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Waxing vaguely poetic about this myself, Break, thinking I could tune in and out. another film came to mind: the artsy-thinky romance I don’t think I’m spoiling it when I tell you it’s about Before Sunrise, which is about two people having a very an extreme athlete–turned–FBI agent who infiltrates an long chat. “If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must extreme athlete–crime syndicate on a mission to complete be in the attempt of understanding someone,” says one a series of impossible physical feats and commit a series of to the other. “It’s almost impossible to succeed, but ... the extraordinary crimes. (At least one surfing crime syndicate answer must be in the attempt.” actually did exist in history—see page 62.) There’s a lot I think that’s why we love stories about impossible of beautiful scenery and unbelievable stunts. And there’s things, whether or not their endings are “happy.” I won’t a lot of waxing vaguely poetic about the allure of doing ruin Point Break for you, but this story has one: I accom- the impossible. I giggled watching it, because it was plished my own improbable feat! The baby slept the absurd, but also because it struck me how very different entire movie, through the credits, and well into the second the mental_floss definition of an “impossible” feat is from showing, so I watched it one and a half times (I was afraid Hollywood’s. to move to change the channel). If that doesn’t scream Because for this issue, we were knee-deep in a story impossible, I don’t know what does. about a guy who tries to become a goat. (Not dress up as a goat, but rather, logistically and philosophically become a goat. There’s a lot to unravel—we attempt on page 34.) 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