Episode 285 – MEN

Runtime 68 minutes Show Contents 0:00 Introduction with guest Jolie Featherstone 3:44 The New Slang: MEN 49:07 Spoiler Section Thoughts from your host… If you tilt your head and squint, it almost looks like “normal times”. There’s a film seen in a cinema, there’s company coming along for the trip…had we been able to snack without our masks it might have felt exactly like “before”. It’s still not though – and we’re still further away than everyone really wants to believe. Today’s guest gets that, and for my money you can hear it in the perspective she brings to this discussion. She comes hardwired with empathy and looking at the world through the eyes of others. She’s one of the best people out there for understanding that it’s not all about her – even during times when things are very much about her. Like so many others, I too would like to go back to “the before times”. I’d like to go in groups to the movies that offer the most excitement or look like they will court discussion. I would like to wander back along the downtown streets and sit down with a guest to capture a show that gets shared with you lovely folks in short order. Guests like Jolie – friends, people I care about and who care about me – teach me that consideration, patience, perspective can illuminate not only more within the culture we consume, but also in the communities we call home. They push us to pick each other up, and think about life through eyes that are not our own. What’s more, the film that we discuss today (differing opinions that we have) is an attempt by an artist to tell a story that isn’t their reality. It’s still not “before”…but it’s getting closer and closer. I have to wonder if more of us were like today’s guest, and even today’s director…we might be a lot closer to “before” Links mentioned in Episode 285: Jolie’s writings at Wylie Writes Matineecast 235 where Jolie and Ryan discuss MARRIAGE STORY immediately after a screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox Jolie’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome and thank you very much for listening. Enjoy!