Hi. Do you guys listen to the School of Movies podcast? I've been enthralled lately. Last night, sitting around the living room with my family, we put on the School of Movies episode about Joseph Campbell's seminal book on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
School of Movies is interesting because it tends to break down narratives into digestible chunks that go plot-point by plot-point through a script. This discussion of a philosophical work at first seemed outside of their usual purview, but the more I listened, the more I realized that they were breaking down the basic reason why humans need movies in the first place.