Episode Description
MOVIE DISCUSSION:
Shirleon joins Melvin to discuss an offbeat in-world horror comedy called Buffet Infinity! The two discuss the ease of watching a film told by commercials, the mysterious sinkhole, what's actually happening to the missing persons, and the film's allegorical exploration of capitalism, institutions, and cults.
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 20-minutes imagining what kind of movie would have to be made for Shirleon and Melvin to go full pointing-soy-face-"LOOK!", and whether the other would see their fantasy movie. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- Shirleon is "very excited" about Buffet Infinity, and explains why they enjoyed it so much.
- Comparing the prose of Buffet Infinity to a few in-world/found-footage movies, helping to color what to expect.
- How things in media influence, or infect, the real world.
- Melvin reads his Letterboxd review, using it as a jumping-off point for a further discussion on greed, exploitation, and consumption.
- For a movie told through ads, Shirleon reads the ad that convinced her to watch this movie.
- Talking about the "ads", and some of their clever trickery.
- Would we eat that burger?
- Trying to understand the name "Buffet Infinity", if the film is critical of capitalism, and capitalistic overreach.
- Thinking through the abstract third act.
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