When Marnie Was There - Personal Anxiety, Western Queerbaiting, and Transformative Love

PATREON MOVIE DISCUSSION: 

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Shirleon joins Melvin to discuss this month's Patreon-Picked flick: When Marnie Was There! Boy do they cover a lot of ground! From discussing its strong melancholy vibes to its extremely profound yet simple characters, no stone is left unturned!

Topics:

• (FREE PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 44-minutes discussing a trailer for an AI produced short film called "Next Stop Paris" that will debut on TCLtv+ Summer 2024, as well as other AI related discussions and surprises. (FREE PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• When Marnie Was There's opening is dour, and the whole film has a patient melancholy to it as well as strong depictions of the hijacking nature of anxiety on the body.
• Taking time to discuss how haunting the film feels, and the lyrics to Priscilla Ahn's "Fine on the Outside" theme song.
• The film drew a lot of personal experiences out of both Shirleon and Melvin, and the two discuss it further.
• Melvin explains the end of the film, as well as how that caught a lot of people off guard. Or, specifically, how they felt "queerbaited", and how Melvin thinks that's a wildly uneducated and inappropriate read of the film.
• When Marnie Was There is so overtly about the transforming benefits of practiced, personal, platonic love that Melvin has difficulty observing the film in any other way.
• Getting into various biblical stories that showcase practiced, personal, platonic love that produced hope.
• How the image of the Yukata being cleaned is a fitting icon of hope.

Mailbag Responses:

• Tips for watching horror movies as a Christian (Maddy from Texas) [00:39:47 > 00:48:31]

Recommendations:

• Vinland Saga (2019) (Anime)
• Texhnolyze (2003) (Anime)