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Her - Manic Pixie Digital Girl
Send us a Question! PATREON MOVIE DISCUSSION: This movie was selected by our Patreon Supporters over at the Cinematic Doctrine Patreon. Support as little as $3 a month and have your voice heard! Kathryn joins Melvin to discuss our latest Patreon-picked movie; Her! The two discuss the ins-and-outs of digital romance, modern sexuality, and so much more all in a post Chat-GPT world! Topics: (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 26-minutes discussing disc rot, media preservation, and the difficulty of preserving media in general all because Melvin found on his copy of On Golden Pond a Documentary special-feature he can't find any record of online, either on Wikipedia, IMDB, or YouTube. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)Melvin & Kathryn both kick things off with some positives. With that out of the way... the cat's out of the bag: neither Melvin nor Kathryn liked Her.Melvin, "[Her] is wrapped up in a visually pleasing film with performers who are very impressive and I find that that might actually be distracting from the flaws of the film."Theo is codependent, and Sam is an enabler.Melvin & Kathryn take turns explaining things they didn't like while using examples from other movies they feel better represent those ideas.Melvin felt the technology in the film was kind of terrible.Theo is uncomfortable with the idea that a woman would have a desire conflicting with his own.Kathryn, "[Theo] has a "pornified" style of relating to women."Discussing the initial sexual encounter with Sam & the "surrogate sex" scene.Melvin, "[Theo] is not capable of having a safe sexual encounter with this born-beautiful-yesterday-manic-pixie-dream-girl."Recommendations: You know we're cooked when middle class normalities are trending by Ashley Embers (YouTube)Possibly in Michigan (1983) (Short Film)Support the show Support on Patreon for Unique Perks! Early access to uncut episodes Vote on a movie/show we review One-time reward of two Cinematic Doctrine Stickers & Pins Social Links: Threads Website Instagram Letterboxd Facebook Group
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