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Hello and welcome to Shoot the Hostage with me, Sarah, and my partner Dan. We're a movie podcast and we cover eight films per season on a specific theme. Now, we swear we chat major spoilers and we occasionally cover triggering topics. So, please do use listener discretion. If you like what we do and want to support us, consider hitting five stars on Spotify or maybe subscribing or even reviewing on your platform of choice. We also have a Patreon with a free tier for lineups and updates and two paid tiers with extra cont. content and early adree uploads. Right, on with the show. Get loose. Woo! Get loose because I have to mentally prepare for this because because it's martyrs and you're going to make me think about martyrs.
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I am
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again
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and I'm going to make you talk about martyrs.
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I feel like I should do some yoga or something. Should I do the downward dog? Do you know how to do that?
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Yeah.
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Can you show me
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right now? Let's do some yoga. Let's do some pre-podcast yoga. Right, everybody ready, everybody? Right, let's get into it. D, how can we um how long can we go without talking about martyrs, do you think?
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Well, not very long cuz I'm going to steer you back on track very shortly.
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Oh, Sarah.
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Sarah, 1987 is a distant and comforting memory cuz this week we're turning to 2008's Martyrs by Pascal Loier. Is that how you pronounce it?
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Lojier.
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Loier. Okay. believe, but please don't quote me on that.
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Okay, before we go any further, um I had no idea how to pronounce that and then I listened to Jamie's podcast,
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Final Transmission, covered this a couple of years ago. Okay,
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so that was very helpful. Thank you, Jamie.
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Maybe I'll put a link in the description.
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Are you just going to reiterate all the points that they made? Yes.
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For the next hour.
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Yes. You could probably just stop listening to this and go and listen to theirs. Just go straight to the source, you know, cut out the middleman.
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I think you should listen to both.
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I'm I everything I say is going to be completely original and um no, I've done a bit of research and I do have opinions about this film. So, I am actually, all jokes aside, I am looking forward to getting into it. Um getting into to this normal movie made by normal people for normal people.
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Are you just going to make me feel bad this episode? I love the fact that you bring up 1987, yet that's the year that Hellraiser came out, which also happens to be one of your favorites. And also movie.
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Normal movie made for normal people featuring a skinless dude.
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Frank,
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so come on.
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Yeah, I know. It just this just feels just more real, doesn't it? And I think that's the difference for me anyway.
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Okay,
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but maybe we'll maybe we'll get into that. Sarah, we didn't have to watch Martyrs, you know,
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didn't we?
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No.
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What should we have watched?
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We could have watched we could have watched um Ghost Dad, the Bill Cosby film.
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I would rather watch Marts.
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I know. I know, but if you're going to watch a Bill Cosby film,
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no, don't watch Bill Cosby films.
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But if you're going to
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don't
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watch one where he's dead,
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right?
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I mean,
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if you have to gun to your head, you got to pick a Bill Cosby movie to watch. Which one is it?
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It's a strong argument, but I'd rather none.
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Okay.
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I would use the I would just pull the trigger on the gun myself so I didn't have to watch a Bill Cosby movie.
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You're done.
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Yeah.
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Not even Francis Ford Coppa as Jack.
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Take me out. No, especially not Francis Francis Ford couple is Jack.
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Was it was Bill Cosby in Megalopoulos?
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He might as well have been.
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I think he played the cloud hand.
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I think he'd been jailed by that point. Dan.
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Yeah.
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Good. Is he still alive?
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Bill Cosby? Yeah, sadly. Yeah.
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Is he really?
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I believe so.
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How?
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Um, people with money tend to stay alive a little bit longer.
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That's true. That's true. There's a whole uh when it comes to wealth, there's a whole division there. Uh, you might call it class, you might call call it uh Some sometimes sometimes there's
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different peoples in societies and sometimes they torture people to get answers for research they want to do.
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Are you trying to bring it back to the movie?
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All right. So first qu my very first question to you.
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You couldn't have Ghost Dad, right? So you decided
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I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this
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because we couldn't you wanted it but we couldn't find it streaming anywhere.
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Um so you decided to go for Martr,
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the natural second choice.
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Yeah. Um Why?
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Why did I choose Martyrs? Well, this was the film that I basically engineered the entire season around.
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Ah, this is the keystone episode.
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It is.
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This is the anchor point. And why did I choose it? Firstly, I came to Marts a little bit late. I was aware of its reputation and I delayed watching it for a long time because of its reputation. But I think I did myself a disservice because when I did watch it, I was like, "Oh, that's pretty good. gnarly as hell. But I was like, that's that was good. And then I watched it again at the start of this year
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cuz I just for some reason had a hankering to watch something challenging and that seemed like it would fit the bill. Um, and I loved it.
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Ended up absolutely loving it.
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So when did you finally take the plunge to watch it then?
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I want to say about 10 years ago.
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Okay. So, it had been out for a little while.
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Eight or nine years?
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Well, this was a first time watch for me.
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No s***.
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No s***. No s***. Sherlock,
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is this something you would have ever chosen to watch?
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I probably would never have gotten around to this. No.
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No. I suspected as much.
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It wasn't really on my radar. I don't think I really heard of it until I probably about the time that you watched it actually.
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Like it's not something that was ever on my radar and then I heard about it and thought Hm. That's a movie I'm probably never going to watch. Um, so I guess I mean that's we say this often, but uh sometimes like if I
do a if I do a video game season, I'm going to put on Need for Speed because you're never going to want to sit down and watch that with me.
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You want to watch Masters? I did not want to watch Masters. Let's put it on a season. So he has to watch Marters. Yes.
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Did that factor in at all?
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What? Just the desire to get you to watch it?
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Yeah. Because Do you have did you have an inkling and I'm not going to give away my thoughts on this movie. Okay.
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Um, but did you have an idea of what I might think about this? I think you knew what my opinion was about maybe like torture p*** in general and that sort of thing, but and I'm not saying that that this is that.
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We'll discuss this really.
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I think it could comfortably fit into the torture p*** genre.
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Okay. Um, we we'll we'll get into that cuz I want to explore what torture p*** means.
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Okay. I think there's a lot more to it than just that.
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But yeah, definite elements of it.
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Okay. Did you have an idea of what I might once I'd watched it what I might think about this film?
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you just It could have gone either way.
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Well, no. I mean, so the fact that you hadn't watched it and I thought I felt like I wanted you to watch it was definitely kind of the crux of why I chose it. But that's that makes it sound really mean, like I'm just bullying you and making you watch films you would absolutely never choose to. watch on a normal day. But
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you like to challenge me sometimes.
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I do sometimes, but also when I've done that in the past, like a good example is Waking Fright.
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That's a film with a certain reputation. And I feel like that's something you probably would never have chosen to watch off your own back, but that you ended up loving.
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And the the same was sort of true of Marty. Like it could go either way with you. You were a bit unpredictable with your tastes sometimes.
