Critical Mess

Season 3 Episode 2: Big Eyes


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What big eyes you have, Margaret D. H. Keane! Aimee and Annie jump back in time to the 1960s as Tim Burton attempts to explain how women get involved in coercive relationships in 2014's Big Eyes. Based on the life of a painter whose husband takes credit for her work, we chat about art, fraud, integrity, criticism, Walter Benjamin and Rumpelstilstkin. But is Burton really the best person to tell this story of plagiarism and domestic abuse? Probably not, hey.
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Critical MessBy Aimee Knight & Annie Waters