So, I tell you what is wrong with me today. Someone slighted Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance by saying that it lacked drama. And before I say, that’s because it is a mixture of horror/sci fi genre, to say the least, and not bally drama, you twit. Let me answer the question that is on everyone’s lips, all five of you, open bracket – my listener numbers are going up – close bracket how the hell do I watch movies in Limbo, hi? Well, I may be the living dead but that doesn’t keep me from keeping up with all the cool kids on the cultural block. I have my means. Let’s leave it at that. Here’s a question for you that I just plucked out of the ether. When you die do you know everything all of a sudden and for the end of time? Seeing as my parents are dead, do they know every thought in my head, and see everything that I do, all the banal and all the dirty? Are they committed to watching or did they switch off years ago, like when they died, thinking, I’m done with the lot o’ y’uns? Anyway….yes…The Substance, I get it. It is too long, back and forth, haven’t we seen this scene before? But in response to the ‘drama’ quip. It is an allegorical body horror sci fi film about the trap of the female fear of aging. Throw in the fact that it is also a satirical comedy indulging in caricature and there you have your reasons for not getting into the drama between the two central characters. Indeed Fritz Lang, when he was making his genre-hopping films about MOB RULE or ABUSE OF POWER he was critiqued for his actors being wooden when in fact the focus was on the underlying meaning and not the drama. And what’s wrong with bad acting? When you live in a pantomime, what is the point of emoting and who’s watching anyway? I love all those distanciation techniques. Sometimes one doesn’t want to feel EVERYTHING. Isn’t that a bit too co-dependent? Give me your shit…lean on me….I love it…but oh no….I hate it…Or something….yeah man, people actually criticized Fritz Lang.Our first letter is from Terry from Glasgow Circa 1999 who says that he has Diogenes Syndrome, where he is oblivious to living in his own filth, squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, lack of shame, and self-isolation, because get this, he doesn’t give a fuck. Some call it a disease but he prefers to say pah to pathology and admit that he is one hell of a lazy bastard. But now he is worried because one day, a zombie from 2000 000 AD popped up from under the squalor and offered to bring him back to a time before electric hand-held blenders, to show him all the lovely things from pre-historic times when life was all about sex, family, hunting food, keeping warm and absolutely nothing else, and certainly not pure filth. The air was sweet, if you didn’t mind the lack of deodorant. So Terry is afraid. What can I do? And our second letter is from Pablo, an idealistic priest on an island off the coast of the insane, but not stupidity, circa 2030 who has a crisis of faith when confronted with the realization that the advancement in AI is like modernism’s end goal….ie….get rid of people and the world is perfect. So, he killed everyone and even though humanity is now sublime, and no longer excretes, apart from the dead bodies littering the streets, turning to mush, he is frustrated as he has lost his sense of smell and all the roses are dead, because nature is becoming suicidal. What can I do, he asks? REFERENCESCAROL MURPHY -https://www.instagram.com/thevigilantecannibalnun/THE BODY & BLOOD – https://www.thebodyandblood.co.ukGHOULS ON FILM - https://www.ghoulsonfilmbelfast.comDANTE’S INFERNO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)KENNY EVERETT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_EverettTHREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Feet_High_and_RisingCHARLIE BROWN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_BrownSTIG OF THE DUMP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_of_the_DumpTHE MUPPETS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MuppetsCHAUCER – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_ChaucerWULVER - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulver

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