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But never let them know your next move. Um, but I think because of some of the big questions that this movie asks and some of the subject matter and the fact that it at least tries to be profound
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that you might get something out of it. Yeah,
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it wasn't just an exercise in let's torture Dan.
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There was more to it. There was more to the decision than that.
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so. It took you So, it took you a decade to watch it. You Sarah watches it. You liked it. I liked it. Yeah. But I was in no rush to revisit. I felt like it was maybe a one and done for me at that point in time.
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second viewing, I got so much more out of it because I knew I knew what to expect. So I wasn't sat there kind of anticipating the most horrific violence I'd ever seen on screen. And I think that's it's because of its reputation. And I'm not saying it doesn't deserve its reputation, but I think it sort of lives in this weird kind of bubble. of infamy when actually it's just it's a really good movie.
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I think a lot of people put off watching it because of that which is a shame.
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I think and I was in that crowd as well and and it's funny it's like the just the title masters as well feels just very
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Yeah. And and it conjures up a certain image in your mind you're thinking about me personally I'm thinking about like crucifixions and like the horriblest s*** to happen.
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Um people's skin fall off like or falling. I don't know. Gravity doesn't do that. Um
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and there is a lot of really horrendous stuff in this. Like I'm not going to this this clearly is not a film for everybody. It is quite rightly part of the new French extremity movement. Extremity being the key word there. It is an extreme film and it does earn that reputation. But I think to write it off as just that is unfair.
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I think there is there's way more to this film
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than like Hostel. Like Hostel seems like the obvious
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comparison and that's the one that I've seen most when it comes to my research. I know. Well, it's a common one because Loier was inspired partly by it.
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Oh, don't say that. Eli Roth's already got a big enough ego. He doesn't need to hear that.
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I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing for Elie Roth.
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Elie I think um Elie I think uh and I don't know this is like the general consensus and opinions online probably all from
Jamie's podcast to be fair um like it was not necessarily endorsing that or wanting to recreate that but giving the violence a point rather than it just being about the violence. So in that respect I like that we're trying to take something that I I don't really have any time for. I can't sit there and watch a a hostel. Not anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but I don't think I don't think I knew that I didn't really enjoy it. I just like, "Oh, cool." Horror.
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I was never really into the torture for torture's sake, which is
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it seems strange to say because I do like quite a lot of extreme horror films that are quite gratuitous in their violence and sex.
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So, it seems odd for me to draw the line there.
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I I need another reason. I can't watch a film just because It's violent.
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Which is why Yeah. That's why I don't get on with the terrifying movies.
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I haven't seen them, but I've heard that, you know, it's mostly about the violence, so I'm sort of less interested.
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But, um, yeah, there needs to be some another element to it. Like, there needs to be a point to the violence. If if you're going to put the characters through this, if you're going to put us through this, then there has to be a point. Like, I don't understand why you would just want to feel that way. And I guess everyone feels differently when they watch these films. But for me, they make me feel a bit sick in the stomach,
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and I don't want that to be for no reason. I guess some people just like, "Yeah, put the popcorn on."
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I I think I went through a phase of that in my late teens, early to mid20ies, but I I got past that quite quickly and now I have very little time for it. They don't It doesn't always have to be a point. It doesn't have to always be a message, but it has to at least be really well made, really well written. If it's just going to be, you know, gratuitous violence. I I want it to be a piece of art.
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Not just like artless trash, which ironically describes the terrify movies. Pun intended.
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Fair. A lot of lot of terrify fans out there. Sarah, you
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to be honest, when people tell me that they like the terrifier films, I view that as kind of a red flag.
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Do you I do because the first one's just awful. It's really poorly made. Like
shockingly poorly made even for a low budget. Even accounting for the low budget.
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Um and it's just just misogyn misogynistic violence one after the other. Like how many ways can we torture women?
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um the fact that he screwed over some of his crew members during the making of of those films. I have no time for them.
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Okay, that's fair. Whereas in this film, all of the women were treated really well
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and the director is not a piece of s***. Yeah, we'll get to that.
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This is art. And like
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Terrifier just features art.
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treating your crew like a piece of s*** is never ever justified. Even if people go, "Oh, but they did this was good. No, f*** off.
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No. And I'm including Yeah, I'm including the greats in that. Like Kubri is the probably the most well-known example, right? Um Yeah. Just treat your cast and crew with a modicum of respect. It's really not that hard.
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Yeah, absolutely. Loier. So Loier directed and wrote written this.
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He written this.
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He written this.
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He written it
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and he was very depressed at the time. Couldn't tell.
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Couldn't tell.
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Yeah. He was um He was basically suicidal in his own well near suicidal in his words.
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nihilistic.
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it has not got a favorable view of the human race.
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Yeah. Yes. It definitely doesn't have a favorable view of the human race, but feels kind of real. And maybe that's part of the reason again why it's like uh depressing. I guess but then it does end as well. There are there I think it's clever enough that it gives you like a modicum of hope. Do you know what I mean by that? I don't know why I'm talking cryptically. Like I can mention the end. We're talking about the film now. Like when she reaches she look sees the lights like is that hallucination? Like you could read it either way or is that heaven? Don't know.
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I don't have a smidgen of hope by the end of this movie. I read it very Definitely. Obviously.
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So, I'm interested to to talk about that a little bit later.
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All right. Sounds good.
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Um 2.8 million budget.
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Box office 1.1 million.
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everyone's going to see this. Like, you know,
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everyone's you you got to see this movie. You'll vomit on a cat.
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Don't vomit on a cat. Poor cat.
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And I going back to directors that sort of torture their cast and crew. I did read somewhere that they were kind of sequestered for a couple months before shooting and while they were shooting they were completely isolated from the rest of the cast and crew to sort of elevate their unease and like inform the performances and apparently it was really really stressful and at least one of the actresses kind of has beef with Pascal Loier like said she would never work with him ever again.
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Um, but one of the lead actresses, I want to say Taylor Hixon, but that's from memory so don't quote me. Um, she was there was a scene where she was supposed to kind of throw her herself through a plate glass window, like hit her head on a a a window in a door and it was supposed to be prop glass and I It wasn't. So, she's now forever permanently facially disfigured as a result of Loier's carelessness.
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I can't imagine that I'm going to get some of these images out of my brain ever. But maybe maybe it will just squeeze it out and I just won't in 3 years you go more smarters. Oh, no. I never want to never seen it. Not going to do it now.
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and then 20 years later trying to justify why you like it on a podcast. for the right reasons. Um, so would you say is this is is this film actually torture p***? Would you say then?
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which is fine. You don't have to. That's what we're here to do.
