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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Perfect Blue with Bowen Yang

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the filmography of Satoshi Kon - a thrilling series of funhouse mirrors and puzzlebox narratives that proved what is possible in the animation form. The icon, the legend, the culturista himself Bowen Yang joins us to talk about Kon’s feature debut, the shocking and influential pop-idol thriller PERFECT BLUE. We’re talking about famous “bad girl” transitions in pop history. We’re talking about Digimon villains. We’re talking about obsessive fandoms. And, most crucially, we learn a new piece of Ben lore that involves a famous reality tv star.

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0:00.0

Like Jack with Griffin and David.

0:05.0

Black Jack with Griffin and David

0:09.0

Don't know what to say or to expect.

0:12.0

All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Check.

0:17.0

Well, how do you know that you know that person you were a second ago is the same person you are now?

0:27.0

A continuous dream of memories, given only that we all create illusions within ourselves, saying that we each other have only one fixed

0:34.4

podcast. Great. A identity? What's the word? persona. Okay.

0:39.5

That's a key word. I'll say a lot of the quotes pages things like oh no sure like I love this movie but a lot of the

0:46.2

quotes don't work at a context it's like it's like a frightening humming that's just the

0:51.1

quotes page like here's my favorite dialogue exchange in the movie,

0:54.3

but out of context it means nothing.

0:56.5

I'm really sorry.

0:57.4

Oh no, it's all right.

0:58.6

I think that's the best written exchange in the film, but it only makes sense when you read out that the character name is actor playing rapist.

1:08.0

Oh, and that guy, that character I was like, see, pre-intimacy coordinator, he's doing it right.

1:15.8

He's doing it right.

1:16.8

Right, he's about as good as you can get in the 90s.

1:19.5

Yes, in 90s, Japanese sex film, like know be movie territory. Yeah this always about a lot of things but I think one of the things it is about is a theory I have held true for a long time, which is that acting is inherently

1:36.7

sociopathic, which is not to say that all actors are sociopaths.

1:42.1

I think some are empaths and some are just good at

1:44.4

faking shit but the action itself the process is sociopathic. So

1:50.1

socio and so it's so bizarre when you have a moment like that where someone like

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