Esther Zuckerman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The fuck is this?
It doesn't mean anything.
And I think, like, you know, it's... You want some level of, like, tactility.
You want a level of, like, time and place in that specificity.
A movie I love, which I will continue defending for the rest of my fucking life...
is materialist, which I think has been so wildly misunderstood.
David is making the rudest face a person could possibly make.
I don't like that move.
I know you don't.
You've made that very, very clear to me.
But I think materialist is... I like materialist.
Yeah, we did.
We sure did.
And David is making a face that says, don't talk to me ever again.
But I feel Materialist is, with like a pitch black heart and a real cynicism, more attempting a movie on this kind of wavelength than a proper rom-com.
It is.
I think so much of the hyper negative response to Materialist, which I fully understand is a very acquired taste movie that's not going to work for most people, is that it felt like A24 successfully marketed to people, we're bringing the rom-com back.
And people were so ready to just see a fun love triangle movie.
And then it was this kind of movie digging into is all of dating bullshit, which then made people feel like you offered me a cookie and then like threw acid in my face.
McConaughey did a lot of damage.