Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I actually dig that werewolf plot because it seems like a wild exaggeration of everyday imagination about famous people's private lives. Imagination corporations like TMZ nurture and capitalise on.
That (re)creation and capitalisation of people's imagination about the lives of superstars obviously has its material conditions of production. The episode tries to explore them in two directions.
The first being a portrayal of paparazzi work as extremely precarious. Paparazzi photographers have to pay rent, buy food, survive. Problems famous people…
I bring a sort of investor bro vibe to the party that rich lefty academics don't really like.
Witty portrayal of self-serving, hypocritical intellectual elit and their career-centered lifestyles. Characters represent all dramatis personae that you can possibly find at a random european faculty of arts (a renowed writer-professor sleeping with his much yunger phd collegue, a women studies lesbian profesor who builds her career on the backs of ppl around her (very Tár-ish), a yoga obssesed new age philosopher…