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In Minute 77 of The Whole Shebang, we finish looking at Arthur and Mandy’s confrontation about Arthur hearing the rest of the story of the fall of Brian Slade, take a brief silly detour into talking about goths’ mycological method of reproduction, Arthur’s ambivalence about his glam fandom in the 1984 period and how the movie expertly uses the two time periods to reveal details of the characters, the power of nostalgia, its inherent melancholy, and how it is the engine at the center of Velvet Goldmine, how we can’t trust Arthur’s perceptions of 1984 and how Arthur’s grim view of the world could have to do with his finally growing up, how Arthur’s attitude about the Brian Slade story has taken a complete 180 from disdain to fascination, Mandy’s complex opinion of Curt as an empty symbol and Arthur’s reaction to this, and Mandy’s apparent mood ring!
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