Amartya and Dhruv had been desperately waiting for Spike Lee's latest film to release, only because they wanted an excuse to go back and revisit Akira Kurosawa's incredibly influential 1963 classic, "High and Low."

This episode -- promoted as an extended deep dive into Spike Lee's exasperatingly absurd (mostly in an amusingly bad way) "Highest 2 Lowest" -- is, in actuality, very much an excuse for both Amartya and Dhruv to also wax lyrical about Kurosawa's original.

Listen to the full episode to hear their full spoilerific thoughts on both Kurosawa's original version and Lee's interpretation of it -- and why the 2 (memorable) highs of the latter don't outmatch its (2) many lows.

TIME CODES

Highs & Lows of Film Criticism: [00:00 - 11:09]

For the Impatient Ones: [11:09 - 14:43]

Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low": [14:43 - 56:49]

Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest": [56:49 - 01:39:11]

Outro: [01:39:11 - 01:44:36]

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