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The Lives of Others (#18)
Mark and Cory discuss The Lives of Others, a modern classic about Stasi surveillance in 1980s East Germany. They start off talking about how to cope with a terrible dictatorship and how the film is about the power of art. However, they quickly get sidetracked with some suspicious behaviour of the Stasi officers including keeping bottles of tomato sauce in the sink and drawing floorplans of flats a little too quickly.
(A note of caution: this episode does contain discussion of themes including suicide and sexual assault where this is relevant to the film's plot.)
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