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I can do maths. I can add. Um Yeah. And I It's an odd choice. But it kind of works and it's very I would say this film's influences are kind of all over it. You've already mentioned Possession and Hostel and Halloween, but also that opening really reminds me of um I don't know, stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Yeah, that's true. And she But she thinks about it, though, doesn't she? She doesn't do it immediately. She's having second thoughts. Bless her.
411
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She's not just like a coldblooded killer. This is kind of like a revenge mission.
412
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This is This is her trying to put her trauma to bed.
413
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Yeah. Yeah,
414
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I think she is a cold blooded kid.
415
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Yeah, I'm not saying it's ideal. It's She's not doing a good thing.
416
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No.
417
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Although some might say that the the two parents not being in the world is kind of a net positive maybe.
418
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On on reflection, yes. But at that point, we don't know that.
419
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That's true.
420
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And when particularly when she's having second thoughts about killing um the boy played by Zavia Dolan, who's in It Chapter 2.
421
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Oh, okay.
422
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And the beast.
423
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--> 00:07:03,000
Zavier Dolan. Oh, yeah. Of course, he was in he was um in it chapter 2 right at the start.
424
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Yes.
425
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Yeah.
426
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Yes. Um
427
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is he also a filmmaker?
428
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I don't know.
429
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I think he might be.
430
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I'm not sure.
431
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I know the name. Anyway, carry on.
432
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But Lucy, so Lucy takes out um Antoine and then does she phone Anna and Anna's driving the red Mini and she's like, I'm going to have a baguette.
433
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Yeah.
434
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And uh
435
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she's French. Yeah. And then she just comes to Anna's um comes to Lucy's aid. I wouldn't say rescue because there is no rescue in this film.
436
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No, I think she's they've been friends for at least sort of 15 16 years at this point.
437
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Friends.
438
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Friends slashlovers. Unsure.
439
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I question.
440
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There's a bit of a question mark over it for me.
441
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How do you There is. Yeah. For me too because there's that moment in after the killing They're doing it's operation cleanup time. Yep.
442
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Quick phone Harvey Kel.
443
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Um and Anna goes in for a kiss on Lucy, but it's not appreciated. Lucy doesn't want it. So at that in that moment, my thinking was, "Oh, it's unrequited love."
444
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But what do you think that possibly there is a relationship there? And it was just like, "Not now."
445
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Yeah, now is not the time.
446
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You got me covered in clar.
447
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I think they probably are in a relationship. Oh, that's That's the side that I've settled on because I was sort of in the same frame of mind as you the first and second time that I watched it. I was like, "Yeah, it does it does seem like maybe there's something unrequited go unrequited going on here." But then I know a lot of people in the online sort of movie critic space have claimed it as a bit of a queer horror because of their relationship.
448
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And also, you get that phone call between Anna and her mom
449
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where she sort of describes Lucy as um she calls her a pervert and a bad influence I think.
450
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Yeah.
451
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Which especially for the time that the film is set would make sense
452
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if she was being a little bit homophobic about that. Like she's leading her daughter astray.
453
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Yeah.
454
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Um so yeah, I think probably there is some sort of romantic relationship there.
455
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There I feel like I I think you're probably I think you're probably right, but my feeling at the time when I saw it is it looks It looks oneided.
456
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Yeah, it did.
457
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But there is which you quite rightly pointed out that moment with Anna on the phone to her mom and she's very derogatory about Lucy and it is a homophobic um viewpoint that she has. And I don't know, maybe maybe they were in a relationship and it's the fact that Lucy is so focused on her trauma. and trying to achieve um get some sort of resolution or answers or revenge or call it whatever you like that
458
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that she's just not available at all emotionally to
459
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accept any sort of love and and return any sort of love because how can you when
460
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all you're thinking about is blowing someone's head off of a shotgun. How are you capable of
461
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I don't
462
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I think her not being in a relationship is the correct move.
463
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I think you need to work your s*** out before
464
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Yes, she needs some intense therapy. But also, it's not that she's so single-mindedly set on this revenge mission. She's also being somewhat haunted,
465
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which is all in her head.
466
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It's a strange choice. Obviously, it's um it's an element that's introduced in order to sort of make you think that maybe there's something supernatural going on.
467
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So, you think it's just a uh a red herring?
468
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I think it's a bit of a misdirection. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it was it was confusing at the time. I'm watching it and I think I even said to you, I I is are we dealing with demons in this film?
469
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Yeah.
470
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Because um
471
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or is it fight club?
472
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Yeah, I did say is it fight club tonight?
473
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And I think the answer to that is sometimes.
474
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Yeah.
475
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Yes. And yes.
476
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Yeah. So, I mean, if I had a complaint about this film, it would be that maybe there's a few too many elements in that first half.
477
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Okay.
478
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But it did keep me guessing.
479
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And perhaps on a second viewing, not that I not ask.
480
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Not that I want to.
481
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Well, we own it now.
482
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Yeah. Um but I don't know. Maybe maybe it will just play slightly differently if I know what or have an idea what I think this is cuz it just it's also quite ambiguous. It doesn't give you
483
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any answ.
484
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You don't think it's ambiguous by the fact that you don't understand what happens at the end? Oh, not necessarily. Right. So, the end could be read as ambiguous. Yeah, I I appreciate that. But we were talking about the woman that's sort of like haunting Lucy,
485
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right? Okay.
486
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That I don't think is ambiguous at all.
487
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You think that that is just
488
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it's in her head. Pure trauma.
489
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It's her trauma. Yeah. Yeah. Um
490
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for a few reasons. Obviously, we see her at one point from her perspective, the the woman creature. I mean, she's sort of introduced as this like anim animalistic creature, but really it's just another tortured woman.
491
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She's she's credited as um creature, I think.
492
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Is she?
493
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Yeah.
494
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Because it's somebody who is also locked up at the same time that Lucy was as a child. And it's her guilt basically. I mean, this whole film is sort of riddled with Catholic guilt.
495
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Yeah. There's a lot of religion stuff going this
496
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which is another big box tick for me.
497
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Yeah.
498
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Religious horror. Yes.
499
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You mentioned that this could fit into a religion thing.
500
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Yeah, I think it absolutely could. Um but yeah, we so we see it from Lucy's perspective and the the woman is sort of opening her her veins up. She's running um a blade down her arms.
501
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And at that point, I'm thinking, "Oh, no. This is it.
502
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I thought this was the point." Yeah.
503
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Oh, right. Right. I see.
504
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I thought about and I believe I mentioned it at the time. I thought about Arnold cutting his down his arm to rip off his
505
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his uh his skin to reveal the the robot hand and thinking, "H,
506
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is this in the Terminator universe? The answer is no.
507
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No, it's not. It's not.
508
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She's just crazy. Um, but yeah, but so basically her her deep-seated trauma that's been left to fester this whole time that's been untreated has sent her mad.
509
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Yeah.
510
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It's really tragic. And we sort of see that she's just imagining this. It's her guilt that's manifesting this woman that she couldn't save.
