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• Speaker #0

  What's your favorite movie? I don't necessarily mean the one you believe to be the greatest cinematic achievement. I'm talking about the one you watch over and over, the one you share with people you're close to or want to get close to, or maybe the one that helped shape who you are, what you believe, or maybe it's that movie that changed your life.

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  I just love this movie.

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  It's one of those movies that you bring your friends to and depending on how they react. to it sort of determines whether or not they're your friends.

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  That movie came along at a time that really comforted me in a way.

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  I don't know if I can really articulate what it is about the film other than just saying it's kind of everything.

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  I have used the film as a litmus test for like every boyfriend I've ever had.

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  I can honestly say is the reason I'm still alive today.

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  There's just something delightful about it.

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  My name is Tim Kirkman, and I'd like to invite you to listen to Real Lives. R-E-E-L Lives, a podcast about movies and the people who love them. In each episode, we take one film and hear stories from people about the ways in which the film had an impact on their lives. From scholars and psychologists, to superfans, to the artists who helped bring the story to the screen, Real Lives is about how the power of gathering in a dark theater with a bunch of strangers can help us feel more connected to ourselves and to each other, one film at a time.

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  It is a different way of looking at what we might call mental illness.

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  It doesn't look to punch you in the face with what they're trying to say.

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  I hope that every person who grows up outside of that standard of beauty has a role model like that on screen to look to, to feel beautiful.

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  Kind of movie that you can watch it at different ages and it means something different to you.

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  I don't know if this a movie that can resonate now.

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  What Lars and the Real Girl gives us is...

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  Tender Mercies is... Local Hero is that kind of movie... The Sound of Music... Harold and Maude... what i will be remembered for if i'm ever remembered is for Dirty Dancing... don't get me started i have a whole theory about Mary Poppins i believe that movie's about a depressive

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  Look for Reel Lives on all your favorite podcast platforms