The Price of Believing You’re Owed Something
Someone shared with me that conspiracy theories function as economic systems which people use when they fail to track financial…
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Cost of Being Revolutionary When Revolution Pays Nothing
The forty-second money discussion appears in "Nouvelle Vague" between the characters. Jean-Luc Godard's producer is running through numbers, and the…
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The Borrowed House and the Woman Who Couldn’t Afford to Leave It
There's a moment early in Hedda when our protagonist fingers the key around her neck, the one that unlocks her…
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The Going Rate for Genius
There's a moment early in Blue Moon when Lorenz Hart orders another drink at Sardi's and you watch the bartender's…
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Labour of Remembering: Who Pays When the State Won’t
The mechanic identifies the familiar squeaking noise which he has encountered multiple times. Prosthetic leg, specific gait, voice on the…
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Currency to Escape
There's a moment early in Kiss of the Spider Woman where Molina adjusts a strand of beads hanging from his…
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The Revolution Has a Budget Problem
Somewhere around the third bank heist in Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling One Battle After Another, I found myself wondering who…
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Wax Cylinders and the Things We Extract
The History of Sound shows David and Lionel recording music in their neighbor's home kitchen while their recording equipment transforms…
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Seventeen Empty Beds
Seventeen children go missing in one night. The first thing a town does, apparently, is hold a meeting. Not search…
