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Starting point is 00:01:23 Oh, yeah. All right, Bertha. That's what I call that voice. That's the Grateful Dead. All right. We're going to watch Body Body, Bodies. Here we go. I feel like you feel defeated right now.

Starting point is 00:01:42 Am I gathering that correctly? In a good way. Like, because you, because tell me what's going through your head. I'm disappointed in myself. I hear you I hear you because it was like you were looking for the killer

Starting point is 00:02:07 well nothing was lining up for why someone would do it and nor did it make sense to me why Pete Davidson got to watch our words here would on alive himself and then they show like oh it's just some

Starting point is 00:02:26 freak accident or something that occurred and I kind of love it because of that like when she says what was he doing outside yeah and like you called it and I just

Starting point is 00:02:41 couldn't see like why he would do it and I do actually sort of I actually really respect the fact that everything that happened was just because they couldn't keep their shit together and it becomes this commentary on what people are like especially like what people respond how they behave on

Starting point is 00:03:03 on like social media you know all the buzzwords that you hear and the fronts that they like to put up and what they like to advocate for and how everyone's kind of putting up a facade you know this veneer that and pulling back those layers and then I I kind of loved it in a way I did not anticipate because it is so different than I would have expected and it's A-24 I can imagine this is one of those movies that has an all right audience score

Starting point is 00:03:34 with a great critic score because this is not, because it sets it up like a typical murder mystery just with a modern time. You think this is better critic score than audience? I would suspect so. I would think flip. I mean, you've been outdoing me on this movie the entire time as I have been

Starting point is 00:03:50 wrong the entire way. It's because I'm so young and hip. I know. You speak the language of these women. I'm just going to look up that one thing while... You know what? This is kind of a commentary on, though, I believe. Like, this is what happens when your relationships are not rooted in trust, when you don't actually have trust at their core. Because so here's what's happened.

Starting point is 00:04:12 Pete Davidson. That was right. On accident. 85 critics 69. That's wild. And I'd be like, yep, this seems like that kind of... But pretty high for both. Fresh for both, right?

Starting point is 00:04:22 Yeah, I mean, one's like a C and the other one's like a B plus. Yeah, 69 is kind of low for the audience. I would have thought it had been higher than that, honestly. I would definitely guess that it would have been in the 70s minimum. Well, you see, I was saying that because that disappointment I have, I can imagine, that isn't just in myself, but I can imagine the way how other people probably take it or like, it was just like this big.

Starting point is 00:04:43 I feel so satisfied right now. It's insane. I knew they weren't going to not tell us who did it. What I think is just so brilliant, though, is, okay, so you follow all the threads. Pete Davidson, on accident, unalive, just totally because he is threatened by somebody else's like masculinity, I suppose. Then because of that, they are, they question this man who they don't know very well and they believe to be a war vet who is not, but they don't stop and ask questions.

Starting point is 00:05:16 They don't trust each other's judgment in their partners. They don't trust him. So then they end up with him being unaligned. then the same situation with the girl who then Amanda Lowe's character gives too many pills to and she trips down the stairs. It's just like a series of unfortunate events. Well, it's funny because Pete Davidson, when he's first going off on his girlfriend, when he's saying like, wait, you're going to call me a gaslight or what? Because I think some people will say that it's such a buzzword and an often abused word in it of itself. It is.

Starting point is 00:05:49 And then being called a narcissist, another thing, like a lot of these words. that I've sort of reached the forefront in the day and age of mental health becoming an actual definition, right? And it's funny because they're all kind of do that to each other. They're all emotionally abusive to each other. They're all narcissists for the most part. They're all, except for our main girl. And then they're, um, they all gaslight each other. So they are all victims of the exact thing they avoid admitting to what they are as a, as a collective.

Starting point is 00:06:18 Completely. And I thought that was kind of a brilliant, um, take. on on these characters because as much as they're like rich it's not really a commentary on classism it's more of a commentary on how we associate um all these like like i like i think rachel uh is senate or so no i always call it is a senator i've been saying senate but that might not be right i mean my introduction to her was body uh bottom bottoms oh i didn't see the other one but um yeah i think her character is like a wonderful encapsulation of a feeling like an authentic personality.

Starting point is 00:06:54 Like you and I have both probably seen that type of individuals. Did you watch The Idol? No, I did not. Okay, she's that too. Yeah, she's amazing. She's unbelievable. And somehow she doesn't feel like a parody, even though that kind of person feels like a parody.

