rant · moment 8 of 15
Kids Today, Business Fetishism, and The Florida Project
from It's A Small World After All · #79
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minTim rants about young people who say they "like business" without any real experience, then discusses the new Louis C.K.-directed film The Florida Project and Woody Allen's Manhattan, addressing whether you can separate art from the artist.
- 24:09Kids today say they like business, which really just means their parents are rich and they went skiing.
- 24:35There's no middle ground anymore—you can't do the kind of career path that previous generations had.
- 24:46Tim announces a private screening for The Florida Project, calling it his father's lowest movie.
- 25:00The film is good despite the scandal—it's complicated and ambiguous, not trying to be confusing.
- 25:13The Florida Project is really about a father trying to become a dad at the last minute after giving his kids everything.
- 25:33Manhattan contains problematic themes but they're heavily addressed by the filmmakers, not endorsed.
- 26:05The challenge is separating the art from the artist when the artist is controversial.