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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between, Somewhere Between,
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a film and TV podcast. I'm your host, Daniel Para
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and number one. Thank you so much for listening and watching.
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Number two. If you could please down blow, like, comment
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and subscribe, what did you think of the drama starring
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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson And Oh boy, guys, let's get
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ready for some controversy. I think that the marketing. Okay,
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let's go ahead and everything we review here, by the way,
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we'll have full spoilers. But I'm really excited to talk
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about this, so I kind of want to get out
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of the way right now. I love this. You should
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watch it immediately. It is provocative, It is so good,
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it's so funny, and I think it is absolutely worth watching,
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even if you come out of it hating it, just
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for the pure discussion alone that you're going to have
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about it. The drama is marketing. When it came out
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the teaser. Admittedly, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm
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very happy that they didn't reveal what the thing was.
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But here's what sucks. I knew what the thing was
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for a long time. I knew it for months to
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be honest with you, and the reason why is because
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people spoil things on the Internet, and to be honest
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with you, it's a little bit frustrating because of the
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people's kind of lack of acknowledgment of spoilers. Lately, I
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feel like people almost kind of want to get a
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hitdstart and being like, haha, I told you that's what
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it is, and that's really aggravating. So whenever the big
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reveal of the thing was in the movie, I didn't
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get the secondhand embarrassment that maybe you're supposed to the
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cringe aspect of that, because that's definitely what this movie
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is going for. But get that a lot through a
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lot of other stuff throughout this movie, so maybe the
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whole payoff of it is still worth it. What I'm
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gonna tell you now is I don't know if the
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thing that I mention in this, that happens in this
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is going to get taken down because of the content matters.
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So what I will say is everything again has full spoilers,
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but I'll phrase it this way. It is a US
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issue that keeps happening, that happens a lot in schools,
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and the character that Zendeo plays is found to have
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nearly gone through with doing one of these big national
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American tragedies that you see on the news nearly every day.
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And the entire concept of this movie is a moral dilemma.
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But let's first read a description a happily engaged couple
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get put to the test when an unexpected revelation sends
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their wedding week off the rails. Now it's asking you,
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the audience, a very interesting moral dilemma. How far are
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you willing to accept, Sorry, guys, how far are you
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willing to accept your partner having done something in the past,
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And are you willing to acknowledge that maybe they've changed
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as a person or is it something that you just
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cannot look past? And I thought that this movie was
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a brilliant deconstruction of relationships, of how you keep secrets
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from each other and what that means and what that
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looks like, and how that can affect your relationship in
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the future. Is it worth telling people these things? And
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is it worth kind of acknowledging that people might react
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to you in a specific way, either to virtue signal
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or to put their own beliefs into your own head,
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or just not trust you despite their own hypocrisy. It's
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about a lot, and to be honest with you, let's
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just get right into it that I love it, that
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I hate it, or am I somewhere between on it?
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I said it already. I loved this movie. I thought
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the marketing it's kind of hilarious. If you walk into like,
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you know how there's always that trope of like the
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boyfriend of trope. It's a real life thing where he's like,
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I don't want to watch a romance? Why are you
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making me go and watch this? Based off the trailer,
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and then you actually watch it and they're probably like,
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oh my god, what is this? It's very much an
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interesting read on American culture, and it's very specific to
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US culture and relationships because this particular type of event
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doesn't happen anywhere else that often, and it's very much
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While watching it, I very much felt like everybody that
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is casting this is casting their roles for a very
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specific reason. I feel like Robert Pattinson being from the
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UK and being this the way that he is in
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terms of acknowledging the US presence of well, you guys
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kind of made it your culture to appreciate this and
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act this way. So it's obvious to me why you
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would fall into this after some thought, and Zendeia is
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very much the thing that she almost does. If it
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were anyone else in that role, if it were a male,
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like a white man in that role that were to
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have almost done that thing, I'm very curious if the
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discourse around this would be the same or if it
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would be different. And in my perspective, I'm very interested
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to hear about that from other people, because I've asked
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a couple of people what that situation would look like
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to them, what would they do? And then you ask yourself,
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if my partner I found out they did or near
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did something to this level, what do I react with?