Starting point is 00:07:12 I think on paper, it probably reads like it could be a sketch, but she brings an authenticity to it that makes, that reminding me of people in real life. life they we i i for sure i'm like i've seen this type of personality so many times you know i'm so with you yeah the each character even though we don't know their names they were so clear just so crystal clear made perfect sense uh but it also felt like this was i don't know who this was written by but it felt like it was written by somebody who's 27 years old 25 years old plugged in what was like plugged into the way people are on social i thought you said

Starting point is 00:07:52 I was misplugged in. I was like, was that the other person to me? Just in the sense that, like, I don't feel like it was a commentary from a 50-year-old man commenting on young women today. I feel like this was part of society is when your relationships are not rooted in earned behaviors and trust and understanding. And you just use these buzzwords and you just have drugs and. partying and you just have

Starting point is 00:08:24 money and richness and fun experiences, then you don't have what you need to thrive. Yeah. And in this it takes it to the extreme obviously, but like the relationship that makes the furthest in this is the one that is at

Starting point is 00:08:42 least rooted in love in a little way, you know, at least lust like between the two girls between the people that we start seeing them make you know like they at least are coming in they're sober they're trying um and they're the ones who make it out of the end of this do you think that a mandela's character was the check the text thing like do you think that she they hooked up yeah a thousand percent she tossed

Starting point is 00:09:11 her phone that's sad she's she's been vehemently denial the one main uh girl who i kept suspecting was the killer she her last words were check her texts she was dead set on it and she also threw her phone and if there what if she has a gun pointed at her and and her key to earning trust but why doesn't she just say yeah i did it because you probably they all are liars i know they're all narcissistic personality except for the one girl whose mom has borderline she's not a liar but she's the outsider yeah she's the outside of them all right she's the fish out of It was nice to have that one redeeming character, except she's the only one we see who murders somebody in cold blood.

Starting point is 00:10:00 In the whole movie, one person murders somebody, and it's her. I wouldn't call it cold blood, though. I mean, everyone in that moment thought he was the killer, and they were all fighting with him. It doesn't mean she didn't murder him. She definitely murdered him. In cold blood. But I when I usually... He didn't murder anybody.

Starting point is 00:10:15 If I hear what in cold blood means, that sounds like just a cold-blooded murder when it wasn't an act of defense in it it wasn't self-defense though i don't think in the court i think in her mind it was because she was he looked like he was attacking their mind i wouldn't call her a murderer though i mean in the in the in the context of what went down in that scene she would they were all um right in the context they were like one one guy one girl tackled him they all had weapons on him and he was ready to fight he even grabbed a night He was fighting with all them. And so she just took the blow to take him down.

Starting point is 00:10:56 I'm not calling it first degree premeditated. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's why I felt like it was coming across. She had 1,000% murder him. You said, I don't know if she's a murderer. She hit him over the head and then he gets back up and she hit him. I know, you know, labels. Like, there was a way to de-escalate.

Starting point is 00:11:15 And that's another thing. Another great message of this movie. And I know it's not supposed to be like, oh, this movie's all about its messages. There's a lot of messages. In life, this is so important when you can de-escalate, do. Yeah. And none of them could do it. She couldn't, none of them could de-escalate.

Starting point is 00:11:35 The only one who could ended up murdered, he went to the, remember when Pete hits him, and he gets in his face, and he's like, I'm going to go to sleep now. And he was of a different gen. And he goes in the other room, and he read light therapies, and he tries to de-escalate, and he puts down his weapon and he ends up dead for it yeah holy these guys are all everyone here what i loved is like everyone here is so obsessed with her image even to a degree with our um i keep forgetting their name amandla amandla uh even with amandla there isn't to at least the way i saw it there was an extent of part of her working on herself and getting sober was to also receive a sense of

Starting point is 00:12:21 of gratification of her image of what others thought about her. There was a consistency with almost like a need for validation that everyone had and a need for approval. Yes, Greg. And even at the end when she says, when they're like, why didn't you want to be around us anymore? And she says, because you guys trigger me and it's another buzzword. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:42 It's like deep deeper. In the midst of that heated conflict, they're all buzzwording. Yeah. And it's like, how about one of you guys actually stop? and says something real for a single second, but you can't be. They say, why don't you want to be with us anymore? And instead of saying,

Starting point is 00:12:58 because you guys don't support me, your really horrible friends, and I can't control myself when I'm around. She says, because you trigger me. It's like, that's the buzzword nation right now. And that's why early on, like, I wasn't trying to say Pete Davidson's character

Starting point is 00:13:15 wasn't a POS because he totally was. But I got what he was saying. When he was like, he was like, when are you're going to call me a narcissist? And it's like, you are a narcissist. You absolutely are. But also, it is just the buzzword city. It's wild. This, wow, I love this.

Starting point is 00:13:34 Yeah, I mean, like attracts like. And I think that the whole, I love how they peel it back to show that a lot of the images that people put up. It's such a strange movie because it's the last thing I expected this movie. I never would have thought this is the kind of film we were walking into. Can I tell you the only moment that I think could have been stronger? Max walking in and saying... Oh, yeah, he was too an enchalant about that. What?

