Episode 5. Delusion (Carl Colpaert, 1991)

Subtitle: These podcasts are made for talkin’

For this episode, we must offer our profuse thanks to Delusion’s director, Carl Colpaert; the film’s director of photography, Geza Sinkovics; and the film’s editor, Mark Allan Kaplan, for answering our questions about this motion picture.

Topics discussed in this episode include: the work of the film’s personnel; the production of Delusion, and its absence on digital home video formats; Delusion’s confluence of road movie, neo-noir and Western; the extent to which Delusion may be considered a feminist film; Delusion as a European art movie set in the American West; the theme of transference of identity (and its connection to William Friedkin’s work); the appropriateness of the word ‘floozy’; Robert Ardrey’s The Territorial Imperative; Delusion’s association with the ‘yuppie in peril’ film; the extent to which George’s embezzlement may be considered morally just (or otherwise); and Peter’s itchy pants.