Movie Review: Killing People With Knives

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The whole time, philip is just friaking out. It's almost like the tell tale heartrt,. severybody must be totally noticing every little cue that brandon is just so nonchalantly epresenting. And heis also drinking heavily, which doesn't help. The whole conversation about chickens, strangling, just crowfit chickens. Eh, as ia Comic, you're quite a good shaken straggler. That's a lie. I never strangled a chicken in my life. God, hea, the hole conversation where were talk about having this one incident in pilly's childhood killing chickens to eat. That’s a lie. You definitely consider

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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