{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Philosophy In Film - 097 - Weapons","description":"Episode 97: Weapons Just in time for a Halloween Spooktacular, the gang is back for Season 5 of Philosophy in Film, and the reel\u2019s already spinning! First up in the tray: Zach Cregger\u2019s eerie ensemble horror Weapons (2025), where seventeen schoolchildren vanish at 2:17 a.m., forcing a town to ask: what if the monster isn\u2019t outside, but inside the story? In search of answers, Craig sounds the alarm with Producer\u2019s Notes (8:31) while Alain opens the Beauclair Synopsis (17:23), laying out the tangled threads of characters, each chasing a truth they\u2019re too afraid to face. Chris slips into Philosopher\u2019s Corner (42:55), tracing the film\u2019s vanishings through a dim reflection of screens and silence, where the real horror may be what we\u2019ve grown used to losing. At The Round Table (42:40), the gang wrangles the question: Is Weapons a cautionary mirror or a funhouse for our fears? Later, Reviews (1:10:48) and Mailbag (1:24:41) let our audience testify in the court of shared dread. As always, we reflect on the philosophical and non-philosophical fissures the film fractures open, because in a town where the children vanish, silence becomes just another weapon. \ud83c\udf7b Featured Beer \ud83c\udf7b - Beldame Old World Pilsner by Strange Fellows Brewing (East Vancouver, BC) ","author_name":"Philosophy In Film","author_url":"http:\/\/philinfilm.libsyn.com\/website","html":"