i dont get the point in the story when bj talks about how he was watching the same movie and then he hid it and then they watched a diff movie and the one guy loved it and then they kept re watching that one instead. I’m missing the significance of what this part meant! someone tell me!
i don’t know if its meant to just to be a good transition for the classic lines of, “well lifes a bitch and then ya die” and she goes, “yeah but sometimes lifes a bitch and then you keep living”
It’s sort of like the story about the woman in rehab who believed she had a secret admirer, when in reality she had simply unintentionally (yet negligently/ selfishly) stolen Bojack’s snack box. Though his snack box clearly had his initials on it, her selfishness and lack of common sense lead her to believe it stood for something else. In his letter to Diane, he writes out the entire scenario from start to finish.
Now he’s in prison, which is a much different institution, but an institution nonetheless. So this is the story he is choosing to tell about his time spent there.
It’s Bojack’s way of trying to find some sort of deeper meaning in the mundane, or even paint something plain as interesting. Bojack’s life prior to these two new experiences was chaotic and jarring, and he always had some seriously interesting stories to tell. It isn’t that prison or rehab are necessarily mundane or boring… But they ARE new for him because they are a routine. Structured routine is something Bojack is very unfamiliar with. When he finds himself living within the newness of a structured routine, small stories like this are highlights for him. They are meaningful to him, even if he has to dig for the how and why and the symbolism to be drawn from them.
It’s important for him to find importance in the day-to-day of it all.