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About this video essay:
Why is it that we struggle so much to help those who are closest to us, those we should know and understand? Why can’t we save those we love?
Sources:
Norman Maclean – A River Runs Through It:
Ernest Becker – The Birth and Death of Meaning:
Further Reading:
Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List:
10 Books that changed my life:
10 More books that inspired my thinking:
Media included:
500 Days of Summer; 50/50; A Beautiful Mind; A River Runs Through It; About Time; Ali; Amadeus; American Sniper; Apollo 11; At Eternity’s Gate; Beautiful Boy; Before Midnight; Before Sunrise; Before Sunset; Blade Runner 2049; Brokeback Mountain; Captain Fantastic; Casino Royale; Crazy Stupid Love; Demolition; Ford v Ferrari; Free Solo; Get On Up; Good Will Hunting; Goodfellas; Grizzly Man; Her; I Tonya; Interstellar; Into the Wild; Lincoln; Little Women; Louder Than Bombs; Man of Steel; Marriage Story; Moonlight; My Own Private Idaho; Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin; Opening Night; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Rocky; Senna; Song to Song; Steve Jobs; The Descendants; The End of the Tour; The Haunting of Hill House; The Imitation Game; The King’s Speech; The Leftovers; The Shawshank Redemption; The Tree of Life; The Two Popes; The Wolf of Wall Street; To the Wonder; Tolkien; Voyage of Time
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