When I was a kid, every now and then, we'd get to go to a movie as a family.

It wasn't something we did a ton, and money was a little bit tight for a lot of childhood

for me.

But when we went, it was very memorable, because it was a special occasion.

And I remember every time we go to a movie, we'd get in the car, a mom and dad are in

the front seat, and they look back at us three kids, and they will not dad.

He was driving and not your wrecking cars.

But mom would look back and be like, all right, what parts did you like?

And we would bounce back and forth all the stuff that we liked, and it was inevitably

the little kid moments, you know, the sides, the jokes, the jabs, the fart humor, whatever.

And the heroic moments where everything works out and you feel all the tension go away

and everything's better.

And they'd ask us what parts we didn't like, and those were always the darker moments,

the moments of confrontation, where we'd feel a little bit of trepidation.

And it pretty much always broke down along those lines.

And I suppose even into adulthood, if you were to ask me, well, what parts did you like

about sports and life and relationships and church and work and school and other institutions

I'm a part of?

I'd be like, the parts that were funny and fun and where awesome things happened and

everybody liked each other and it was great.

Well, what parts didn't you like?

Well, the parts that was tense and dark and there was interpersonal turmoil.

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