Guest host Andrew Johnson joins Ken at the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss Mike Newell’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel. What is the difference between grace and random acts of kindness? Which character reminds Ken of the rock opera Chess? Warning: some profanity in this episode.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - Intro. What is grace?
05:12 - Grace vs. random acts of kindness
07:25 - Class conflict, Puritan work ethic, and deserving success.
12:20 - "Pity the child, but not forever," the problems with economic determinism
17:40 - Miss Havisham and the culture of victimhood
25:00 - The circle of (moral) life and the film’s resolution.
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