In this episode, Todd and Ken look at Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Is being a part of a larger whole horrific or comforting? Are some life purposes more exalted than others? Can community make us whole?

SHOW NOTES:

0:30 - Intro, summary, and Martin Scorsese as a spiritual auteur 4:29 - Having a sense of purpose and fixing what is broken 7:08 - The world as machine and people as machine parts 13:44 - Finding a purpose versus having a task 17:52 - Movie idolatry? 20:56 - Connection and community 27:29 - Finding a heart-shaped key 29:12 - Concluding judgments

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