Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” While we cannot know for sure, modern philosophers and hosts of Where Do I Know Them From are fairly certain this phrase was meant to predict the relationship between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and the girlboss feminism movies that came before it. One such movie, Charlie’s Angels (2019) stars Sam Claflin, and thusly must be covered in this week’s episode. Listen this week as we unpack whether a movie about women has an inherent feminist agenda, and as we discuss Sam Claflin’s uncanny ability to play various manifestations of an oppressive patriarchy on the straight white male.
CW: car chase, murder, gun violence, Nazism, crushing, sexism
