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Film Magistery #6: Burn After Reading/Age of Bullsh*t


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In the sixth episode of Film Magistery Dino talks about the abundance of bullshit today around us and Coens' underrated film 'Burn After Reading' (2008), a tongue-in-cheek spy film about some people who know nothing, but pretend to know a lot. It says a lot about the cultural and interpersonal condition of the modern society today.
We ask what bullshit is and why is there so much of it around us.



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References:
Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit, 2005.

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Film Magistery PodcastBy Dino Avdibegovic