Starting point is 00:14:01 He goes, so what happened in here? I think they were going for like a comedic touch, but it just registered as not believable. It was like, that made me think like, wait, did you do this? Like, what? It is an odd moment. Shout out to Ask the Pro for sponsoring us. So some fun facts about me. I've been seeing an E&T the past couple of months.

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Starting point is 00:17:21 So stay hydrated, stay healthy, and let's keep crushing those health and fitness goals together in the year 2024. Like, what if he had walked in and just screamed his head off, you know, and then caught anything? Like, just, I feel like other than that, this movie had a great sense of tone, especially with Rachel's character. She was so spot on with her jokes, but like we said, felt realistic. Like, I thought the timing, this was almost. played like a horror comedy it was so funny at times but that moment was just like what i'd definitely call out a dark horror i think it's a dark comedy i think it's a black comedy i think it's a really uh it's like mean-spirited but in all the ways i love who is your favorite character uh i would i would probably i mean

Starting point is 00:18:07 the one i think most people would hope to identify with fish out of water murderer yeah yeah the first screamer uh the her the main girl they're all everyone was such a great actor though um i don't know if i had a favorite character i think i have to give it to rachel senate those things that she said that were she was funny man she was funny she was really really funny but the way the movie also handles like the paranoia and the horror i thought was excellent too yes the way how the uh the cascading events of the of like the weather and atmosphere just like caving in on them.

Starting point is 00:18:48 Yes, the weather helps so much. And you know what, Greg? It's an us problem as a society. No, just society, us. We did this. We did this. We did what they did. We saw what they saw.

Starting point is 00:19:05 Yeah. And we jumped to who did it. No, that's why I think it's a clever plan. The audience is I think a lot of us, too, in a lot of ways might need to check ourselves on when we are when we are succumbing to being reflective of the other characters too. Yes, Greg. And I think it's really easy for anyone who has a social media account to fall into that

Starting point is 00:19:29 trap where you are suddenly putting out things because you kind of want the recognition for look at me for what I'm doing and not realize that I'm kind of going down some narcissistic tendencies or I'm doing something that I personally don't agree. even though I might like put out there that I don't agree with this and I support this. Maybe I'm not really actually, maybe I am being the antithesis to that. So I think there's a way to, I think the main thing we would all want to do is just go, I am just the main fish out of water character, but then go, oh, but you know, sometimes I might have to be mindful of, mindful of, mindful, it's another word, I might have to be mindful of

Starting point is 00:20:02 when I am reflecting these other characters. I'd like to think I'm not these people in real life, but we all have our moments where we can succumb to that and if you and the point is like to do that in knowledge of truth and change and this is everyone's characters that are breaking down as as this situation just keeps unfolding they're breaking down to the truth but do they ever truly get in touch with the truth of who they actually are right i don't think they do you know yeah because at the end of the day right the our fish out of water character still is a liar and a murderer but she was the only one who I'm with you complete.

Starting point is 00:20:42 She's the best of them. Yeah. But she's still, to her girlfriend, claimed she went to graduate, didn't. Claim she was working, wasn't. And I'm not saying she didn't, we don't feel for her. I'm not saying I don't empathize or sympathize with some of her decisions. But like, just because you have a family situation that's horrible, you know, we hear Rachel sent people like, that's very real.

Starting point is 00:21:04 Mental health is very real. And it's like, yeah, but you still can't be a liar and a piece of shit. Yeah. Still can't lie and murder. Well, that's why I think this idea, like with the main girl, I wish we knew everyone said, with the main girl. I know, I don't know any of that. Alice, Emma. I can't recall a single name. But with our main girl, like her whole point of her, of being from her perspective, starting it in, is she just wants to fit in.

Starting point is 00:21:28 She just wants to get approval as well. So even though it's a different context as opposed to how everyone else seeks validation, I think that's so smart as a reflective, idea to the audience of what happens when you try to fit in and the consequences of that when you aren't just being your true self so you're talking about you specifically talking about you know trust and truth i think that is a big point of the i think that is a point of the movie the last thing i thought we were going to just talk about horror and all these things in this movie just had so much more to say that and and i think it does not give you what you expect and i can imagine that's why the audience score would be like

Starting point is 00:22:09 I immediately thought the audience score would be a lot lower because it's not a simple whodunit movie. But did you find this to be, the reason I thought the audience score was going to be higher and obviously I was wrong is because I found this fun still. And I find that audiences can be forgiving when something is really fun. Do you think that this was a fun movie? I think it was a fun movie. I do think it gets really serious though.

