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Directed by Todd Solondz
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“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
SPOILERS FOR:
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz 1995)
Happiness (Solondz 1998)
FILMS MENTIONED WITHOUT SPOILERS:
Me and You and Everything You Know (July 2005)
Martyrs (Laugier 2008)
Proxy (Parker 2013)
Rememory (Palansky 2017)
Hereditary (Aster 2018)
Ghostland! (Laugier 2018)
SPOILERS BELOW
TOPIC INDEX – Wiener-Dog (Solondz 2016) –
1:26 – Laura’s choice
4:18 – Connection to Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz 1995)
6:00 – Discussion of the film begins
8:48 – Dawn Wiener played by Greta Gerwig
11:35 – The film’s title
13:54 – First sociological connection; U.S. values, social context, and life choices.
14:43 – Weiner dog’s agency
16:35 – Meta leash stomping
19:25 – Cancer full circle
21:37 – A darker read
23:54 – Character Continuum
28:20 – Loneliness
29:49 – A new Wiener Dog theory emerges
30:47 – Intermission
34:18 – Film Students
37:26 – Guess Laura’s nickname for Marshall. Tweet at us! We’ll send you a super cool, unique, prize if you get it right!
38:00 – Schmerz
39:53 – Wiener dog and the meaning of life.
42:19 – Wiener-dog lives on
43:33 – Fantasy and film students
44:34 – Meta commentary on film school by Solondz?
45:37 – Todd Solondz, filmmaking, and “What if, then what?”
48:46 – Gender and Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz 1995)?
50:56 – Absence of sexuality
55:47 – Structure, culture, and individual experiences of joy in Wiener-Dog (Solondz 2016)
58:48 – Individual, dyad, tryad, group
59:55 – An apology and some sociology (Goffman’s master status as well as Simmel on shift from dyad to tryad and intersubjectivity vs folie a deux)
1:05:07 – Ritzer’s McDonaldization and Disney (see also Eco and Baudrillard for sociological commentary on Disney theme parks)
1:11:55 – Does Wiener-dog meet its own standards?
1:15:31 – Drugs, joy, and death
1:18:43 – Overall evaluation of the film
1:19:05 – Same universe as Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz 1995)
1:22:25 – Miranda July
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