2024-02-24
31 分钟The New York Times’s film critic Alissa Wilkinson has a theory about movies: They’re all about relationships. No matter how big the action, the suspense and tension we experience when watching a film is often really about the feelings between the characters. But romantic relationships often fall back on old tropes, like the long-suffering wife of an ex-cop who can’t resist that one last, risky case. (We all know her; she leaves teary voice messages urging him to be safe.) Some of this year’s Oscar-nominated films give us fresher portraits of love. Alissa and our host, Anna Martin, discuss the relationships that defy convention or easy definition, and push us to reconsider how we think about human connection, in three of those movies: “Poor Things,” “Maestro” and “Past Lives.”
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I was at a new friend's apartment not too long ago where I told her that I haven't spoken to my father in almost four years.
She turned to me and said, I feel so sorry for him.
I froze, naturally, because people normally say that they feel sorry for me when I bring up my dad.
Then she said, he's missing out on how special you are with love.
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From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is modern love.
And you might have noticed we're having a little fun on the show this week.
On Wednesday, I talked to my colleague Estad Herndon about how romance and politics collide on the election beat.
And today we're gonna hear from someone with, I think, the most fun job at the entire New York Times.
Besides podcast host.
That job is movie critic.
Of course.
On modern love, we think a lot about how love is portrayed in print and in sound.
But Alyssa Wilkinson spends her time looking at love on the big screen.
According to her, in almost all films, relationships drive the action.