Episode 64: Barbarian (2022)

Spoilers! We extra recommend you watch this movie before you listen.

Content warning: discussions of sexual assault.

We attempt to unpeel the layers of this tight and witty horror flick, which plasters together themes of internalized patriarchy, gentrification, Freudian subjectivity, seeing through the lens of capital, and how a legacy like Reagan’s lives on after he dies.

We forgot to rate the film during recording, so here are our ratings:

RATINGS CONTAIN SPOILERS 

Barto: 5 out of 5 hairy bottles of milk

Rabbit: a tape measure pulled as far as it’ll go, that moment before it snaps back

Charlie: Rome