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Content warning: Depictions of domestic violence and suicide. THE GETAWAY follows a pretty conventional structure. Depending on how you look at it, that might flatten it a little bit or it might make its jagged edges a little more interesting! Either way, it’s worth examining as Sam Peckinpah’s most commercially successful movie – and another weird example of his incisive take on toxic masculinity as told through the conceit of a high-stakes heist. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Love Theme" by Quincy Jones from the THE GETAWAY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 228: THE GETAWAY (1972) 3:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:42 - THE GETAWAY and Peckinpah’s career-long obsessions 14:05 - The intro sequence 22:47 - A movie told in implied chapters 27:45 - The Cuckening of Harold