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Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

27 Dec 2023 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective

“The Z one — I don’t know if watching it would hold up well, but part of it is this story about killers scaling a fence, and we should rewatch it and see.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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Recorded
27 Dec 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…In Another Country is another pick, Korean and French juxtaposed. World War Z you say was surprised how serious and deeply politically incorrect it is, including on third-rail issues such as immigration, ethnic conflict, songs of peace, the Middle East. You also mentioned The Attack, Lebanese and Israeli in its sources. That’s an incredible film, The Attack. The Z one — I don’t know if watching it would hold up well, but part of it is this story about killers scaling a fence, and we should rewatch it and see. The film was willing to take chances. I suspect a lot of it doesn’t hold up, but fundamentally creative, and I’m for that kind of effort. The Act of Killing, a documentary with interviews with Indonesian gangsters and murderers from the ’65 pogroms.…

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