Episode #19 – Her and HBO’s True Detective
Episode #19
Join us as we share our thoughts,
criticisms and general reactions to this
year’s Oscar winner for Best Original
Screenplay Her. Very much a topical film
that addresses many “here and now” issues
and technologies (although it’s set in a near
future), Spike Jonez’s film generates a lot
of pathos from its main characters and calls
into question the very nature of relationships.
How are they defined? Refined? Built?
Dismantled? Her seems to have impressed the
That’s A Wrap guys an awful lot.
In our second segment we take a look at HBO’s fascinating police procedural, True Detective. Starring recent Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey and Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, has HBO fashioned a thinking man’s serial-killer police-procedural or an amateurish existential hodgepodge of Wooderson philosophy? Hmm, perhaps both?
Links
The one literary reference must know to appreciate True Detective.
Interview with director Cary Fukunaga.
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