Wesley Morris

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836 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Jun

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The Bill Simmons Podcast · Why Giannis Won’t Be a Knick, UFC’s Latest Boom, the Movie Theater Renaissance, Six Stages of Sean Penn, and ‘One Battle After Another’ With Ariel Helwani and Wesley Morris · 8 Oct 2025 podcast

And I also wonder...

this is the first movie that he's made in the present.

Yeah.

In, in a long time.

And I, I think punch drunk love might be the, by the last bit might be the last movie he set in the present.

And I, interesting.

You're right.

And I, I, I don't know what like picking up and dropping off the kids looks like for him.

Um,

But, you know, being in some part of Los Angeles on a somewhat regular basis, you're just kind of like, this is a tragedy.

There's like tragedy happening everywhere for no reason other than greed, selfishness, blindness.

Like what, how, what is that connected to?

So this man is thinking systemically.

These systemic problems have been with us for a long time.

And...

I have never faulted his films for not paying attention to the present.

Although I always get a little nervous when movies want to spend all their time in the past, because it means you were scared of what's happening now.

This is a movie that is not afraid.

And to the, to the, with respect to like the, like the really important, fascinating, like persuasive conversations happening around the, the, the many, many black women in this movie are,

I think that it is trying to start something and acknowledge that something is happening without necessarily caring about getting anything right, if that makes sense.

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