Hello, you welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies today.

And this is a format of an episode we've never done before and we will probably never do again,

but it felt right at the moment.

We are talking about grief on film with Alex Alexander.

Trust me, you don't have to have seen any of the movies we're about to talk about

in order to be able to be a part of this conversation, in order to be able to get something

out of this conversation.

I'll have a series of

content warnings to offer momentarily. But here we primarily talk about Lars von Trier's The Idiots.

We talk about Kenneth Longerins, Manchester by the sea, and we talk about Wes Anderson's

The Darjeeling Limited. My audio and the intro specifically might

seem a little off because, and you can't plan this sort of thing, I'm recording this

introduction on my phone from Boston because I am here unexpectedly for a funeral and series

of memorial services for my friend Gabe Hirschfeld.

So I'll talk a little bit more about that in the introduction.

But first, you should know that you are good at feelings podcasts about movies.

It's exactly what it sounds like we talk about movies, not as film critics, but as people

who watch them and try to bend better understand who and how we are

in the world. We try to talk about what about ourselves we see in the movies and what about,

you know, being humans around other people. What in the movie we see that resonates

with that conundrum.

That's what we're doing.

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