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This Week In Film (3/1/21 - 3/7/21)

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 March 1, 2021 - March 7, 2021 Hello and welcome to March in Chicago. So far we've had twenty degree and sixty degree weather and we are in the first week. No one wants small talk about the weather. I learned in a YouTube video [worst beginning of a sentence ever] that people in Sweden abhor small talk and see it as a waste of time. They say people will contrive elaborate schemes to ensure they do not have to talk to others when heading out of the house. The video tried to show how humans need small talk. We have to test the waters before we jump in. I don't agree. If the pandemic has taught us anything, when someone asks how you are, we are allowed to pour all of our garbage out. Instead of the monosyllabic, "Fine," that we've been accustom to, we can go into our bout with seasonal depression. We can open up about how its been a week since we left the house or how we've found peace hidden deep inside the covers on our bed. Seriously, try it out. If some rando...