Episode 1397 - Ben Foster
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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Emancipation
I thought the performance was great. The story's great. I love the way that you managed a guy as he gets older, carrying not only the trauma memories, but the memories of what he had to do to survive. And then ultimately not being able to live with that in terms of stopping fighting. So many survivors of, and this can apply to soldiers. Sure. Don't want to talk about it. It's too much. You're trying to compartmentalize. And you can't. You can't put trauma away. You can stuff it, but it's going to pop out somewhere else. Yeah. This is him trying to fight by forgetting. And he can't.
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