Hello, fellow movie friends. I'm Lily Percy and I'm the host of the podcast. This movie changed me.

I believe that movies have the power to transform us. My own life has been filled with moments spent in theaters and at home, with friends and by myself, learning through and with movies.

And now I'm learning what movies have shaped you. So let's travel back in time together.

Pause whatever you're doing right now and close your eyes.

Think about the first time you saw a movie that changed your life.

Where you were, who you were with, and how it made you feel.

Hmm.

Um.

Um, let me think.

Well, I mean, the weird thing is, this is something that I think about pretty much every day.

So the things that popped into my mind were...

College.

College.

You know, I saw the whiz when I was about nine or ten years old.

It was the summer after high school, high school graduation, I think it was.

I remember so clearly sitting in the cinema and looking around other people thinking,

look, over there, there's like a middle-aged lady, she's going to be okay, so you'll be all right.

I was in fear of my life.

The energy was so electric.

The energy was so amplified.

I remember my eyes kind of welling up, actually, when the mariachi version of the Disney theme started.

Like, that's how already emotional I was. It made me feel seen. For the first

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