Two people discuss Leonardo DiCaprio's film "One Battle After Another," which explores how choices at 23 shape your life decades later. They ask the harder question: would you actually be friends with your younger self, given that version of you made decisions you're still living with?
I never want to get to the point where someone's like, I get it. I don't need to watch the rest of this.
I experienced that with the— what's the last— the latest DiCaprio movie? One Battle After Another. Yeah, One Battle After Another. Like, I was 30 minutes in. I'm like, I get it. I feel like you're just preaching to me.
That movie's about the decisions you make as a 23-year-old are dictating your life as a 40-something-year-old. And that idea was interesting to me. The— like, I didn't even see it as a political movie at all. I saw it as a movie about how me as a middle-aged man, I'm living the life that was decided for me by a 23-year-old. And I don't even know if I would be friends with myself at that age. And so that was the idea that I sort of loved about that movie. Man, I don't even like that person. And that person got to decide my whole life. Yeah.
I didn't get that far.
