Think about your Big Breakup. You probably have one, right? Like, you’ve had a few breakups but you had one that just fuckin’ destroyed you as a person, that utterly and completely brought you down and made you reconsider your whole life.
Remember how it turned you into a complete fucking idiot? Instead of being able to experience emotions like a normal person you just flipped your shit and went all stupid? Remember how you were trying to forget about it? Well, uh, sorry for bring it up.
My point is they suck and it sucks to think about them. I’m glad I drank so much in my Big Breakup that I can barely remember it, because otherwise I would probably still be drinking about it.
While the rest of us are burying those memories deep, deep under layers of neurosis, one brave men is laying it all out for the world to see and subsequently laugh at.
‘The Berlin Patient‘ documents the attempts of a man named Joel as he attempts to win back his girlfriend via a series of “postcards” that he sent as voice recordings.
It’s a cringeworthy, extremely funny, no-holds-barred look into just how fucking crazy we get after shit hits in the fan in a relationship.
In his own words:
“In 2010 Joel and his girlfriend moved from Sydney to Berlin to try and fix their broken relationship. After a month she left him and flew back home. To try and win her back, Joel emailed her 90 minutes of audio recordings that contained; horrendous anecdotes, horrible Hollywood clichés and he even passed off Pearl Jam lyrics as his own.“He recently found these lost files and sat down with some friends, stand-up comedians and a therapist to analyse the lies, depression and desperation that a breakup brings.”
Joel and his mates listen to and commentate on the unabridged and unedited recordings of all the dick jokes and lies and terrible poetry that he used to try and woo back his lady love, and it is a truly cathartic delight to know that at least one other person got as weird as you did when you went through the same thing.
Only the first episode is up so far but it is a true delight of both fantastic editing (nice work, Joel) and schadenfreude, have a listen:
If you dig it, which you absolutely should, you can follow the progress of the show on Facebook right here.
