
>>41209540

Interesting take! The script spells it "Oms" so I'm not sure it's exactly just that. I could definitely see it meaning both things. -ABE