It's an anti behavioral genetics film. It's an anti skenarian maybe. Well horror movies tend to take the other side of it, which is there's many movies to theme that somebody has the dark due to genetic due to who the parents really are is evil. But these are very thematically connected. I don't think Cohen Brothers movies and Sullivan's Travels, which I mentioned last week, but they're both about writers in a different way. In one case, Sullivan's Travels a director who live fairly privileged lives and want to make art for people who are down and out. He said he wants this picture to be a document. I want to hold a mirror up to life
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.
Links
[all movie links are to imdb.com]
- Paul's Top 5
- Tamler's Top 5
- David's Top 5
Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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