Popcorn Eschaton 76 - 'Defending Your Life'

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the film 'Defending Your Life' with guest Becky D'Anna, exploring its themes of humor in death and achieving intimacy.

Popcorn Eschaton is joined by the wonderful Becky D'Anna to discuss one of her favorite films, the Albert Brooks comedy of the afterlife, 'Defending Your Life'! They discuss the creative voice of Albert Brooks, how the film finds humor in death, as well as how it depicts lifting the fog of fear from your life to achieve true intimacy. Logo designed by Jesse Arnold (https://www.instagram.com/just.shelve.it/) Theme music is "Sun Blood" by Oxeneers (https://oxeneers1.bandcamp.com/) Song clip at the end is "Afterlife" by Sacrifice, available on the album 'Forward to Termination'

People in this episode

Guest: Becky D'Anna

Topics covered

• film
• comedy
• afterlife
• intimacy
• death

Keywords

• Albert Brooks
• humor
• fear
• film discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Defending Your Life

Books & works: Defending Your Life, Sun Blood, Afterlife, Forward to Termination

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