Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Talal Alyan

  The third amigo joins Levi and Levin with the one and only, Talal Alyan, with Michel Gondry's  2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- a beautiful, miserable film about love, memory, and the desire to forget the people who absolutely devastate you. Some of us enjoy the film and understand it's about choosing connection, even when it hurts. The other is, well, a coward. If you listen closely, you can hear the "fear".  We also discuss the beginning of the end of the ever-so-loved archetype  "manic pixie chick" and the beginning of the "performative brooding male," the cast, Levi cries... ok, no, he doesn't, but wanted to see if anyone actually reads this. We interrupt each other, gang up, talk over each other's plot points, and absolutely project our own baggage onto the film, like real friends.  This episode is a heater. Just listen to the damn thing.