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AI Summary
- Ari Aster explores how growing up pre-internet shaped his films' examination of how external forces influence human psychology and trauma
- Aster uses horror, farcical comedy, and Western genre elements to investigate themes of trauma, nostalgia, anxiety, and humanity across Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, and Eddington
- He discusses influences from his poet mother and jazz drummer father, and cites Albert Brooks as a major creative influence
Guests on This Episode
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Ari Aster
2 podcast appearances