Starting point is 00:22:33 Like Rachel Sennett, I do believe elevates it. And sometimes maybe because just the way we were. absorbed. We were not finding moments that I imagine. Maybe that was meant to be a ha-ha moment. Like when she puts the gun up when she's dying and she says, check her text. Like, there's something kind of funny about that. But the whole argument leading into that was not funny. It was a very serious argument as much as there was a almost meta-commentary on. Like when she talked about being black and using cocaine and how it's not a problem. Yeah. Davidson does it, but when she does it. I mean, the way they were all turning on each other and pointing the fingers and stuff,

Starting point is 00:23:10 I really, I think that stuff, maybe people started finding that, I don't know why people, maybe they thought it was breachy or something, but I thought it was very revelatory of the characters. Wow. I don't think it was preaching. No, I don't, I'm not saying I thought it was preaching. No, I know, I know, yeah. I don't know why people would find it to be on the lower side. Because it's really not a horror, it doesn't really become like that much of a horror movie at a certain point because it just, it takes breaks. Because most of these movies, they would just keep.

Starting point is 00:23:37 the focus simply on who is the killer and then this movie just takes these breaks to have people argue about things that are not about who killed who you know it becomes about other things in the past that they have not talked about where you're not even thinking about who the killer is for for certain chunks of the movie so yeah it's interesting the music killer phenomenal music the uh the way this was lit awesome beautiful really cool beautiful stuff i want Do you know this director at all? I have no idea. Let's look it up.

Starting point is 00:24:11 Let's look in it. Let's do it. Let's go. Let's do it. And I thought Pete Davidson was very believable. Usually I'm, I am very much, I'm saying this sentence, realizing I don't actually, this might be the only movie I've seen that Pete Davidson's in. I watched his show. Okay. Oh, what the hell is it called?

Starting point is 00:24:32 Something. Oh, the one that had like Joe Pashy and stuff. Yeah, yeah. No, I did not. I think Pete Davidson's pretty good. That's my point is I guess I've never really given him the chance. And I just assumed I would only see Pete Davidson, which is an unfair thing to impose on him.

Starting point is 00:24:48 The character was very Pete Davidson adjacent. I feel like they played to his strengths, I think. But yeah, I think he did a good job. You looking at the director? Yeah, it looks like... Who's the director? Her name is Helena Rain. And mainly T.

Starting point is 00:25:06 TV. Yeah, mainly TV shows that I've never heard of ever. I have no idea. I don't know what any of these are. Did the director also write the script? No, it's a different writer. Did it? Really? I did notice that. It seemed to me like it was the person who directed it would have been the writer. Sarah, someone came up with a story and the writer is very female-triffed property. Let's go. You wouldn't. No, this is her first movie.

Starting point is 00:25:40 Impressive. For a director we don't know, a writer who this was her first movie. That's impressive stuff. The whole thing, I have to say, I was hoping that I was going to love this and I'm really, really happy that I did. I thought it was great. Yep. I thought it was great and subverted expectations every step of the way. And I think Greg fake out death is the moment they're telling you this movie is not going to be what you think is.

Starting point is 00:26:05 Yeah, totally. That's so true. The ball tap movement. I was engrossed. Yeah. I was literally engrossed to the point where I'm like, I'm not even saying anything now. I'm just like really watching what's happening. I'm so impressed with.

Starting point is 00:26:17 I like that you remember one character's name. It's because he has your name. Of course. Someone was named Roxy. You remember Roxy, wouldn't you? For sure. That's why I can't remember anybody with Greg either. Okay.

Starting point is 00:26:29 Any other thoughts before we body on out? I'm trying to think, you know, because I always, the one thing that, The consistency in my life. Is that you think of the thought right now? With the YouTube videos is when like the top comment is the thing that I'm like, oh, I should have talked about that. Like things that are people are pointing out. They can't really think of anything.

Starting point is 00:26:48 Great acting. Great guy. I didn't say it at all. I think as a for what is obvious, I mean, other than like certain cast members for a lower budget film, I thought it was really smart of how they shot it to make it feel bigger with the mansion and to use the weather but I noticed that oh you get away with a lot in these real tight shots and to make like

Starting point is 00:27:11 the environment feel massively icky and just like drenched them and then everything in the background moving but like you get a couple of machines and you just make it like feel more massive than it actually is I thought was really clever but they got some real this is a real

Starting point is 00:27:27 talented everyone felt like they knew each other a long time the chemistry was unreal it was amazing chemistry I was very impressed with the chemistry. These are stellar performances. Well, body, body, bodies, you have our heart and our mind and our soul and our body. Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, really, really good.

Starting point is 00:27:47 And I hope you guys loved it as much as we did. Let us know in the comments. And we'll see you soon. Later, Rejects.

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