511
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Um, and she kills herself. Then we see, you know, the flipped perspective and it is just her doing those things to erself.
512
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Yeah.
513
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And then she ultimately in the garden slices her own throat.
514
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Yeah. It's it's an interesting choice. Like I like I said like I didn't really see where this was going.
515
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And then
516
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how could you?
517
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Yeah.
518
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It's a pretty original story,
519
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I suppose. So then also it was surprising when Lucy did off herself
520
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because I was like I thought this was the lead. What's going to happen now?
521
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And it's like what the halfway point?
522
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Yeah.
523
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Yeah.
524
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And I was like okay what's are we are we just are we coasting downhill now? Like what's the situation now? This is wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. And then the organization's hurt.
525
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Can we talk about Anna having zero self-preservation
526
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there? You couldn't pay me enough money to go down like if I was in a house and there would it was covered in blood. My best friend had just killed a family of four then herself. The the entire place is a crime scene. I'd be a bit keener to get out of there. Yeah,
527
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I'd be a bit more concerned that my DNA was everywhere. Oh, no. It's It's 1986. Maybe that's less of a concern, but still,
528
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it will be soon. It's not.
529
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And then she kind of opens the cupboard and sees that there's like um a whole other part of the the building.
530
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Yeah.
531
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And then she just keeps going down. She drops the stairs down that little chute and she goes down and it's just this
532
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the most sterile looking clinical kind of series of of hallways and rooms and on the side of the walls there are just the most grotesque images of people who have been martyed.
533
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Yeah.
534
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Who've been tortured and they've got this sort of unseeing slashallseeing look on their faces.
535
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Yeah. Sort of like a vacantly satisfied Yeah. look. Weird. It's weird.
536
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Like they're not there anymore. Yeah.
537
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Um, yeah, alarm bells would be ringing.
538
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Yeah. Red flags.
539
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I I don't
like to victim blame, but a lot of this could have been avoided if she'd just gotten out of that house.
540
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Get out of there. U, I I know. Yeah, I agree. But, um, it didn't feel like it was out of character for her. Like I I I felt like she was portrayed in a way like a a really caring person, like a compassionate person. person,
541
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but also quite brave
542
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and brave.
543
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She went above and beyond for Lucy. She was burying a family that she just obliterated.
544
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But when it turned out that one of them was still breathing, she did try to save her. So like,
545
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yeah, and I guess that's why she went down there cuz maybe there's someone else down here that I need to save. And she does,
546
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you know, she tries to anyway. She attempts to. And then there's that beautiful moment when
547
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um she's bathing her and it was beautiful moment briefly. They hold hands and then she's yanking bolts out of her brain.
548
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O yeah.
549
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Good lord. And I thought I was like, "Oh no, I thought this was over." Um
550
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No, they just gave you a breather for like 30 seconds.
551
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Yeah.
552
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And then and then you get all of this um the organization stuff and then I I suppose I wasn't really expecting it to be a cult movie as well.
553
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Okay.
554
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Like you again like another theme, you could fit this into a cult theme.
555
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No problemmo.
556
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That stuff definitely came out of left field when I watched it for the first time. Even though it's literally called Martyrs. I don't think I was thinking too closely about the title when I was watching it.
557
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And I think that's because it's just sort of a bit of an assault on the senses.
558
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Like you you aren't given much time to stop and think about things or, you know, get your thoughts together before the next horrific thing is happening.
559
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But yeah, I'm I'm very glad it did go in that direction.
560
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It made it all the more interesting.
561
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It was interesting because I mean there's all that mystery around at the beginning where you're not sure why Lucy was taken and then the answers are given to you at the about the twothirds in I guess and I thought it was very interesting like there's this organization there's this cult religion I don't know what to call it really everything all of it
562
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most people online refer to it as an organization
563
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yeah and what they're trying to achieve is is find out if there's an afterlife
564
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and what it is what is it and a film that I thought about. Have you seen the um the Jason Seagull movie?
565
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Where's this going? Are you going to say Another Earth? Is it Another Earth? No.
566
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No. No.
567
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What am I thinking of?
568
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Um you're Another Earth is the um the OA What's Marlin, I think, isn't it?
569
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Um no, Jason Seagull was in that movie um The Muppets.
570
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No, the Discovery, I think it was called. Okay.
571
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2017. No, I don't know that one.
572
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Robert Redford proves that there is an afterlife.
573
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Does he?
574
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Yes.
575
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Has the news media been informed of this?
576
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Uh, they were informed of it in the movie,
577
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right?
578
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And and that film is sort of about I'm not going to spoil it. Um, all of that's in the synopsis.
579
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Does somebody get flayed?
580
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Well, that's where the similarities end,
581
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right? Okay.
582
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You understand? Um, but it's it's similar in that they're trying to figure out if there's an afterlife
583
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in the Robert Redford one. They prove that there is and It's about how what that means for us, how that affects us. Uh does it give meaning, remove meaning? Different for everybody? What are you going to do now?
584
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Okay.
585
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And it's
586
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sounds interesting.
587
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It's interesting. I I didn't I didn't love it, but it was it had a very interesting central point theme um exploring that sort of thing. And I felt the same about this. And when we got to that point, uh I was it was a welcome like oh I suppose I was like oh we are doing something there's a reason to there there is actually a specific reason for all this violence not that
588
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they should be doing that s*** like
589
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to a certain degree
590
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that doesn't make it okay
591
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doesn't make it okay don't go around skinning people
592
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no
593
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um and I'll go on record and say
594
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that's day one stuff skin somebody
595
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that's the first thing you learn at school
596
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yeah
597
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that's how you do a potato print don't flare anybody.
598
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Yeah. But
599
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yeah, I just want to I want to go back ever so slightly because you were talking about the the the midway point where Lucy kills herself.
600
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She takes herself out of the game. What did you think was going to happen at that point? Cuz you said like you kind of were thinking, well, what what more can happen?
601
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But I think there's a couple of points at which this movie sort of lulls you into a false sense of security. And that's definitely one of them,
602
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the beginning and another one of the comparisons that I was going to make earlier but forgot. It's actually the the music at the start of the score. It's very sort of gental. It's quite um I guess it's somewhat era appropriate given that this is effectively a period piece. Um not the first thing anybody would use to describe it, I'm sure.
603
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No.
604
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Um but it reminds me of Cannibal Holocaust because Cannibal Holocaust has this absolutely beautiful sort of melodic score that feels like it should be more at home. in something like Picnic at Hanging Rock, like an ethereal kind of
605
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another normal movie.
606
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Another normal movie. Yeah. Nobody gets played
607
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that we know of.
608
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No, nothing happens.
609
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f*** off.
610
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So good.
611
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Is Thin Bananas the honestly the thing that I remember most about
612
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Thin Bananas old rock.
613
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Um but yeah, it it sort of utilizes a similar technique here.
