Episode #19
“...what you would call ‘an atmosphere’...”
with guest film crit hulk
“Inherent vice” in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can’t avoid…eggs break…chocolate melts…glass shatters…and our host—hermetically sealed inside a dark screening room and kinda-sorta ruminating on the End Times when he’d much rather be watching movies—wonders what that means when applied to global contagions…
And so it is with today’s guest that he teams up to study a particularly difficult and ominous scene in Inherent Vice (“a film that wafts through itself,” according to said guest) during what is shaping up to be a particularly difficult and ominous time, one in which the term “inherent vice” has taken on a far, far darker meaning than before.
About the Guest
FILM CRIT HULK
Film Crit Hulk is the pseudonymous pen name of an essayist who has written for Polygon, Observer, Vulture Verge, Entertainment Weekly, the New Yorker, Playboy, and Thrilllist. He tends to write long-form articles about semiotics, dramatic function, and inter-sectional cinema..