Episode 96 - LARS AND THE REAL GIRL with Scott Stiegemeyer

And maybe I'll just start with this.

When I was looking at the reviews on Letterboxd, it's very mixed.

Very mixed reviews of this film.

And some of the people were like, I saw it.

It seemed pretty well made.

I didn't get it at all.

And I wonder what your thoughts are on that.

But I also wonder if maybe that has something to do with where a person is coming from when they watch this because – which I think is probably true of films generally.

But I don't know.

what do you think about the fact that it seems to me pretty mixed in terms of who sort of was like, this is really good.

I really connected.

And I, other people said he didn't.

What, what made you connect to it? You said before we started recording, you'd watched it a couple of times in the last week.

Scott, what do you, what do you think?

Well, I mean, I'd seen it a long time ago, probably around the time it came out and then it was on my mind.

I don't know.

And then I watched it a couple of times, right.

Getting ready for this.

Because I wanted to write about it.

I just remembered that it had this very touching story with an unlikely premise and that it had something to say about the healing power of community.

And it happens to be this congregation and this guy's particular.

I didn't remember how much.

I mean, I've thought a lot more about mental mental health angle.

than I did when I'd seen it in the past.

But I mean, it just struck me as how this group of people, family and townspeople and friends and coworkers and church gather around this vulnerable member of their community and kind of carry him in a way.