This is the Ransom Tart podcast. I'm Alan Arnold, and it's the week of January 13th.

We're in part two of a conversation with John and me on story.

It's called God movies in your story because we're understanding and unpacking

not only how to view stories that we watch or read,

but actually how to understand better the story we're living,

to understand what chapter we're in,

what to do when our own story feels stuck.

I think you're going to really enjoy this.

We originally recorded this conversation in 2018,

and now here's the second half of God, movies, and your story. Alan, what film in recent years has particularly grabbed you?

Well, it's the secret life of Walter Middy. And the reason, it's basically the

story of a man who has no life, yet he's working at Life magazine. And so it's this perfect,

ironic setup. And he finds himself in really the bowels of the company on the bottom floor underground working with negatives.

And his life is negative and it's all about other people and he stays hidden.

And yet he gets pulled into this adventure, this journey of not only trying to find this image for the cover of Life magazine,

but that search opens his life up to who he is.

And so it's an amazing journey, transformative movie, and just really spoke to my heart.

A man who has lost heart, clearly.

He's taken out.

Right.

And battle to fight, adventure to live.

And a beauty.

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