Barton Fink - The Coen Brothers Are What to Do

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Barton Fink goes very much against that trend. In a character played by Peter Sellers who ends up being launched into the world of Washington. And he's an he's an idiot. He doesn't know anything. But he says these banal statements to people and he takes them as a genius. So it's a semantics movie. You know where on the one hand is something about language. Like he says stuff. like he's a gardener. The film also more generally suggests that how we project what we want to see into people can be misleading.

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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