Fun Box Monster Podcast #92 Plutonium Baby (1987)

Every generation there comes a movie that is so transformational to the very fabric of society that it is hard to step back and see it as simply a film. Plutonium Baby is such a film. Although it has been seen by only a handful of people, Plutonium Baby has been called the greatest film of the twentieth century. The scene of Billy eating a whole trout by the pond has been hailed as a possible cure for arthritis. The forty minutes of walking through New York with no purpose, motivation, or plot has been seen by some as a potent commentary on the bleak loneliness of city life.  Any philistine could see the hidden meaning of the scene where Danny and his adopted mother have a mumbling conversation about nothing in half-built aerobics studio as a poignant commentary on what lays beneath society's carefully built facade, but did you ever think about of how the inclusion of the birdcage in her kitchen during the pulse-pounding five minute grocery unpacking scene was a clear insight into the mental prison she had built for herself by adopting Danny, the child she never expected to have? Not to mention her loveless marriage? On a very special episode of The Fun Box Monster Podcast, Tristan and Matt will examine both the cultural and political impact that the film had on our society and very possibly the world at large.