Vinson Cunningham

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230 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

There you go.

Just, like, confused by American bloodlust and dynamism.

But also, as we see throughout the poem, we kind of come to understand that the alien overlords are also kind of softly authoritarian.

And he's, like, sort of also attracted this alien to, I don't know, some, like, sort of charisma of the barbaric Americans or something like that.

And...

We get to see through this film too.

You know, there is this moment when the, I don't know, slight spoiler.

There's a moment when the tapes are finally released and there is a newscaster who is seeing them concurrently with them being shown to people on television.

And she's kind of,

almost crying and she's saying it just like this just calls into question our place and you can tell she means this existentially and like what is a human being and what are they for but also as they show these scenes of like you know alien aliens being whatever like operated upon or like proto waterboarded or whatever you know what is our place like what what

What are we?

That we would do this, too.

You know, so there's all these... I think that question comes so much to the fore in this film that it overrides, and I think purposely, any human drama.

Which is, to me, plays against the Spielbergian thing.

I don't think it's ever trying to make us cry or weep or feel for a human being.

Or even...

The aliens really.

It's a thought experiment where the existence of these beings and their sort of the unmasking of this fact, I don't know, creates this grand like counterfactual.

So I was kind of riveted by that.

I thought it was really funny.

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