Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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Barton Fink - The Coen Brothers Are What to Do
Barton Fink goes very much against that trend. In a character played by Peter Sellers who ends up being launched into the world of Washington. And he's an he's an idiot. He doesn't know anything. But he says these banal statements to people and he takes them as a genius. So it's a semantics movie. You know where on the one hand is something about language. Like he says stuff. like he's a gardener. The film also more generally suggests that how we project what we want to see into people can be misleading.
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