28 Days Later with David Rees
Blank Check with Griffin & David
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Day of the Triffids - Isn't It a Paranoid Story?
The opening of Day of the Triffids opens with a guy in the hospital waking up being like, what the fuck is going on? So he does Garland shouts that out. The way Garland puts it that I feel like we'll resonate with you guys the most is this was just a paranoid story coming out of a paranoid time. Lots of stuff was happening in this country that felt like the right kind of social subtext or commentary that you could put in a science fiction films. Danny was particularly interested in the issues that had to do with social rage, the increase of rage in our society.
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