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And it's very much about acceptance and forgiveness and maybe
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even an understanding of the person that this person was
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when they were younger is not who they are now.
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And that's illustrated really, really well visually. Let's get into
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the pros. The pros first are Zendeia and Robert Pattinson
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have a really brilliant kind of anti chemistry with each
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other in this. They obviously get along really well at first,
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and I like their chemistry with each other, but it
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very much is relating to the sort of clash that
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these characters have throughout the entire movie. It leads to
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a Robert Pattinson very much deliberating what do I do here?
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Do I steer into my feelings? It's like my kind
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of shock? Is that anything worth paying attention to? What
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I have even reacted this way? If my friend weren't
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there in that pivotal scene. And the scene itself where
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this happens is really fascinating because it's a deconstruction looking
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back on it in my perspective of how each of
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these characters view life, and to be honest with you,
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I think this might be one of those movies that
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might even be studied at a point purely for even
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psychological reasons and for screenplay purposes. I think that it
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is really really brilliantly written. And I can't help but
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find the whole dynamic there in that scene alone at
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the trying, all the wine and all of that to
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be really fascinating. Because Rachel, played by Alana Heim's character, Oh,
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I'm just going to straight up say it is the
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villain of this poses the question of what is the
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worst thing that you have ever done? And she even
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points out her partners before she ever says her own,
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and he even doesn't want to do it, And to
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be honest with you, his is like the least if
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Robert Pattinson's is to believed, is like the least bad
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out of the four, and Rachel's, in my personal opinion,
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is worse than any of them. And part of me
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was wondering because I ended that movie. Second it was over,
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I leaned over to my girlfriend and I like, The
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very first thing I said was the Rachel did the
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worst thing she. I was like, why why is it
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that this character gets away with her thing where she
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locked a disabled person in a closet in an abandoned RV.
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I think it was, and she said it was instinctual.
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That's wild, instinctual to do what exactly? That's crazy to me.
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But the thing is nobody comes after her throughout this
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entire thing, and part of you wonders why. But I
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also think that that's part of the point. Part of
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the point is for you to be like, why is
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it that nobody is calling out Rachel's character except for
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the one time that somebody says, okay, But the difference
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is you actually did it, and almost out of frustration,
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Like she keeps pushing and pushing, and part of you
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is like, you kind of don't really have the right to,
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and she's using her own cousin. Cousin's trauma is like
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her sort of platform to die on, and part of
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you is like, yeah, I absolutely get it from like
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a keeping your family in mind and their safety and
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all of that, But she immediately kind of jumps to
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like a very specific attitude with Zindeia on Robert Pattinson's character.
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That's just kind of like, all right, you're doing You're
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doing a lot, and I don't agree with it because again,
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let's think about the thing that you mentioned that you did,
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and I still have no idea if Robert Pattinson's was
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even true. And I feel like part of this is
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also a litmus test in the sense of it's very
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I'm very curious how couples conversations will go about this
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particular movie, where it's obviously leading and lending, which is
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a good thing. Conversation of how far do you think
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you are willing to accept a partner's wrongdoing? Are they
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apologetic for it? Do they feel like what they did
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was maybe wrong? And a lot of this I found
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that there's almost operates on like a flashback structure. The
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entire time, I thought that Zendeia's character was going to
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have just like a brief flashback to when she was
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a kid, but it kind of flashes to this sequence
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of events over and over. And I found this after
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a while kind of start to also tangentially be a
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character study on the dynamics of children in school and
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how if we let that go a little bit too
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unchecked for too long, that can lead to a dangerous path.
