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David Ehrlich

David Ehrlich

American film critic and journalist

Jun 28, 2026

46:16
My house is filled with boxes."
46:18
Yeah, I mean, my sense talking to him was that all those things are true, but I do feel like the sociopolitical commentary sprang out of what you were talking about earlier, which is his, like, deep-rooted love for the movies, the early movies in particular, and the movies that were formative for him.
46:34
Where he really sort of sprang to life, uh, which was very convenient for my purposes, was talking about the movie as a expression of the joys of parenting, um, as the act of, you know, talking about a bridge earlier, sort of like the act of, of taking something from one generation, showing it to another.
46:53
Robots acting like humans to teach humans how to stop acting like robots.
46:56
The transference of, of going from consuming everything, as WALL-E's a- done for hundreds of years, to sh- displaying that, to showing that, uh, to someone else, which is a completely revelatory and transformational experience for him.
47:12
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70:52
Yeah.
70:53
Um, but, uh, yeah, that's, that's his latest thing.

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