PatLabor 2: The Movie (1993) w/ Kevin Fox | Ep. 56

Podcast: Bang-Bang Podcast · Van and Lyle are Bang-Bang

Opublikowano: 2026-01-22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com We’re joined by filmmaker and returning guest Kevin Fox to discuss Mamoru Oshii’s Patlabor 2, a film that masquerades as a techno-thriller before revealing itself as a bleak meditation on peace not as the absence of war, but as its managed disappearance from view. The opening scene sets the tone: A UN-led intervention force wielding advanced technology against a low-tech but effective guerrilla resistance. It’s a distant, managed conflict, war as something conducted elsewhere, on the periphery, in the name o...