Welcome to The Man Talk Show.

I am Connor Beaton.

And joining me today are Jonathan Decker and Alan Searight, who are the creators of cinema therapy, which is a really interesting online.

It's mostly on YouTube, but it's an online platform where they use cinema.

They use movies and TV shows to break down therapeutic concepts.

So this is how they describe it.

This is literally word for word, the biography that they

send me. Cinema therapy is hosted by licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and film right, Alan C. Wright.

They discuss how movies can be used to improve your life and how to watch movies with your brain

turned on. Also, there are jokes. So, uh, and one of their catchphrases is making sense of life,

one blockbuster at a time. So we're going to dive into archetypes in, in this, in some,

a bit of a light way. We're going to talk about mythology. And for whatever reason, we sort of

focus in on the Marvel series. And we kind of go deep into

how certain characters are portrayed in the Marvel series. We talk about masculinity in relationship

to the characters that we see in mainstream TV, in mainstream movies. And we explore really how the heroic archetype is

portrayed through these movies and the depth and the layers of psychological understanding,

self-understanding, therapeutic understanding, that there actually is in a lot of these movies. And so this is a bit nerdy.

There's some funny parts to this, but this is a great conversation about how we can actually

view the content that we are intaking in a different lens through a sort of brain on, as they say, a brain turned on lens

to better actualize, to better self-understand, to better understand, to better understand

the sort of mythological journeys that all of us are naturally on. So without any further delay,

please welcome Jonathan Decker and Alan Seywright from Cinema Therapy. Fantastic.

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