rant · moment 6 of 24
Watching the Film: Colors, Bugs, and Missing the Extinction Message
from Twerk For Your Supper & The KHive | The Tim Dillon Show #403 · #403
5 min
Tim describes actually watching the film with the crowd, noting the strange racial imagery and how the audience is too mesmerized by colors and insects to register that the movie's ending calls for eliminating a large chunk of humanity.
- Tim describes the two extremes of workplace devotion: people who don't care at all, or people with cult-like dedication to their jobs.
- At the Sphere in Vegas, a friend insisted on giving Tim a full tour of the sound system before they could even get seated.
- The Darren Aronofsky film 'Postcards from Earth' displays different people around the world, then abruptly cuts to black people in Africa picking fruit.
- Tim describes the film's central message: that cities and civilization have destroyed Earth, and the only solution is to get rid of people.
- The Obamas produced a Netflix film called 'Leave the World Behind' about a civil war in America, which Tim finds odd given that an ex-president is producing content about the overthrow of his own government.
- The film contains a creepy line: 'not all of us could return,' raising the question of who gets to survive and who doesn't.
- Nobody watching the film actually understands its premise about extinction because they're too distracted by the bright colors on screen.
- Audience members in their 40s, 50s, and 60s react to insects and hummingbirds like children, pointing and gasping at the visuals rather than engaging with the film's message.
- Women in the theater jump when a spider moves on screen, treating the film like a pure sensory experience rather than a piece of environmental commentary.
Leave the World BehindLas VegasObamasPostcards from EarthSphereDarren Aronofsky