614
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Yeah, I suppose. So I didn't really think about the music.
615
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It's quite out of place. case for the for the film that it ends up being.
616
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Yeah. Yeah. I I didn't know where this was going at the halfway point. Like the organization turns up. I'm sort of I guess pleasantly surprised that they're doing a an exploration of the afterlife type thing cuz I I find that fascinating and I just wasn't expecting that sort of existential angle in this
617
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and that was really interesting to me.
618
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Well, that's the thing that I thought you would get out of this movie.
619
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Yeah. And that's the thing that I wondered you might think that I would like about this film
620
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and you were correct.
621
00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000
Good.
622
00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000
I I um I liked this.
623
00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000
You liked the film.
624
00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000
I like I I like
625
00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000
I I think that this is a very very good movie.
626
00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000
Oh,
627
00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000
I think this is a great movie.
628
00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000
Wow.
629
00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000
It's very challenging.
630
00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000
Yes.
631
00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000
I don't think I want to watch it again, but I might.
632
00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000
I said that. you might come round.
633
00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000
Yeah. And I think I think a lot of it I think all of it really is I mean firstly it's made incredibly well. Like the effects are great. The performances are amazing. It's it's so original.
634
00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000
Even if he did elicit the performances through not entirely ethical means.
635
00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000
Yeah. There's another way we could have achieved that, I'm sure.
636
00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000
But they were excellent. And also some stuff I've never seen before. Like you said, it's made really well. There were like the one shot that always jumps out at me is like the corpse mounted camera when she's dragging one of the bodies into the garden and the the camera is literally mounted on the body.
637
00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,000
Yeah,
638
00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000
I don't remember ever having seen that before, but it was quite effective.
639
00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000
Yeah,
640
00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000
definitely some creative stuff here.
641
00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000
Definitely some creative stuff. It's so it's it's very memorable as well. Like um
642
00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,000
yeah, just with the existential stuff when that's introduced, is there an afterlife? I'm like this is very interesting actually.
643
00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000
And Mad Madmoiselle rocks up and she's like, yeah, I'm going to torture you cuz any glasses
644
00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000
cuz I want cuz cuz evil people wear tiny glasses.
645
00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,000
Ain't that the truth? Preach.
646
00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000
Yeah. Uh she's like I'm going to talk to you cuz I want to know if there's an afterlife.
647
00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000
Yeah. I'm not going to offer myself to be Martin.
648
00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000
No.
649
00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000
But when we find out I promise pinky promise I will tell you all about it.
650
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000
Spoiler alert.
651
00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000
And won't do myself.
652
00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000
She doesn't do that.
653
00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000
With a gun.
654
00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000
Yeah.
655
00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000
And I thought that was a that was another f*** you mean quick
656
00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000
quick death.
657
00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,000
Yeah.
658
00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000
The thing that she has robbed everybody else of.
659
00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000
Yeah.
660
00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000
Yeah. So, at that point I there's at that point I'm starting to see when the organization turns up a few potential things about what this movie is about. I guess that's when the meaning starts for me. Yeah.
661
00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000
Because I'm starting to understand, okay, maybe there's a point here. What is the point?
662
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000
You bring in religion. You bring in um class to to a degree. Like these people are obviously very well off.
663
00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000
They've got infrastructure and benefactors. Um, and they're all wearing a nice roll neck and making a grl smoothie.
664
00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000
Oh, the hummus gr
665
00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000
Marble Island. Yeah,
666
00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,000
but yeah, they're choosing
667
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000
it. That's what it looked like. It looked disgusting.
668
00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000
I like hummus.
669
00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000
I like hummus, but it they found a way to make it look unappetizing in this.
670
00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000
Wasn't chunky enough. I like chunk. Put ice cubes in your hummus, folks.
671
00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000
Yes. Um, you've made me forget what where I was going with that now. You derailed me with hummus talk.
672
00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000
Sorry. Sorry. We were talking about hummus and gr.
673
00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000
Yeah.
674
00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000
Before that,
675
00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000
I I I was bringing up the class
676
00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000
Yes.
677
00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000
element of it.
678
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000
So, there is a definite class divide going on here, which is something I really enjoy seeing in film. It's It's something that's been explored a lot in in recent years, and I did sort of get a bit bored of seeing, oh, rich people doing
679
00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000
It was trendy for a while again, wasn't it?
680
00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000
Yeah. But it was always the wrong people making them. Like I want to see those movies. I want to see an Eat the Rich movie that's made by actual workingclass people and not the rich themselves.
681
00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000
It just felt weird, you know. Um but in this case, yeah, there there is an element of that, but they're clearly choosing people to martyr based on are they going to be missed? You know, elements like that.
682
00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000
Yeah.
683
00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000
Um have they suffered already in life? How easy will they may be to get to that point.
684
00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000
I think like how how can we break this person?
685
00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,000
Yeah. And it it so happens that they believe that women are more likely to um become martyrs because of their tolerance for pain. I
believe was that the
686
00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000
I think that was the indication. Yeah. I don't know if they ever came I don't think they outright said it's because of their capacity for pain, but I think that was what they were hinting at. Yeah.
687
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000
Okay. So, you have um I mean you have that the fact that they were probably yeah I mean they were in children's homes in the beginning you know there is an element of them planning uh I I guess trying to get people to do although them capturing Anna was a complete accident
688
00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000
well yeah she came to them
689
00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,000
in essence but still she was there so
690
00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,000
it's definitely it's definitely saying what is it saying about class band don't do class
691
00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000
um Absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. Like the fact that they've got all this power and that's how they're choosing to wield it by making innocent people suffer.
692
00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,000
You you have access to all of these resources. How are you going to choose to spend them?
693
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000
Yeah.
694
00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000
And
695
00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000
don't start a nonprofit. Just, you know, start torturing people in a the basement of a really affluent house
696
00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000
and normal.
697
00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000
It's all for the benefit of one person ultimately. And I suppose that is where the capitalism angle comes in. This these are all things like I was like, "Okay, what is this film about?" There was like several things that started ticking over in my head at that point.
698
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000
So, what you're saying is that Madmoiselle is Elon Musk.
699
00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000
Yeah.
700
00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000
He's definitely got people in a basement somewhere. Allegedly
701
00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000
for legal reasons.
702
00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000
Definitely. Allegedly.
703
00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000
Yeah.
704
00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000
I'll put I might edit one of those words out. Which one?
705
00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000
Um Well, look, your name goes out on this, too. So, if I get sued, you get sued.
706
00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000
Yeah. All right. I consider it all.
707
00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000
Okay.
708
00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000
I Yeah. So, I uh the the class, you know, you reach a certain level. Maybe it's not, maybe I'm just more talking about um your financial standing here, but you reach a certain point, you don't need to work anymore. You live off the money that you have that's making you more money, and you just don't need to do anything really. Um so, how do you choose to spend that time? Well, I can do whatever I want, and I What is the left to know. I I've done everything. I've seen everything. I need to know if there's an afterlife. So, I'm going to make everybody else suffer and I'm going to pay for all of these things just for my own my own benefit.
