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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '82: Sophie's Choice
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of the Holocaust, death of a child, genocide, concentration camps, Auschwitz, mental illness, antisemitism, fascism, war.
This week’s film has been seared into the collective moviegoing memory based on a single, powerful, heartbreaking scene. And yet that scene is meant solely as the culmination of what is, in all honesty, a soap opera romance. In fact, if it weren’t for some incredible acting, this movie would be pure pulp trash because it actively avoids the point at all turns. It’s...