The Best Movie of the Year

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There were times where he just seemed like he was so damaged that he could barely put his sentence together and other time and then like 30 seconds later he'll be kind of slick. There's a there's definitely a lot that you could think is going on in his mind it's very much told from his perspective but even that is not if if it's told from his viewpoint. The resolution of all of that fizzled into both nothing politically and in that sense of controversy but also just I was happy for the filmmaker yeah.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.