BetterDads Movie Series

Two series.
The same mirror, different angles.

Film and TV — mainstream only. If a bloke at a barbecue wouldn't know it, we skip it. Two ways to look in: characters who show what it looks like to get it right, and characters whose worst patterns we recognise in ourselves.

Series B · The warning

We've all been him.

Patterns to catch. Five characters most men have, in smaller ways, lived through.

Breaking Bad
Walter White
The lie you tell yourself. Ego disguised as providing.
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American Beauty
Lester Burnham
Midlife tantrum disguised as awakening.
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Whiplash
Andrew Neiman
Obsession as identity. What you sacrifice reveals what you value.
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Mad Men
Don Draper
Performing your life instead of living it.
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The Sopranos
Tony Soprano
Awareness without action is just a more comfortable prison.
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Series A · The aspiration

What this movie teaches us about being a man.

Lessons to carry. Characters who show what it looks like to get it right.

Good Will Hunting
Stop running.
The walls you build to stay safe are the same ones keeping your life small.
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Gladiator
Identity without attachment.
Who you are when everything is taken away.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
Presence over perfection.
Don't disappear when it gets hard.
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Fight Club
Build meaning or drift.
Emptiness without direction becomes destruction.
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Interstellar
Time is finite.
What are you chasing, and what is it costing your family?
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