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Thank you. Hello, fresh. John, before we talk about anything, let's create some categories here. Ooh, chapters, just like in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, I want to make sure we talk about every, okay, so let's go over the ending. Okay. And then what else do we have to interpret or should we try to find meaning of? Okay, so just what was really going on. Yeah, what is this apocalypse? What other things happened that we should dissect the meaning of animals?

Animal symbolism, yes, definitely. Oh, God, this is going to be hard. What else we got? We got color symbolism. Oh, jeez. Racial subtext. Oh, man, this is a tough one. Damn.

Class commentary. And we'll perform. Performances. Tone. Direction and cinematography. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Let's go with the.

ending one first and ending explained yes watch us do this without any research just just absorbing what the movie's giving us uh-huh we can do this ending explain all right so rosy goes down to the rich man's bunker uh-huh and then finds the friend's DVD watches the last one I think there's multiple meanings here guys get ready for this Greg's about to sound so smart smart Greg incoming Rachel got off the plane I think the wife got off the plane I think wife survived it's a sim yes

it's an easter egg of sorts it's just such a weird ending to end on her getting the DVD because there's so much emphasis on it okay let's try to be sincere for just one second John

there is this like there is this emphasis on when they find joy through certain forms of escapism right and she i mean the daughter has this whole thing about like world sucks but i like these friends people and it's the way a lot of us describe the show friends my favorite show of all time and i would describe very similar experience that this this girl describes friends being as then even when um myershali and julia roberts they're dancing it's

via through the form of art through the music you know so i think that even in despite these chaotic tumertialist times that they are living in, to put it lightly, that their source of happiness can still be found in some form of art. Yeah, I would say. I think that's maybe what the choice to end on that specific note, ultimately is about like she finds a genuine smile in that, in the heartbeat of a moment, you know, and like she's pigging out

enjoying the junk food but beyond that I think with ending on friends which is an art form I'm trying to say there's like a third time where they find art because I'm like how does the music and that is there another moment

well I mean there are other things like she says that like oh they love the pool I just want them to focus on that then it's like forms of recreation and like simple little things it's a record it's dancing it's swimming it's being outside it's finding your favorite show or whatever it might be and yeah it's those little things it's like in a

situation that is like asking you to find impossible solutions to what seems like the most insurmountable set of circumstances it's the simple things whether it's a world rending scenario or just personally intense stakes it's the little things that give us respite from that that's a very solid point i think we have explained the ending and Indeed. Friends communal. What have we got to hear? Friends. People who have become friends, even though at first they were just strangers to each other. That's true. And they're all kind of, you know, inhabiting the same building like in friends. They don't, you know, sweep in the same room, but their neighbors kind of, if you make the house an apartment building. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then, you know. Rich friends. And then Kevin Bacon is Gunther, you know.

He's just down the road At the cafe Fair enough There were six people At this home Six members of the friends I think the show Friends Has way more to do with it

That people realize It does It does I think you're correct about that And then the first show That was often criticized For being just only like Whitepoke

Yeah Got a little bit more diversity here That's right This was diverse friends This was diverse friends Is what we watch I'll be there for you Have that song playing over it

when the question posed at the very end when Mahershawley and Ethan Hawk was will you be there for me? Will we be there for each other when all this shit is truly hitting the fan? Yeah. And are you on the level with me? Can I trust you?

Will you be my friend? That's what I's. Yep. Yeah, that's beautiful, man. I'm saying that's probably what it's about, right? I think we have explained the ending. And so, and you hear Julie Roberts' voice outside. Who was on friends.

who was not emphasized this enough. Yes, we hear her voice as young Rose is sitting down to watch the show so we can assume that she's going to be found by her mother and that they probably all will hole up in this panic room for as long as the resources can go around. I know that we didn't get to where they find her, but they see where the house is. It is their house.

The timer is set. They are going back. They say that they need to go to the bunker. I think it's safe to assume that they will all bunker. down there together. And then fight over what we watch on TV. Okay. What was the name of the people who were there?

In the house? The hawth? The thorns. The thorns. Yeah, where were they? I don't know. They got out of Dodge. Maybe we're not explaining it.

See, that's the thing is maybe because they were rich enough to already have this off the books panic room. Maybe they had a panic room underneath the thing. Yes. Or maybe they went someplace else even more secure. They have like a private island someplace and they got out early. Because, like, you know, maybe they gave Kevin Bacon a heads up, you know, because he was like, hey, you know, here's a little piece of information for free. Your friends of Thorns.

Why don't you go check them out, huh? So do you think Mahershal Ali was right? We're moving on in that category. Right about which thing. About him saying he was breaking it down for Ethan Hawke. Gotcha, gotcha. Of saying, like, this is what's really going on. This three-step thing.

