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Red Rooms (Plante 2023)
Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of the 2023 film Red Rooms. Ostensibly this is a film about the dark web phenomemon of the titular red rooms. Oddly, the film did not actually offer any insight into red rooms. This film is different, and we definitely appreciate that. We just wish it offered something, anything!, interesting in terms of perspective or thoughts on the phenomenon it purports to address. We enjoyed it, learned nothing from it, but still enjoyed it.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Red Rooms, this film
It Comes at Night (Shults 2017)
TOPIC INDEX – Red Rooms (Plante 2023) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
5:15 – Film discussion begins
5:30 – overall thoughts on the film
7:15 – SPOILERS section begins
10:30 – spoilers for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
12:30 – opening sequence
13:30 – alignment
19:15 – physical arrangement of criminal justice
20:00 – Kelly-Anne and Clementine character arcs
50:00 – no red rooms in Red Rooms
1:06:30 – Untraceable (premise spoilers)
1:07:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
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