709
00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000
Well, yeah. If you can buy anything that you want in the world,
710
00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,000
you're going to look for meaning in things that you can't purchase.
711
00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000
Yeah.
712
00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:52,000
There are very few things that aren't for sale, but the human experience and
713
00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000
somebody's life is is not one of them anymore, thankfully.
714
00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,000
I suppose that's the other thing, isn't it? It's like the um how you you reach that point. How do you choose to spend it ultimately? Like like you were saying, ultimate power corrupts. Absolutely.
715
00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000
But also boredom.
716
00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000
Yeah. Boredom and just just Yeah. When you're you're trying to so desperately to find meaning like a lot of people don't have the luxury of having the time to think about what everything means. Like I think everyone should to a degree consider things and just think
717
00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000
Yeah.
718
00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000
critically about things. Me, me too. But particularly in this day and age, late stage capitalism, you know, cost of living rises, seems like every other month,
719
00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000
a lot of it's just about getting through the day. So, yeah, that is kind of a a perk of the rich.
720
00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000
Yeah. And was there was there were there hints that the organization was in with the police in this maybe it was just a feeling I had.
721
00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me. I mean, I think that's true in real life. They've always got like corrupt officials in their back pockets, haven't they? These people.
722
00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,000
The the the police are human beings and human beings can be corrupted. Just so, you know, no matter your organization, there's going to be some corruption in it. Um but I just got the impression that particularly in this movie that the organization was was um there's that there's that line from the father who's trying to convince Antoine to not be a pastry chef and to in fact become a lawyer. And his exact phrase was it opens a lot of doors.
723
00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,000
And How I read into that in retrospect was that he knows a lot of people. They're all in bed together. They're all giving each other brown paper bags full of money and slapping each other on the back and then doing a four iron at the golf club.
724
00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000
Make some quissants.
725
00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,000
Just make a Just eat those f****** quissasants you got. Shut up and stop torturing people.
726
00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,000
Stay happy and make a pan of chocolate.
727
00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000
Have a Yeah. I wish I had a pan of chocolate when we were watching
this. That would have cheered me up. I don't
728
00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000
I was just going to say like of all the things I wish I was eating during this disgusting movie.
729
00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000
That's fair. I don't know if I could have could have held anything down actually.
730
00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000
Um, so is it about capitalism? Is it about class? Is it about religion? Is it about the patriarchy?
731
00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000
Personally, I think those are all really valid readings of this film. From what I've read, uh, Pascal Loier did intend it to be like a bleak commentary on grief and guilt um, and Catholicism.
732
00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000
I don't know about the other stuff. But I I really like the capitalism reading.
733
00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000
I think it's all there. I think you can read a lot into it. And that's another another thing that I think is interesting about this,
734
00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000
especially when you mention the patriarchy because there's so much internalized misogyny particularly in older women. So the fact that Madmois Madmoiselle is like at the zenith of this organization.
735
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000
Yeah.
736
00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000
But still represents the patriarchy.
737
00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000
It is it was an interesting choice to cast that character as a woman.
738
00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000
I think It did. I mean, I suppose the obvious choice would have been to cast guy.
739
00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000
Yeah. I think it just changed the dynamics somewhat.
740
00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000
It does a bit. It and it and it and it I suppose it highlights more about the um internalized misogyny. Like I I don't know. Anyone could be
741
00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000
misogynistic. Doesn't matter who you are, obviously.
742
00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000
Yeah.
743
00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000
But it feels like a more interesting choice to make her um she's the matriarchet. And
744
00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000
and also I don't I don't like films particular the ones that are intended to have some sort of feminist perspective. I really hate it when it's as black and white as men bad, women good, cuz that's not the world. That's never going to be reality. So, it's nice to have Yes, our protagonists,
745
00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000
although they don't do very well in the film. They don't fare very well. They're decent people. Lucy obviously kills people, but that's sort of informed by the bad things that were done to her.
746
00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000
And she was right.
747
00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000
Yeah. were I mean the kids were the bad guys question mark but the the adults she she was correct on who they were.
748
00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000
Yeah. So I prefer a film that's sort of shades of gray. So I like the fact that the
749
00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000
the head of the big bad was um was a woman as well.
750
00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just I don't know to me it just screams you give someone all of this power and this these resources then it can it's only going to be a bad thing.
751
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,000
Mhm.
752
00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000
It's it can only go one way. And it felt like um latest stage capitalism in a way like it felt like she represented you might say Elon Musk when he eventually buys everything and maybe the pe all the people that came to this it felt like they were sort of celebrating a wake I suppose that they were expecting awake and they
753
00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000
they were all in black weren't they?
754
00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000
Yeah.
755
00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000
Yeah. It it looked veryalerial. I never know how to pronounce that word. I did such a good job.
756
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000
Um I think what I'm trying to say is that Madmoiselle is Wayan Utani and everyone that was at the wake is like I don't know Nike.
757
00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000
Okay.
758
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000
Um name another Warner Brother.
759
00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,000
Just one just one of the Warner Brothers.
760
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,000
Warner Brothers. The other one went to Paramount, didn't they? Bastard.
761
00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000
No, that's depressed me even more.
762
00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000
Jeff Bezos is definitely there.
763
00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000
Jeff's Jeff's there. Yeah, he's just a floating head in a jar at that point.
764
00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000
Um he got still got a hair transplant for some reason though. Um, yeah. So, it's interesting. This film is about a lot of things. I think I I at least saw a lot of things in it. I think it's a very challenging film. That kind of goes without saying. I don't think anyone's going to disagree with me there.
765
00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000
Well, all right then, on that point, I have a question. What did you find to be like the hardest thing to to watch?
766
00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000
For me, the hardest thing to watch was the when the the big guy is beating up Anna. Same. Same. It's so Oh, it's I was going to say it's so weird. It's not really. It makes perfect sense, but the fact that I kind of took a lot of the bloodier violence in stride,
767
00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000
but that part, that extended sequence where she's being repeatedly beaten, oh my god, that's so hard to watch.
768
00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000
It was I thought it was unbearable. Like the the It went on for so long. It was so brutal, relentless, and And no like that he was teasing her like the pointing to the door and saying, you know, go on try and escape and then catching her and it was just it was beyond cruel.
769
00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000
Yeah.
770
00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000
And it was really difficult to watch.
771
00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,000
And I was surprised that the skinning for me wasn't
the most difficult thing to watch. Very surprised.
772
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000
You don't really see much.
773
00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000
You don't. Which was again an interesting choice.
