posted January 8, 2020 #
I promised myself I wouldn't just post about every single new
We Own This Town episode here on yewknee but when they're good, they're worth sharing!
Filmography Club is a film discussion podcast in which host Jason Caviness takes a look at the body of work from one particular filmmaker. Season 1 is all about Paul Thomas Anderson. The latest episode is a discussion about
The Master, the 2012 post-WWII psychological drama that clearly has some parallels with Scientology, even if Anderson won't directly admit it. The guest for the show is my lovely fiance
Becky Delius.
Becky is not a cinephile or a film auteur but she
is a very studied individual when it comes to Cults and their ilk. She's done lots of reading on Scientology and provides some wonderful insight into how the characters Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman play are at odds with one another. Her takeaway from the movie is right at the top of the episode - "a nihilist exploration on the futility of being a human being." It's dark but it's also correct and the evidence that backs it up through the lens of PTA's storytelling is quite compelling.
Hear it
here or wherever you like a podcast.
