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Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies
125: Technological Jibber Jabber (Solaris / The Brother From Another Planet)
Season 4, Ep. 26
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We do a bit of noticing of how science fiction makes us FEEL through social science fiction in Solaris (1972, not Clooney) and The Brother From Another Planet.
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