774
00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000
Do you What do you think about the back to that that beating scene then. Do you think that that's justified in this film or
775
00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000
do you think it's justified
776
00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,000
even though it's uncomfortable? Is it does it justify its existence?
777
00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,000
I think it probably does justify its existence even though I hate it
778
00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000
and I hate watching it and it's my least favorite part of the film. I think it does justify its own existence because we sort of need to see what she goes through in order to have been broken down.
779
00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000
I I think Maybe it goes on for a smidge too long. We could have cut that down a little bit. But um but I do think some of it is is necessary
780
00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000
just to see what she's gone through.
781
00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000
I think I tend to agree like that. I again I I say that I was surprised that that was the most uncomfortable that I felt in a film. But if you remove that, they didn't show the skinning. So I if you remove that, I think you there's probably it's probably not that shocking. The only thing that it's sort of
782
00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000
and it has to be shocking. I think this film I think that's the point
783
00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000
because it's going we're showing violence here. There has to be a reason.
784
00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000
Yeah.
785
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000
And what are we going to what are we achieving by this? What's it for? And humans have the pacity to do this to other humans. This really happens. So like and you have to you as an audience member have to go through this. with the characters.
786
00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000
It does bring up some interesting questions about gender though because I don't love that it was a man that wrote an extended sequence of a woman being beaten
787
00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000
and and by all accounts that man as well.
788
00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000
Yeah. It feels almost fetishistic at this point.
789
00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000
It's tricky
790
00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000
thinking about the state that he was in when he wrote the film. The fact that he was so severely depressed.
791
00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000
I don't know. Maybe he wrote it because he thought it would be easier to sympathize with with a woman going through that maybe. I don't know cuz to you, what changes if the two leads are boys, men?
792
00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000
What changes?
793
00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000
How does that change the film?
794
00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000
Um,
795
00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000
does it make them harder to sympathize with? Are
women easier to view as victims?
796
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000
I don't know. I don't think I don't think so. Not when it comes to we're going to take your skin off. I'm like, that hurts regardless.
797
00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000
Well, yeah. I don't know. That's an interesting question that I I don't think I have got the time to unpack entirely.
798
00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000
It does it does kind of make me question like is it because women are so often victimized in real life
799
00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000
that it's easier to accept it when it's women on screen. I'm not like these are these are rhetorical questions. I'm not saying I this is what I think, but it definitely made me conjure a lot of those questions. as I was watching it. Like, I'm not sure a remake of this with male protagonists works, but I also don't 100% know why.
800
00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000
Put Vin Diesel in the Marine and uh resurrect Paul Walker.
801
00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000
No,
802
00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000
no, don't do that.
803
00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000
Leave him.
804
00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000
Yeah, we don't need him.
805
00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000
No, we don't need Vin Diesel.
806
00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000
No, we need Do we need his songs, though?
807
00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000
We don't need his songs.
808
00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000
I think some cuz we needed socks to cheer us up.
809
00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000
No, we've got Jeremy runner for that
810
00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000
and Cory Feldman.
811
00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000
Yeah.
812
00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000
So, was this um is the journey worthwhile? Is it worth putting yourself through this?
813
00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000
Yes, I believe it is, which is why I bought it cuz when when we get to that final Well, it's not exactly the final scene because we cut to Anna straight after that, but the scene where Madmoiselle utters the line. Keep doubting. It's It gives me goosebumps. And then, you know, she just sticks the gun in her mouth and shoots. And it's such a shocking unexpected moment that Yeah, it gave me chills. Even on third watch, it gave me goosebumps.
814
00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000
I thought it was very interesting when I suppose after the the beatings and we're building to the skinning and I'm expecting this to be the worst thing I ever seen
815
00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000
and it really was. Like I'd already seen the worst thing I'd ever seen before that.
816
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000
Yeah.
817
00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000
And I thought it was very interesting not to show that skinny. And then when she reaches that point of what do you um what's the word that that reaches that point of
818
00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000
I don't know like it's not bliss cuz
819
00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000
no
820
00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000
but it's I don't know. Is there even a word for
821
00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000
she's in between two worlds almost. Um, and I wasn't I I wasn't expecting that we would see a flash of like the lights and stuff. And I suppose you could argue that might not be real. She might just be hallucinating from all of the pain.
822
00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000
Mhm.
823
00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000
But I I think I take that as there there is an afterlife. And I think that I read into Madmoiselle killing herself is because she wants to she wants she wants in. She wants she wants up there, but but there isn't a there it's not very it is ambiguous and it it doesn't say that. That's just how I feel. And I guess I I'm probably just trying to take a more optimistic take because the opposite version, which I think is where you land. You hinted that earlier.
824
00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000
Yeah. I don't view this as remotely optimistic.
825
00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000
So you think, oh, there is there's nothing. You've done this for no reason.
826
00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000
Yeah. And I think that's why she says to her friend, keep doubting.
827
00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000
Well, it's either that. It's either that she's overcome by guilt and grief. that she's done this to so many people.
828
00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000
I don't think she has. No, I don't think she's cap she's capable of guilt.
829
00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000
Fair enough. Fair enough. I do think guilt crops up a lot in this film though.
830
00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000
Well, yeah, potentially with um the Catholicism angle as well. It's must be huge part of the DNA of this film.
831
00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000
But the alternative and the one that I sort of align myself the most with is that there's it's it almost doesn't matter if Yeah. It's optimistic or bleak. for her. She's got an answer.
832
00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000
So what's the point? The thing that she's dedicated her entire life to, she now knows. So she's got no purpose anymore.
833
00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000
Yeah. She has no meaning anymore.
834
00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000
Yeah. Which I think that's why I think that's what keep doubting means. Like
835
00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000
Yeah. Because you have to you have to have some doubt to be able to find the meaning.
836
00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000
Yeah. Once you're sure what is there.
837
00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000
Yeah. And that's and I guess that's I I do I don't always some Sometimes I like ambiguous endings. I guess it depends on the on the film, but I wasn't sure if it would work here. But on in retrospect, I think it absolutely does and it ties into all of the the other themes in the film. Um, and I think it's I think what this film ult is saying, it's like, let let's just not torture each other, please.
838
00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000
Don't skin people.
839
00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000
Yeah. Stop it.
840
00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000
It's what it boils down to.
841
00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000
Yeah.
842
00:14:01,000
--> 00:14:02,000
It's the most notorious of the new French extremity movement, and I think it's the best. Although there's there's a lot of discourse around that. I'm not saying I'm right. Um the movement itself is considered to have ended sort of in the late 2000s, but I'm kind of stoked that we're seeing a rise in in those sorts of films again. I think like Coral Faria, Julia Deorn now, even Gasper Noey, your favorite.
843
00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000
They're sort of keeping that torture light. I I want films to be a little bit challenging. I want them to be interesting. I want to see stories I haven't seen before.
844
00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000
You don't want to see, for example, an American remake of Martr?
