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Rat Race (w/ Thalia Sablon)

Rat Race (w/ Thalia Sablon)

FromMovies vs. Capitalism


Rat Race (w/ Thalia Sablon)

FromMovies vs. Capitalism

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Length:
102 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Rivka and Frank are joined by playwright Thalia Sablon for a conversation about the wild 2001 screwball comedy Rat Race. They discuss how the film's celebrity-packed cast represents a dying culture, the shockingly anti-capitalist character arcs, and how the movie may have been an inspiration for Squid Game. 
Thalia Sablon - Website

For next week’s movie, we’ll be watching the 2009 documentary Capitalism: A Love Story.
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Artwork by Rufus Paisley | Theme song by JustBen
Released:
Jun 19, 2024
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Podcast episode

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A movie-rewatch podcast that explores the politics of your favorite films through an anti-capitalist lens. Each episode, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by a special guest for an irreverent yet critical discussion about a film and how it’s *obviously* a scathing indictment of late-stage capitalism. Fight Club? That’s about the degradation of modern consumerism. Office Space? A stark depiction of worker alienation. Antz? An animated kids movie about the military-industrial complex. Movies vs. Capitalism examines the crucial intersection between pop culture and politics — an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative, anti-imperialist analysis of your favorite talking pictures. It’s a middle finger to our rotting institutions and ruling-class proprietors who are slowly driving the human race into extinction. But, like, in a fun way ;)