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And I found that very fascinating, and it's really really
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interesting to me as well for it to show all
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of this imagery in a very evocative way, and admittedly
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sometimes in a very funny way. It's very contrasting to
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the life now. And if you want to say that
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it's in bad taste, I get it. But part of
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it is to prove a point. Part of it is
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to really state the specific feeling, the why, the almost
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kind of like the fact that we let this happen
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is almost ridiculous to a level of watching this girl
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go through that mentality, and how some of this could
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easily have been like we could have fixed this maybe
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earlier on and part of her whole thing where she
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says she didn't do it is because of something happening.
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I can't remember quite what it was. Oh, it was
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because a different thing had happened that same day that
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was too similar. So that's why she didn't do it,
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which is kind of insane. But I think that the
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logic there is very much a teenage going through this
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thought process. I thought that was very true too, how
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a teenager would think about this specific kind of scenario
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and so after that lending to doing something else to
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that effect, and that kind of being her saving grace.
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would have found that piece in the first place, which
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I found really interesting in a deconstruction level of how
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Zendea's character is and Robert Pattinson's character in the more
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modern day is kind of having this like breakdown of
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accepting somebody's faults and accepting that the passes behind them.
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There's this imagery that's very funny, but it's also very
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telling where he's constantly thinking about himself with the younger
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version of Zendeo. Whenever they're like outwalking, he's like envisioning
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her being a kid or he's envisioning, like, oh, she
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looks like this to me right now, and part of
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it's so ridiculous looking that there is an intentionality behind it.
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It's very much so like, Okay, well, I think that
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now this would probably be a case of just accepting
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somebody for, like we said, their faults and moving on
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and accepting this. I also think that the whole thing
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with the end where he nearly cheats on Zendeia right
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before their wedding, you get really frustrated with the character.
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You honestly kind of can't believe it, and you're like,
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come on, man, And then the whole argument is that like, oh,
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he didn't do it. I thought that was clever, again
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in a screenwriting perspective, to be like, oh, but he
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didn't follow through with it, so he still kissed her. Though,
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so I still think that, I mean moderately cheating. That's
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just that depends on who you ask. But I really
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liked that about this quite a bit. Also touching on this,
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Alana Heim's character just one more time, I want to say,
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is just aggravating part of you, Like, she plays that
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specific kind of character so well, and if you know
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that character, you've definitely met somebody like this in real life.
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It's very very true to the real world, and I
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thought that everybody here felt very lived in. I also loved,
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loved the way this was edited. I thought this was
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edited insanely well. I actually didn't know that it would
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be formatted like this. The whole opening where it's the
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wedding speech and him going through it with their actual
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event where they first met, is incredible. Some of it's
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edited almost like Family Guy, which I like Family Guy.
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I mean random, but I know, I know, But I
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still think that the kind of parallel back and forth,
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there's like a rhythm to it that is really really
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well orchestrated and well accomplished in the editing. The back
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and forth is just so good, honestly. And I also
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think that there's a lot of the way this is
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shot is fascinating because there's no magical realism in it
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there's so much panic happening through the entire thing. The
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third act is essentially a collection of just like the
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worst wedding ceremony you've ever seen, and it leading to
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all of that. There's an existential kind of dread throughout
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the entire thing because it's bubbling up, but you can't
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help but like not look away. And admittedly sometimes I
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do thrive in like kind of a awkward, hard to
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handle environment, So part of me is like enjoying watching this, Like,
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anxious by it. But that's like comfortable for me just
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because of the idea of being anxious. It's just like
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an everyday thing and for me at least like every
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second of the day. But here just being in this
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couldn't help it be like, but what are you going to?
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of the character's relationship before they had run into their issues.
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their relationship with each others and they and Robert Pattinson,
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they have a really good chemistry with each other, and
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real couple to me. I want to see the other
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stuff that they like discussed, what they were into, why
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they got along, what this rift was that happens that
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Robert Pattinson felt so kind of betrayed. But they even
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state they say, you latch onto things, you hyper fixate
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on things. You cannot get something out of your head
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until eventually it goes away. And unfortunately it's something I
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relate to. I get that mindset. I understand that because
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something will just pick at your brain over and over.
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character piece of writing, because he does act like the
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entire time, and part of you gets aggravated with him.
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over and over. And for me, that's the thing that
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I get, like, ugh, just like you're not helping your
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case out. There's one where he confronts the cousin out
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on the street and you're like, oh no, don't, don't,
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don't do that, and then he does still anyway, and
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you're like why, and then the next couple of minutes
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you're just like, don't say anything, and then he does.
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chaotic and really hard to watch, And I thought that
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was really fascinating in terms of the back and forth
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the whole produced by ari Astor, I was like, oh,
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of course it was. I have to say, his previous movie,
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Dream Scenario, I didn't love. I liked it just fine,
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but I thought that it didn't do enough with its concepts.
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I'm gonna look up the director's name really quick while
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I talk about this, but I thought that the Dream
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Scenario was uncomfortable for a couple of scenes. But I
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think that here he really specifically gets into the crux
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of the messaging and what it's about a lot more,
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which I really really liked. Christopher Borgley, I believe, and
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you can very much feel that like not American influence
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in the filmmaking here, because it feels very much like
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a window into how the US thinks about things, specifically
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relationship dynamics, but overall I loved this. I have heard
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that some people say that they think it's in bad taste,
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which I mean all the respect to you if you
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found that and you hated it. But I do think
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that there's some stuff in here, regardless of what you
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think of the quality of it, is worth going over. Also,
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I thought personally that the ending was a slam dunk.
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The ending in the diner and the conversation I have
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with each other I thought was really touching actually and
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kind of beautiful. I'm gonna give this a score. I'm
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gonna give this a four and a half out of five.
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I loved this movie a lot. Even if you ended
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up end up not liking it, I still think you
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should see it regardless of whatever you come out of
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it thinking. I think that it's a really interesting movie
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to have a conversation about. Anyway, Thank you guys so
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much for listening and watching. I have a lot of
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stuff coming up, specifically on the TikTok as well. Please
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follow on somewhere between pod on TikTok to see this
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stuff on there. But again, thank you guys so much
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for listening and watching. I'll see you next time.
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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between, Somewhere Between,
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a film and TV podcast. I'm your host, Daniel Para
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and number one. Thank you so much for listening and watching.
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Number two. If you could please down blow, like, comment
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and subscribe, what did you think of the drama starring
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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson And Oh boy, guys, let's get
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ready for some controversy. I think that the marketing. Okay,
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let's go ahead and everything we review here, by the way,
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we'll have full spoilers. But I'm really excited to talk
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about this, so I kind of want to get out
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of the way right now. I love this. You should
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watch it immediately. It is provocative, It is so good,
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it's so funny, and I think it is absolutely worth watching,
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even if you come out of it hating it, just
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for the pure discussion alone that you're going to have
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about it. The drama is marketing. When it came out
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the teaser. Admittedly, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm
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very happy that they didn't reveal what the thing was.
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But here's what sucks. I knew what the thing was
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for a long time. I knew it for months to
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be honest with you, and the reason why is because
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people spoil things on the Internet, and to be honest
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with you, it's a little bit frustrating because of the
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people's kind of lack of acknowledgment of spoilers. Lately, I
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feel like people almost kind of want to get a
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hitdstart and being like, haha, I told you that's what
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it is, and that's really aggravating. So whenever the big
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reveal of the thing was in the movie, I didn't
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get the secondhand embarrassment that maybe you're supposed to the
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cringe aspect of that, because that's definitely what this movie
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is going for. But get that a lot through a
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lot of other stuff throughout this movie, so maybe the
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whole payoff of it is still worth it. What I'm
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gonna tell you now is I don't know if the
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thing that I mention in this, that happens in this
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is going to get taken down because of the content matters.
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So what I will say is everything again has full spoilers,
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but I'll phrase it this way. It is a US
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issue that keeps happening, that happens a lot in schools,
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and the character that Zendeo plays is found to have
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nearly gone through with doing one of these big national
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American tragedies that you see on the news nearly every day.
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But let's first read a description a happily engaged couple
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get put to the test when an unexpected revelation sends
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their wedding week off the rails. Now it's asking you,
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the audience, a very interesting moral dilemma. How far are
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you willing to accept, Sorry, guys, how far are you
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willing to accept your partner having done something in the past,
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as a person or is it something that you just
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cannot look past? And I thought that this movie was
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a brilliant deconstruction of relationships, of how you keep secrets
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from each other and what that means and what that
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looks like, and how that can affect your relationship in
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the future. Is it worth telling people these things? And
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is it worth kind of acknowledging that people might react
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to you in a specific way, either to virtue signal
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or to put their own beliefs into your own head,
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or just not trust you despite their own hypocrisy. It's
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about a lot, and to be honest with you, let's
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just get right into it that I love it, that
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I hate it, or am I somewhere between on it?
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I said it already. I loved this movie. I thought
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the marketing it's kind of hilarious. If you walk into like,
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you know how there's always that trope of like the
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boyfriend of trope. It's a real life thing where he's like,
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I don't want to watch a romance? Why are you
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making me go and watch this? Based off the trailer,
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and then you actually watch it and they're probably like,
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oh my god, what is this? It's very much an
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interesting read on American culture, and it's very specific to
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US culture and relationships because this particular type of event
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doesn't happen anywhere else that often, and it's very much
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is casting this is casting their roles for a very
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specific reason. I feel like Robert Pattinson being from the
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UK and being this the way that he is in
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terms of acknowledging the US presence of well, you guys
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kind of made it your culture to appreciate this and
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act this way. So it's obvious to me why you
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would fall into this after some thought, and Zendeia is
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very much the thing that she almost does. If it
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were anyone else in that role, if it were a male,
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like a white man in that role that were to
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have almost done that thing, I'm very curious if the
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discourse around this would be the same or if it
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would be different. And in my perspective, I'm very interested
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to hear about that from other people, because I've asked
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a couple of people what that situation would look like
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to them, what would they do? And then you ask yourself,
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if my partner I found out they did or near
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did something to this level, what do I react with?
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even an understanding of the person that this person was
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when they were younger is not who they are now.
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the pros. The pros first are Zendeia and Robert Pattinson
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have a really brilliant kind of anti chemistry with each
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other in this. They obviously get along really well at first,
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and I like their chemistry with each other, but it
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very much is relating to the sort of clash that
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these characters have throughout the entire movie. It leads to
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a Robert Pattinson very much deliberating what do I do here?
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Do I steer into my feelings? It's like my kind
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of shock? Is that anything worth paying attention to? What
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I have even reacted this way? If my friend weren't
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there in that pivotal scene. And the scene itself where
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this happens is really fascinating because it's a deconstruction looking
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back on it in my perspective of how each of
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these characters view life, and to be honest with you,
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I think this might be one of those movies that
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might even be studied at a point purely for even
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psychological reasons and for screenplay purposes. I think that it
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is really really brilliantly written. And I can't help but
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find the whole dynamic there in that scene alone at
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the trying, all the wine and all of that to
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be really fascinating. Because Rachel, played by Alana Heim's character, Oh,
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I'm just going to straight up say it is the
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villain of this poses the question of what is the
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worst thing that you have ever done? And she even
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points out her partners before she ever says her own,
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and he even doesn't want to do it, And to
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be honest with you, his is like the least if
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Robert Pattinson's is to believed, is like the least bad
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out of the four, and Rachel's, in my personal opinion,
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is worse than any of them. And part of me
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was wondering because I ended that movie. Second it was over,
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I leaned over to my girlfriend and I like, The
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very first thing I said was the Rachel did the
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worst thing she. I was like, why why is it
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that this character gets away with her thing where she
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locked a disabled person in a closet in an abandoned RV.
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entire thing, and part of you wonders why. But I
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also think that that's part of the point. Part of
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the point is for you to be like, why is
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it that nobody is calling out Rachel's character except for
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the one time that somebody says, okay, But the difference
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is you actually did it, and almost out of frustration,
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is like, you kind of don't really have the right to,
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and she's using her own cousin. Cousin's trauma is like
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her sort of platform to die on, and part of
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you is like, yeah, I absolutely get it from like
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a keeping your family in mind and their safety and
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all of that, But she immediately kind of jumps to
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like a very specific attitude with Zindeia on Robert Pattinson's character.
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doing a lot, and I don't agree with it because again,
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let's think about the thing that you mentioned that you did,
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and I still have no idea if Robert Pattinson's was
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even true. And I feel like part of this is
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also a litmus test in the sense of it's very
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particular movie, where it's obviously leading and lending, which is
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a good thing. Conversation of how far do you think
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you are willing to accept a partner's wrongdoing? Are they
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apologetic for it? Do they feel like what they did
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was maybe wrong? And a lot of this I found
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that there's almost operates on like a flashback structure. The
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entire time, I thought that Zendeia's character was going to
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have just like a brief flashback to when she was
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a kid, but it kind of flashes to this sequence
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of events over and over. And I found this after
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a while kind of start to also tangentially be a
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character study on the dynamics of children in school and
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how if we let that go a little bit too
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unchecked for too long, that can lead to a dangerous path.
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interesting to me as well for it to show all
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of this imagery in a very evocative way, and admittedly
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sometimes in a very funny way. It's very contrasting to
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the life now. And if you want to say that
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it's in bad taste, I get it. But part of
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it is to prove a point. Part of it is
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to really state the specific feeling, the why, the almost
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kind of like the fact that we let this happen
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is almost ridiculous to a level of watching this girl
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go through that mentality, and how some of this could
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easily have been like we could have fixed this maybe
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earlier on and part of her whole thing where she
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says she didn't do it is because of something happening.
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because a different thing had happened that same day that
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was too similar. So that's why she didn't do it,
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which is kind of insane. But I think that the
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logic there is very much a teenage going through this
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thought process. I thought that was very true too, how
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a teenager would think about this specific kind of scenario
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and so after that lending to doing something else to
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that effect, and that kind of being her saving grace.
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would have found that piece in the first place, which
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I found really interesting in a deconstruction level of how
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Zendea's character is and Robert Pattinson's character in the more
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modern day is kind of having this like breakdown of
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accepting somebody's faults and accepting that the passes behind them.
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telling where he's constantly thinking about himself with the younger
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version of Zendeo. Whenever they're like outwalking, he's like envisioning
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her being a kid or he's envisioning, like, oh, she
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looks like this to me right now, and part of
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it's so ridiculous looking that there is an intentionality behind it.
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now this would probably be a case of just accepting
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somebody for, like we said, their faults and moving on
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and accepting this. I also think that the whole thing
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with the end where he nearly cheats on Zendeia right
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before their wedding, you get really frustrated with the character.
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You honestly kind of can't believe it, and you're like,
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come on, man, And then the whole argument is that like, oh,
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he didn't do it. I thought that was clever, again
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in a screenwriting perspective, to be like, oh, but he
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didn't follow through with it, so he still kissed her. Though,
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so I still think that, I mean moderately cheating. That's
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just that depends on who you ask. But I really
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liked that about this quite a bit. Also touching on this,
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Alana Heim's character just one more time, I want to say,
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is just aggravating part of you, Like, she plays that
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specific kind of character so well, and if you know
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that character, you've definitely met somebody like this in real life.
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It's very very true to the real world, and I
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thought that everybody here felt very lived in. I also loved,
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loved the way this was edited. I thought this was
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edited insanely well. I actually didn't know that it would
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be formatted like this. The whole opening where it's the
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wedding speech and him going through it with their actual
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event where they first met, is incredible. Some of it's
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edited almost like Family Guy, which I like Family Guy.
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I mean random, but I know, I know, But I
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still think that the kind of parallel back and forth,
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there's like a rhythm to it that is really really
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well orchestrated and well accomplished in the editing. The back
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and forth is just so good, honestly. And I also
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think that there's a lot of the way this is
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shot is fascinating because there's no magical realism in it
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or anything, but it feels almost kind of like they're
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there's so much panic happening through the entire thing. The
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third act is essentially a collection of just like the
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worst wedding ceremony you've ever seen, and it leading to
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all of that. There's an existential kind of dread throughout
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the entire thing because it's bubbling up, but you can't
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help but like not look away. And admittedly sometimes I
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do thrive in like kind of a awkward, hard to
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handle environment, So part of me is like enjoying watching this, Like,
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for example, I'm the type of person that like I
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saw in cut Gems and I did get like really
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anxious by it. But that's like comfortable for me just
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because of the idea of being anxious. It's just like
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an everyday thing and for me at least like every
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second of the day. But here just being in this
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kind of like cringe inducing like oh God, and you
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couldn't help it be like, but what are you going to?
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What's going to happen now after this? And overall, I
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if I were to dig into any negative, I would
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say that I would also like a little bit more
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of the character's relationship before they had run into their issues.
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I know that it's primarily about the drama that they're having,
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but I would have loved to have seen more of
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their relationship with each others and they and Robert Pattinson,
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they have a really good chemistry with each other, and
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I couldn't help but be like this feels like a
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real couple to me. I want to see the other
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stuff that they like discussed, what they were into, why
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they got along, what this rift was that happens that
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Robert Pattinson felt so kind of betrayed. But they even
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state they say, you latch onto things, you hyper fixate
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on things. You cannot get something out of your head
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until eventually it goes away. And unfortunately it's something I
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relate to. I get that mindset. I understand that because
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something will just pick at your brain over and over.
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character piece of writing, because he does act like the
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entire time, and part of you gets aggravated with him.
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You're like, dude, just like he kind of doesn't have
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a spine for a while, part of it gets frustrated
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with that. You're like, dude, just say something, like say something,
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because he has that like awkward laugh that he does
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over and over. And for me, that's the thing that
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I get, like, ugh, just like you're not helping your
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case out. There's one where he confronts the cousin out
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on the street and you're like, oh no, don't, don't,
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don't do that, and then he does still anyway, and
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you're like why, and then the next couple of minutes
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you're just like, don't say anything, and then he does.
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chaotic and really hard to watch, And I thought that
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was really fascinating in terms of the back and forth
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the whole produced by ari Astor, I was like, oh,
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of course it was. I have to say, his previous movie,
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Dream Scenario, I didn't love. I liked it just fine,
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but I thought that it didn't do enough with its concepts.
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Here he's definitely improved. I thought that not ari Astor.
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I'm gonna look up the director's name really quick while
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I talk about this, but I thought that the Dream
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Scenario was uncomfortable for a couple of scenes. But I
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think that here he really specifically gets into the crux
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of the messaging and what it's about a lot more,
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which I really really liked. Christopher Borgley, I believe, and
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you can very much feel that like not American influence
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in the filmmaking here, because it feels very much like
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a window into how the US thinks about things, specifically
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relationship dynamics, but overall I loved this. I have heard
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that some people say that they think it's in bad taste,
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which I mean all the respect to you if you
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found that and you hated it. But I do think
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that there's some stuff in here, regardless of what you
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think of the quality of it, is worth going over. Also,
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I thought personally that the ending was a slam dunk.
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The ending in the diner and the conversation I have
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with each other I thought was really touching actually and
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kind of beautiful. I'm gonna give this a score. I'm
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gonna give this a four and a half out of five.
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I loved this movie a lot. Even if you ended
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up end up not liking it, I still think you
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should see it regardless of whatever you come out of
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it thinking. I think that it's a really interesting movie
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to have a conversation about. Anyway, Thank you guys so
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much for listening and watching. I have a lot of
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stuff coming up, specifically on the TikTok as well. Please
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follow on somewhere between pod on TikTok to see this
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stuff on there. But again, thank you guys so much
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for listening and watching. I'll see you next time.
