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Ep. 51: The Fabelmans

Cinema of Meaning

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Steven Spielberg's Theatrics

I didn't know that much context going into it besides Steven Spielberg making a movie kind of about himself vaguely. I was kind of surprised to learn listening to interviews and stuff about this, how much of it actually is directly kind of ripped from his life. There's pieces of this movie that felt almost like something out of a Cohen Brothers film where he tips into this like goofy sort of territory in a way that I found really delightful but also which I think I wasn't expecting going in.

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