Life Itself

Hello and welcome to another episode of Films for Today here on XXX 98.3 FM, the people-powered radio station.

I'm your host, Jimmy Bernasconi, and this week we are talking the 2018 dark comedy, Life Itself.

It's directed and written by Dan Fogelman.

This is described as a dark comedy.

But before we do, just to remind you, our listening to films for today, hosted by me, Jimmy Bernasconi, here on XXX98.3 FM, the People Powered Radio Network.

Anyway, I think the way that the film addresses this question of why might someone see a disaster when we see it is because they're ignoring the distance.

between you and your life or life itself you might say so there's this idea in the film that's quite explicitly dealt with in with olivia wilde's character when they do this flashback to her as a english literature student at university and she talks about this idea that all narrators are unreliable so you've got this idea of the unreliable narrator and she talks about like agatha christie books for example that use an unreliable narrative so you have a narrator that kind of leads you down the wrong path or like you know the usual suspects would be another example But she actually says it's not just this gimmick thing.

It happens every time because I guess you could say something like no one is omniscient, right? So like every time anything is narrated, narration can't capture everything that's going on.

Okay.

Won't back down or life itself.

Which of these movies that both involve buses is

better.

I'll go with Cam Gigantes won't back down.

All right.

Life itself.

Kenny?

And Investigation in two thousand is the, the, um, uh, the book that really, uh, starts this tradition that gets re- get, gets referenced most of the time.

And of course, uh, Robert Rosen, uh, Life Itself and all the stuff from a bit earlier on.

Life Itself is from nineteen ninety-one, and other papers, uh, are from the, from the eighties.

Um, what all these people have in common to connect this to what we were discussing about, um, five minutes ago, is a fundamental reference to Kant, uh, which is more, uh-

Mm