AVClub: If Baskets preaches any sort of truth, it’s that under the right circumstances a person can convince themselves of anything. It may be difficult to convincingly deceive others into believing a lie, but it’s much easier to deceive yourself. It’s how Chip keeps chugging along in his go-nowhere career as a rodeo clown. It’s why Martha accepts heap of verbal abuse from the world around her as the accepted norm. It’s why Christine lives a recklessly unhealthy life and pretends it’s fine. These ordinary delusions can provide meaning to our lives just as easily as they can entrap them; they give our actions consequence while highlighting their futility. A perceptive owl in a different dramatic yarn once said, “When you look at the world through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
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