189. Childhood Cancelled: Insect Animations

This week, we shake up the format by discussing three animated films about insects of different kinds: Antz, A Bug's Life, and Bee Movie. For too long, people have been uncritically absorbing these cute movies about little critters and their adventures without asking, "am I indoctrinating my kids with the good propaganda or the bad propaganda here?"With the unshakeable confidence of guys who haven't read Hobbes, Rousseau or Marx, but have read at least 100,000 posts about the Labour Party over the past four years, Film Chat peels back all the harmless gags about having 1 million siblings and being a bee and whatnot to find some sort of implicit social commentary beneath. Listen in for the definitive take on whether Antz depicts a worker's revolution, whether A Bug's Life is a fable of class struggle, and whether it's possible to discern any sense at all in the Seinfeldian fever dream that is Bee Movie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.