Midweek Mention... God's Pocket
About this episode
The crew discusses the film *God's Pocket* and its effectiveness as a character drama.
The crew kicks off Pocket Week with *God's Pocket* and explores whether the film's rough-edged, hyper-local setting works as character drama or just stays grim for grim's sake. What We Covered - Whether this was truly one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final performances/releases - John Slattery directing, plus the Mad Men crossover cast links - The opening funeral framing and backfill structure - Mickey's terrible decision-making spiral (including spending funeral money on a horse) - The film's...
People in this episode
Host: Bad Dads
Topics covered
- film analysis
- character drama
- directing
- performance review
- decision-making
Keywords
- God's Pocket
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- John Slattery
- film review
- character drama
- Mad Men
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: God's Pocket, Mad Men
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- Floods & Flow
- Midweek Mention...Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Pockets & Den of Thieves
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