More Than One Lesson

We start with two dead men. One of them is still breathing, speaking, and growling humbugs at everything joyful and hopeful in the world. The other is as dead as… well, as a doornail. But both of them are quite dead indeed. And as Charles Dickens wisely instructed us on the very first page of A Christmas Carol, “This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”

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In this minisode, Tyler discusses the idea of home.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, Christmas songs
00:14:00- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
00:55:45- Shattered Glass
01:39:40- Episode wrap-up

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Tyler’s favorite film of all time, Robert Altman’s Nashville.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss the film content that Christians avoid.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro
00:06:10- Jim’s Top Ten
00:11:30- MTOL Store
00:23:55- The R rating, drug use
00:39:25- Violence
01:02:45- Language
01:13:25- Sex/Nudity
01:39:15- Episode wrap-up

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

“Therefore what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
Mark 10:9

The ninth verse of the tenth chapter or Mark’s gospel is the go-to citation for anyone trying to Biblically justify the forbidding of divorce.  At its heart the verse makes a lot of sense.  As Christians we believe, to one extent or the other, that many of the significant turning points in our lives – choice of college, career path, marriage, etc. – are willed by God, individual breaks deliberately constructed into a path that is meant to lead to the fruition of His will for us.  But removed from context, this verse has also been cited to induce shame, to bully weak minds and weaker hearts into submission and to ultimately justify greater evils, such as the acceptance of emotional and/or physical abuse, over lesser.

So, what happens when the words in that verse are flipped – “Therefore what God has put asunder, let no man put together”?

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In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Josh’s second favorite film of all time, the Coen Brothers’ Fargo.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly and Michael Corrente’s American Buffalo.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, My Son review, The Televerse
00:06:35- Killing Them Softly
00:47:35- American Buffalo
01:31:20- Episode wrap-up

Tyler was recently on the Televerse podcast to discuss the 1990s animated series The Tick.

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In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane.