Young Adam and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself are both Scottish films starring male leads obsessed with death. But the two movies are really quite different. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a comparison.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.