The Social Network - which I've been planning to make a film in focus since June - is a movie I've covered a couple times before, first in a review/discussion disguised as a Facebook page and later as a visual tribute alternating between the film's images of paper and plastic as methods of communication. This time I take a more straightforward approach and reflect on the film's triple status: as a document of the early 2000s when Facebook was born, as a reflection of the turn-of-the-decade when the film was released, and as an artifact explored in today's context when Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have become deeply entangled in our political and cultural landscape.
Speaking of politics and culture, I've been waiting a couple weeks until I could devote an entire "other topics" section to the backlash against Angela Nagle, author of the popular but controversial Kill All Normies, who recently wrote an essay attacking the left's position on open borders. I think both her approach and the reaction to her speak of a growing rift on the left, a phenomenon I've already begun to explore on previous episodes. I've had a lot to say about this on Twitter and hopefully here I'm able to organize various responses into a cohesive analysis of what's going on, with Nagle and with the left and the issue of immigration more broadly.
This podcast also concludes the exploration of my "4 Ways to Watch Fire Walk With Me" study by examining that film in relation to a dozen Twin Peaks episodes, continues a conversation with listeners about Sherilyn Fenn's and Audrey Horne's on/offscreen stories in The Return, and follows up my two-part review of the Soviet War and Peace by dipping into the archive for my review of the Hollywood adaptation, directed by King Vidor and starring Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, and Henry Fonda.
Line-up for Episode 48
INTRO
WEEKLY UPDATE/recent posts: added Christmas highlight to the sidebar
WEEKLY UPDATE/work in progress: Twin Peaks blu-ray features & John Thorne interview for podcasts
TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS: Fire Walk With Me as Twin Peaks episode
FILM IN FOCUS: The Social Network
OTHER TOPICS: Controversy over Angela Nagle's "The Left Case Against Open Borders", podcast recommendation
LISTENER FEEDBACK: LeftTube recommendations, the RR counter scene, Leland/Bob, Teresa's ring, the Pink Room & the Red Room, Twin Peaks truckers, the aesthetics & ideology of Disney
OPENING THE ARCHIVE: War and Peace
OUTRO
WEEKLY UPDATE/recent posts: added Christmas highlight to the sidebar
WEEKLY UPDATE/work in progress: Twin Peaks blu-ray features & John Thorne interview for podcasts
TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS: Fire Walk With Me as Twin Peaks episode
FILM IN FOCUS: The Social Network
OTHER TOPICS: Controversy over Angela Nagle's "The Left Case Against Open Borders", podcast recommendation
LISTENER FEEDBACK: LeftTube recommendations, the RR counter scene, Leland/Bob, Teresa's ring, the Pink Room & the Red Room, Twin Peaks truckers, the aesthetics & ideology of Disney
OPENING THE ARCHIVE: War and Peace
OUTRO
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