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Ep. 708 - Knock at the Cabin

🕑 Added 2023-02-07 13:00:05 +0000 UTC

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Jesper

SPOILERS BELOW FOR KNOCK AT THE CABIN! I haven't listened to the Spoiler-review yet of the episode but just wanted to chime in my take before hearing your take. Now I haven't heard about the book before so I have no context but this film but for me this was sort of a metaphor for climate change and how we are handling it. We have a privileged part of society (yes I realize that calling a gay couple being parents privileged is stretching it but compared to most gay people in the world they definitely are) being asked to give up something so the rest of the world can continue living. By not giving up something they are dooming everyone else, mainly people less well off, to certain death and misery. Which is what we are doing in the west by not acting decisively against climate change but instead no believing that it will have any real effect and if it does then those people aren't worth saving anyway. The intruders killing themselves one by one represent different societies (pacific islanders for example) that will take the hit from us doing nothing until everyone are effected when it's to late. Based on that reading I thought the message was pretty effective and spoke to me.

Lane Jacobson

I live in a very small community of 3,000 or so people but we have a really amazing local four screen theater (which shall remain unnamed!). They do an awesome job and usually have first run blockbusters playing alongside indie & foreign films. We recently had Eo, are currently showing Living and also are rescreening Everything Everywhere All at Once. Within the last year or two (adjusted for Covid time!) they launched a club membership which comes with some benefits like free screenings of certain movies, concession discounts, and also a free upgrade to 'premium seating' which they installed when they launched this club membership. The seats are cushy and they're located in the best spots of the theater - but these are small rooms (the smallest seating about 40 and the largest maybe 150) and it is PAINFUL watching them try to enforce the upgraded seating or try to explain it to folks who are unfamiliar with how it works. Since we're in such a small town, the theater usually only has a handful of people in it and it is so awkward watching them tell someone they have to move out of the premium seating, seeing that person look around the room at the four other people in the entire theater, give a big sigh and then move to a row of standard seating. I agree that enforcement of the tiered seating is going to be tough - but my local theater doesn't have assigned seating at all which I think leads to a lot of the confusion, so maybe the AMC regulars will already (for the most part) be used to just sitting in their assigned seats?