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The Man Who Wasn't There Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self

Anil Ananthaswamy

*Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award* Anil Ananthaswamy’s extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer perspectives that will change how you think about who you are. These individuals all lost some part of what we think of as our se...

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Monday Morning Podcast

The podcast host recounted watching the Coen brothers' film "The Man Who Wasn't There," relating to Billy Bob Thornton's character and feeling unseen or unheard, comparing it to his own experiences as a child and husband. He highlighted the movie's humor and the relatability of Thornton's character to married men.

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I watched this Coen brother one that I somehow missed the man who wasn't there when it came out this gorgeous black-and-white movie that they shot and it has Billy Bob Thornton Franz McDermott and Jam...

— Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcas...

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-26-24

The podcast host recounted watching the Coen brothers' film "The Man Who Wasn't There," relating to Billy Bob Thornton's character and feeling unseen or unheard, comparing it to his own experiences as a child and husband. He highlighted the movie's humor and the relatability of Thornton's character to married men.

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I watched this Coen brother one that I somehow missed the man who wasn't there when it came out this gorgeous black-and-white movie that they shot and it has Billy Bob Thornton Franz McDermott and James Gandolfini, and it's just it's The dude from monk. I'm not good with the names

Just an incredible movie and I will say what was unsettling is how much I related to Billy Bob's character It's sort of a married guy thing and it's one of those things where you know Whatever this I keep forgetting the name of the movie the man who wasn't there It's like everybody sees him, but they don't see him. They don't hear him like with one of the running jokes in the movie is They'll ask him if you know, you want a cigarette and then he just like holds up like The fact that he's already smoking a cigarette like people just like they just sort of talk at him And he says things and nobody like hears him

It's called the man who wasn't there Billy Bob Thornton It's a Coen brother movie and it's fucking hilarious because everybody can see him But nobody listens to him and there's this running joke in the movie where people go like hey, man you want a cigarette and he's like Like he already has one day like they don't even see it. He like he like confesses to a murder Nobody like listens to him

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