Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
The Shining Is a Pragmatic View of the Movie
There's a lot made of the accounts of humanity sort of like uh becoming self-aware and this movie might be saying you know humans the moment they got the monolith that's what unlocked there. "The baby staring right at us" is such an odd but also just magnificent way to end the movie, says director Ridley Scott. The sound design and music for this movie is really like the main character in the in the movies it's pretty cursed," he adds.
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