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Still from Buoyancy (2019), dir. Rodd Rathjen.
BAIT, BUOYANCY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
Kill Your Darlings
DigitalAugust 2019
By Olivia J. Bennett
“Through the journeys of their protagonists, these films offer a contemporary reevaluation of what it means to teach a man to fish. [Given its flimsy relationship to present reality, the proverb’s enduring ubiquity speaks more to those who profit from the perpetuation of libertarian myths. Together, Bait and Buoyancy expose it for what it truly is: an illusion.]”