You Did It Sober, You Monster?

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Mr stand o, retrece and experiments, except at the saation is reading text. Here's what i wanted to bring up, actually, earlier, en, that's related to this em the speech says, there must have been something deep inside of you from the very start. And we've talked about the possibility that this is why, at the end, he's not a normal person,. That's why he was able to take these arguments, because iafn mental level like this was just, he's af broken human being, or he's evil, like those. But really, one of the reasons that i realize i don't like this speech is because the scarier

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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