Frailty + Where the Green Ants Dream

Episode Notes

Absurd beliefs disrupt society. Bill Paxton’s Frailty as a truly bizarre piece of 20001 filmmaking. What sets Frailty apart from everything that was coming out at the time. Religion obviously hurt Michael as a child. Who’s perspective is it, and does the film believe what its saying? The era of the twist further frays the possible reads of the plot. True Detective head cannon. Werner Herzog brings the strange docufeature Where the Green Ants Dream. Fake story, real activism. Or real story, fake actors? Fake acting, real activists? A more curious take on the previously discussed corporate destruction template.

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Frailty

Released: November 17, 2001
Runtime: 100 min | IMDB | Wikipedia

Director: Bill Paxton
Writer: Brent Hanley
Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe

A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed 'demons'.

Where the Green Ants Dream

Released: August 31, 1984
Runtime: 100 min | IMDB | Wikipedia

Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Werner Herzog, Bob Ellis
Starring: Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.