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You can come up with four thousand other guesses, of course, about why Amma did it. In the end, the fact remains: Amma enjoyed hurting. ‘I like violence,’ she’d shrieked at me. I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

1. If its your first job after a gap, don't say its a health reason. They will probably not ask more but they'll probably mentally downgrade you because 'Are they really okay to come back to work?' If it's further back, it'll be less of an issue. This goes triple for any job that is physical.

2. Depending on hiring person, I find 'I was caring for a family member full time' to be a good reason for a gap that I won't question.

3. If you have the opportunity while in a gap, get a certification or degree. Then you can use that as a reason for your gap and it could potentially turn the view of that gap from negative to positive.

4. If you have a "good" reason, most people understand. I speak to people daily who were a Covid layoff and we don't count this gap against them. I also sometimes talk to people who have to explain gaps around 2008 with "Well that was during the financial crisis" and I go say no more I understand.

Listen to this episode from 50 First Films on Spotify. SPOILERS - We discuss the entirety of A Quiet Place Part II, so keep that in mind before listening! Steven and Sylvia went to the movies! This isn’t our normal format, so things go a little off the rails in this special episode. Topics include moviegoing experiences, copaganda, survival genre tropes, and more things I don’t want to talk about here because they’re spoilers!

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In this episode, Sylvia and Steven talk about the Seinfelds and the Bees… And capitalism… And Marxism…  And the inevitable overturning of humanity… but mostly, bees… We think.

By Sylvia.

When I share movies the goal isn’t to expose someone to the greatest movies ever made. It doesn’t honestly matter to me if a movie is objectively good. Because really, who can actually be objective when consuming media? Everything about ourselves dictates whether or not we enjoy a movie, whether or not we think it’s worth sharing. To me, all a movie has to do is garner some kind of reaction for it to be worth sharing.

This week I made Steven watch the absurd 2007 animated film “Bee Movie,” and I will say there were multiple times where the look on his face said, “Why are you making me watch this, you lunatic?”

I’m not laboring under the delusion that Bee Movie is good. Because honestly it isn’t. It’s loses the thread of it’s own plot too many times, makes questionable decisions about humor style, doesn’t understand who the audience is supposed to be, etc… It’s not an “objectively” good movie. But, it is definitely something that sticks with you, something that you remember and maybe even laugh about later. It has a few good one liners, a weird romance plot between a bee and a human that to this day still has people scratching their heads, and a really fumbling attempt to say something about capitalism and communism that leads to some interesting thoughts about the working class and their place in the social hierarchy.

Not to mention the meme culture, the fan fiction, the weird inside jokes that the absurdity in this movie inspired are something that could be looked at through quite an interesting anthropological lens (but I’ll leave that for the scientists among us).

All this to say, this movie did have some kind of impact on me, on my sense of humor, on the way I interacted with people online in the early 20-teens. So, of course I wanted to share it with my partner. I won’t say something like Bee Movie is a big part of my personality, but I like to think of myself as a multifaceted person, and if one little sliver of a glinting facet was put there by a ridiculous movie from 2007, then I’d like to share that with someone who cares to know every part of me.

How about you? Any weird or “bad” movies that contribute to the overall you?

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