I Love the Farrowl Movies, Stranger Than Fiction

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I love the Farrowl movies. Well, you know, I'd love to talk about step brothers or anchor man or talladig and there's no philosophy in it. On the other hand, he has a movie, Stranger than Fiction. You'd be forgiven for not seeing it. It wasn't that big. But the idea which I found very compelling is he's this normal guy and he hears a voice. And the voice is of somebody narrating his life. And then he comes to discover that he is himself a fictional character. The whole point of it is that it's a reality show. He hasn't lost his agency. There's a great sci-fi book called

Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic.

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