Movies bring people together across political divides by showing characters finding mutual respect on screen. Speaker B recalls a packed theater for Kid 'n Play's film and the simple pleasures of popcorn and Icees, arguing that shared cinema creates collective memory and understanding.
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So I think that, you know, it's a story of the times and that you've got people from the right, people from the left, people from the middle coming to see this film and seeing that there is a path forward for all of us. Because if our two characters can find mutual respect through a film like this, you know, in, in the story that, that resonates with other people, then other people need to be having those conversations too. And hopefully there is a path that we can find together to come together a little bit more as a country.
Yeah, you know, you made me think about it when you said, you know, we being in a theater with everybody, not only for the popcorn and the Icees. I loved getting refills on the Icees. That's— Yeah, yeah. But I remember when I was in high school, I think it was my— might have been my freshman year, and a house party, the first house party. Kid 'n Play had just came out, and you just made me think about that time, man. That theater, it was so packed, you know what I'm saying? We was just out there having a good time. And you know, that's just how it used to be, man.