Ep. 54: The Whale
Cinema of Meaning
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The Story of Charlie and Liz
Marion: The kind of struggle that Charlie goes through is that it also very much affects the relations with the people around him. There's a tension there in how you what it means to help another person and that also I think kind of connects to some other thematic issues here like Ellie ends up accidentally helping Thomas and the way Charlie actually ends up hurting Ellie and her mother or his ex partner to some extent. For such a restrained movie in terms of location and story the soundtrack is still very heavy says Marion.
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