Episode 30: Theodicy Speedrun

Details, credits, errata: This week we watched Darren Aronofksy’s 2017 horror film mother!, the baby-eatingest Bible allegory in all the land. It was great? One error: Sam said Téa Leoni when he meant Marisa Tomei; he is forever making this mistake despite having met Marisa Tomei a few times and had pleasant conversations with her. He apologizes to Mss. Tomei and Leoni, who are, we want to emphasize, different people.We mention a few different articles for your reading delectation; here’s the oral history of Requiem for a Dream Sam mentions, and here’s Alissa’s great piece about mother! in Vox.Our header image is Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s 1573 painting Primavera, of a woman who represents spring, made out of fruit, made publicly available though Wikipedia Commons. Our theme song is Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5’s Muskrat Ramble, made freely available by the Boston Public Library and audio engineering shop George Blood, LP through the Internet Archive. Both it and the image of Primavera are used with our thanks. mother! is copyright 2017 Protozoa Pictures. Brief audio excerpts are used herein for purposes of review and no other copyright is intended or implied. All other material is copyright 2021 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yammpod.substack.com