I've seen The Princess Bride more times than I can count. After rewatching it recently, I took some notes. Here are my thoughts...

Usually, writing about why The Princess Bride is a comfort movie is like writing about why a tree produces oxygen. It just does. It's science. Thousands of microscopic events and millennia of basic evolution collided to create an objective truth, and to question "why?" would be like staring straight into the sun instead of just basking in its rays. However, we are living in trying times—unless you're a wasteland marauder discovering this piece in the future as an artifact, I don't think I need to re-hash why—and it can be worthwhile to explore just …