Good morning from Milano. It’s interesting. Today is Monday morning, March 4th and I’m recording because I couldn’t spit it out in the past days. I hit a brick wall. I was initially going to speak about this beautiful film I saw called Past Lives. I had a lot to say about how the different lens we bring to movies or art of any sort colors the way we experience and interpret things. Anyway, I know that may sound like stating the obvious, but it was interesting to me that after I saw this film with my friend Tiziana our commentary immediately following the movie on our way home was about completely different things.

If you haven’t seen it, Past Lives is great. The story is about friends who reunite after many years. The female lead in the movie left Korea at a young age. Through social media, she gets back in touch with her childhood best friend, who happens to be a very handsome Korean man at this point. Anyway, my friend’s initial comments were about the relationship between the characters and my comments were about the experience of the woman having left her native land and what this reconnection represented to her personally.

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