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Woman of the Hour (Kendrick 2023)
We have great appreciation of Anna Kendrick as a talent. And this film does have a very rare original take on the serial killer genre, unfortunately for us it did not coalesce into a meaningful film watching experience. The film is exactly the sum of its parts and it landed on us accordingly. Our guess is that in trying to avoid making problematic choices, which we support, Kendrick relegated her film to being one of cromulence. We hope she keeps working behind the camera as well as in front.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Very minor spoilers for
Halloween (Carpenter 1979)
TOPIC INDEX – Woman of the Hour (Kendrick 2023) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:45 – Film discussion begins
2:45 – wallpaper
6:00 – SPOILERS section begins
39:00 – alignment and allegiance within the film
41:00 – why the disconnect
47:00 – victim blaming as negotiated read
50:15 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
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“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
Episode 136
Keywords
sociology, horror, killing, serial killer, 1970s, glamorization, game show, dating, police failure, believe women, believe victims, Anna Kendrick, woman director, woman writer, victim blaming,