It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with.

Genevieve Koski.

And Scott Tobias.

Tasha Robinson cannot be with us this week, having abandoned the Tribeca Film Festival to pursue her love of the rodeo.

On the first half of this episode, we discussed Abyskirist Domini's 1990 film Closeup, which blends fact and fiction and recreation to depict an odd incident in Tehran.

In this episode, we turn our eyes back to America, albeit a slice of America that most of us will rarely get to see,

the sprawling, unspoiled modern day west of South Dakota and the horse culture that still thrives there.

It's home to Brady Blackburn, a young radio writer and horse trainer who we first see tending to a vicious head wound. Blackburn's played by Brady Jandro, a real-life radio writer, director Chloe Jow, met while filming her directorial debut, songs my brothers taught me. He also shares more than her first name with the film's protagonist. Brady Blackburn shares a trailer with his father, Tim, and his developmentally disabled sister, Lily, played respectively by Jandro's real-life

father and sister when he knew Lily Jandro. The similarities don't end there. Jow told Vanity Fair

she already had vague plans to make a movie with Jandro when he received a head injury while competing in the radio.

When she saw a photo of

Gendro back on the job mere weeks later, she knew what film she wanted to make. But the writer

isn't a simple, inspirational film about holding on your dreams. The question of whether Brady can

continue to pursue riding and training horses, the only things that seem to have given him

any kind of fulfillment, hangs over the film from beginning to end. Nor is a film about how dreams can destroy you, though that's never far from the story either.

Throughout the film, Brady visits his friend Lane Scott, a rodeo star whose own accident has made

it unlikely he'll ever live on his own again.

Instead, the writer lives in the space between those two possibilities, acknowledging that

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