Yeah.

Um, so yeah, it's this 2015 movie by Marielle Heller, and it basically is depicting...

I find it similar 'cause it's depicting kind of like a sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s, and the way that that kind of tipped over into, like, sexual exploitation of women.

Very much paralleling, like, the time that it came out in.

In 2015, it was, like, the SlutWalk era and-

For sure.

My reparative reading of this scene, like, I, uh, I didn't even know how to feel about it the first time I watched it.

I felt complicated.

Mm-hmm.

But essentially Winston Groom is a Vietnam War veteran, and he wrote this book that he designed to be kind of like a picaresque novel.

And for context, the picaresque novel is this, like, literary tradition where it's a story that follows a singular character through se- like a, a very wide array of events in their life, often with a satirical tone.

The example that I use in the video is Candide by Voltaire.Which is basically about a character who witnesses an absurd, uncanny amount of terrible events in his life, but the book is written with a really matter-of-fact tone, kind of almost comedic.

And it's supposed to be kind of pointing at the fact that the world is a difficult place, and we need to nurture it instead of, instead of ignoring it and believing the world is just, like, this positive, amazing place.

And I'd say Forrest Gump the book is pretty similar.

Forrest Gump is very different in the book.

Yeah.