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Ep. 50: Tár

Cinema of Meaning

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I Think the Portrayal of the Student Is a Little Bit of a Caricature

I think the portrayal of the student is almost tips into that realm of caricature and I agree with what you're saying in that that scene is not actually a dialogue on the subject. It's more so in how that scene position is positioned within the the movie as a whole and what the film as a whole is saying to other people. People taking that clip from that movie out of context and like putting it online like it's you know here's why cancel culture is is bad which to me is just a hilariously ironic misreading of that scene. Going in knowing nothing you're not immediately thinking oh this is a terrible person who should be canceled, says director Todd Fields. The way she's

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