845
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000
I would never want to watch that. No. f*** you, Jason Bloom.
846
00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000
Is it Blumbhouse?
847
00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000
It's Well, so I I read online that Pascal Oier's only regret in his career is selling the remake rights to Jason Bloom. Not having an actress shove her face through a plate glass.
848
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000
Oh yeah,
849
00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000
it's selling the remake rights.
850
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000
Biggest regret. I
851
00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000
What a piece of s***. It does make this film harder to defend, doesn't it?
852
00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000
It does. Yeah,
853
00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000
I I I will defend it. Yeah, I will defend it. I think it's an excellent movie.
854
00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000
Yeah, I agree. Yeah,
855
00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000
but I won't defend the director.
856
00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000
And we're not.
857
00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000
He seems like a turd.
858
00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000
Agreed. A turd.
859
00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000
Yeah, he seems like a turd. Quaint. This is not not fitting in this episode whatsoever. Some of the dark things we've been talking about. He's a turd. Big poo poo. So, that wasn't nearly as bad as you were expecting then.
860
00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000
Well, the film, the the experience,
861
00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000
all of it, the experience, talking about it, just everything. I think it seemed like you were dreading it last week.
862
00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000
I was dreading it and I didn't have a good time.
863
00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000
No,
864
00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,000
I think it'd be weird if you did.
865
00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000
True. Um, so I suppose I had the correct response to it. It's not, "Oh, I watched Masters and I got a boner."
866
00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000
Did I'm sure.
867
00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000
Um, I was dreading it. I had a bad time. I had a I had a bad time because it's so dark. It's so bleak.
868
00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000
All of your seeing is horrific violence against women and you're seeing
869
00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000
and children
870
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000
and I have less of a problem, but pretty relentlessly through the film and I just uh there's a hand there's probably a handful of films that I've seen in my life that given me a just a pit in my stomach feeling.
871
00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000
Okay.
872
00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000
Like a
873
00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000
Do you remember any any others?
874
00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000
You mentioned uh Gaspanoi,
875
00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000
right?
876
00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000
It's Climax.
877
00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000
Okay. Yeah,
878
00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000
it's Climax.
879
00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000
Another one that I love.
880
00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,000
Yeah. Another another one that you made me watch. Yeah.
881
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000
What's wrong with me?
882
00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000
Uh Colin Se.
883
00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,000
Okay. Yeah.
884
00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000
Another one you made me watch. You see a theme e in here
885
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000
maybe.
886
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000
Yeah, there's there's pro there's a handful I think and there must be others, but I I don't seek these films out because I don't want to be challenged. I want I want to watch Scott Atkins kick Dolph Lungren in the head. All right. And you know this,
887
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000
you want to see Alan Richson punching dudes.
888
00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000
Absolutely. However, I do appreciate them when they're done well and I do feel like I've gotten
889
00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000
quite a lot out of this film and it stuck with me and I thought about it and not just because we had to cover it like I've genuinely been thinking, "Oh yeah, that was interesting."
890
00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000
It's a hard one to forget.
891
00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000
Yeah. Yeah.
892
00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000
For better or worse.
893
00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000
Yeah, I agree. So, um yeah, in in the words of Jamie and Sam at the Final Transmission podcast, the cheese is worth the sniff.
894
00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000
Okay,
895
00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000
I stole that from them. I'll put a link in the description so I'm allowed to.
896
00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000
I agree with that statement.
897
00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,000
Uh I think honestly I think it's um
898
00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000
Can it be vegan cheese though?
899
00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000
It can be vegan cheese. Of course.
900
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000
Yeah.
901
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000
Otherwise known as matter. But it's tasty.
902
00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000
It's tasty. That that that blue blue vegan blue cheese from Waitros is pretty damn good. You know, it's a holiday treat though. Very expensive. Um but now we've spoken about vegan cheese. We've got that out of the way. And marts. Um before we wrap up, actually, did are you glad that you chose Is this?
903
00:15:02,000
--> 00:15:03,000
Yeah.
904
00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000
Or do you wish that you hadn't watched it again?
905
00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000
No, I'm stoked.
906
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000
Okay, good. You seem stoked, which is probably why I didn't ask.
907
00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000
Yeah, I think it's an excellent movie. Um, if anything, I would say I like it a little bit more each time I watch it.
908
00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000
I you Yeah, I picked that up earlier. You said the first time you liked it, the second time you really liked it, and this time I got the impression that you
909
00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000
It's really cemented as like a just a masterpiece of the genre. I think
910
00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000
you used that word. You said masterpiece pretty early on in the in the in the review. So, So yeah, I had pretty good idea of what you thought about this movie. Um,
911
00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000
I don't know. Masterpiece might be overselling it, but I think it's excellent.
912
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000
I I think maybe you might be right. I think maybe it might be.
913
00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000
Can I get that in writing?
914
00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000
Um,
915
00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000
no.
916
00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000
No, you can't. The problem I think it might be I think the problem is that I'm not sure if I definitely will watch this again.
917
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000
Okay.
918
00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000
But usually I usually reserve the term masterpiece for something I've seen more than once. I have to see it a few times. I think
919
00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000
that's Yeah.
920
00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000
And I'm not sure this is going to reach that, but uh
921
00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000
it will.
922
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000
Okay.
923
00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000
But what are we doing next week?
924
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000
Sarah, you tell me. It's your season. You've got to announce what we're doing. We're doing more Dead Things, I presume.
925
00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000
We are. Um, we're going at it from a slightly different direction this time. Um, but we're going back to the 80s. Oh, no, no, we're not. Isn't it 1990?
926
00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000
I think it's 1990.
927
00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000
I always class it as like an 80s movie.
928
00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000
It was probably shot in ' 89.
929
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,000
Yeah. Um, we're doing Flat liners.
930
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000
Oh,
931
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000
the original. Not the original.
932
00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000
We're doing the original. Yeah. I I when you said 1990, I I thought it might be the original, but we could watch the remake as well.
933
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000
I've done it once. Never again.
934
00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000
Why did you watch it?
935
00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000
I don't know.
936
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000
I saw I think I saw the ratings was like, "Yep, not interested in that." I give If you Is Oliver Platt in Flatliners?
937
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000
I can't remember. Maybe
938
00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000
he might be. I think the my most overriding memory of Flatliners I think might be good cast though.
939
00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000
Yeah. Keith Julia.
940
00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,000
Yeah,
941
00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000
there's a lot of them.
942
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000
Bacon.
943
00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000
Yeah,
944
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000
we've got a few seconds as well. We've done a kefa. We've done a bacon.
945
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000
Yeah.
946
00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000
Be our first plat, I think.
947
00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000
Yeah.
948
00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000
Um Yeah. All right. So, a lot less dark.
949
00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000
A film about death somehow. Less dark. I suppose everything is less dark in really.
950
00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000
Yeah, that's safe.