Lee has watched a couple of films and cried a lot. Simon asks Lee about the pleasure of crying.
Some other details from the episode: Eating chocolate in the morning, Jeffrey helping Lee decide whether or not to make cake, Lee's capacity to cry, Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan in Spaceman and All of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh, Sixth Sense spoiler (Bruce Willis is dead), Star Wars spoiler: Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, Carrie (1976), Steven Spielberg's wives, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spaceman Candy Sticks (NZ lolly in the shape of a cigarette), holding back tears, the content of the film making you cry or the something else that makes you cry, How to Make An American Quilt, Christopher Nolan, Memento and Guy Pearce, Lee remembering everything about films and Simon remembering nothing, Anne Hathaway, the strangeness of human beings, the capacity to make things of such beauty and the terror of human violence, Lee feeling hopeful because we tell stories of love and care, hope being the opposite of fear, Simon's new hot water bottle dreams.
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