You know, the implication is that the United States is doing it until. itself or we are being attacked and this is this is their plan well now the message i took from it is is if we follow these steps we cut everybody off from everything and then we create you know simultaneous chaos everywhere then the people this divided nation of people will will take care of the rest and naturally by you know destroying and eating each other basically perfect i love to hear you're so pent up here the here in these divided states that uh yeah we'll take our down. You know, all they got to do is introduce a little chaos and then, you know, the misinformation, the leaflets, all that stuff. Give us a million directions of where to point the finger and then, you know, pretty soon, yeah, we'll just all be scavenging and looting and all that stuff. Wow. Wow. And you believe that's what was really going on? I believe it. He seems convinced. It seems convincing and it also doesn't seem like it's both to me. It's like, I think logically speaking, yeah, it is some kind of, you know, you know, a tech-based attack because, of course, that seems like a very salient message.

We rely so heavily on these interconnected things that we don't fully understand the nature of that if we were to be removed from them, we would be many of us quite helpless. And so, yeah, it's like that seems like a very conscientious way to take down, you know, a country or whatever it is, and you see the bombs going off. So it seemed relatively reasonable to assume that what he is saying is happening is probably the case. However, you'll never know, or until it's over in a situation like this, I imagine. You wouldn't really know. And so I think, yeah, that little piece of ambiguity suits it, but it does certainly seem like that three-step scenario he was talking about.

Yeah. I mean, a lot of the themes are soon about dealing with reality of the situation. Yeah. Even right down to, it's probably not on the reaction highlights, and I'm going to watch my words here. Even right down to the teen boy in the midst of everything is still like. like i'm gonna go look at my phone and try to touch myself a lurk on this girl here yeah yeah like but he can't ultimately uh continue to do so um and so but again and you know like even while they're dealing with stuff and they're drinking and vaping and whatever that they're they're they still

try to find like forms of escapism when so much of this is about trying to face face reality deal with reality the cigarette the vape all those things yeah man so um that's the wine and one theme. Oh, man, this movie was so multi-layered. It's got, you know, some of the layers.

It's based on a book. How is it? I assume so. Didn't it say it was based on a book? I think so. It was adapted or something. There was some like the line at the beginning. Yeah.

Adapted for the screen or something like that. There was some text there. Yeah. implied based on something. Yeah. Okay. So we have that. Themes.

That's some good themes. Yeah. well and yeah and what at what point do you accept that the i think that was a good theme that they brought up the idea of like oh is there a shadowy cabal of people who run the world or is the scarier alternative that no one's in control and all these things all these tenuous agreements we make collectively that form society are that are tenuous and can be rattled at any moment animals animals yes Well, for me, I was thinking about, I mean, I've tried saying it, but I would get so caught up and, oh, my God, I feel like there's important lines happening here. Yes. So I need to kind of talk a while also trying to absorb. Yeah. To me, it brings it back to the roots of Earth for us.

Sure. Like, when you think about, like, the land of animals, this should be a planet that is shared. Humans are just another part of the animal kingdom. But we have created this distinction between humans. humans and animals. Yeah. And through this distinction, we have created metropolises and technology and all these things that have slowly corrupted and destroyed our earth, in turn, destroying the land of our, um, our, uh, our, uh, our neighbors, animals.

Yeah. And that's at least what I was taking from it. Well, that was my interpretation of why there was all this emphasis on animals and messing with migration and stuff like that. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I don't quite get what. Deer means, I don't understand, I don't know the actual association of like, what does horse symbolism mean? What does deer mean? Let's do some deer symbolism. Deer symbolism. In many

cultures, the deer is a symbol of spiritual authority. During deer's life, antlers fall off and grow again. And the animal is also a symbol of regeneration. And in Christian imagination, the deer is a symbol of piety, devotion, and of God taking care of his children. And explain to me what it means in the context of this movie, John. Well, all the deer, and that is one of the more overtly supernatural feeling elements of this movie, that does flirt with that tone. I guess to me it's perhaps the animals sort of maybe recognizing like, hey, we're already out here, we're away from the city, we're in much more of nature's domain than man's domain,

even though you have this fancy house here maybe they are recognizing like hey you're kind of being returned to our community in a sense we are sort of here to recognize you and i feel like the daughter both of the daughters are the ones they seem to most communicate to so maybe there's like a mother nature thing both of the daughters though they have very different vibes and functions within the story seem aware of and kind of attuned to things in a way that other characters aren't or it seems like they're at least not trying to delude themselves the way other characters are. So maybe it is that they have that direct link to the fauna around, you know, in some kind of spiritual kind of sense. I mean, that is that is the point at which the movie does get the most sort of abstracted.

And you go like, okay, is this this must really be happening given how this movie is presented itself thus far. There must be like hundreds of deer here. So that part of it is interesting to me. I'd be curious to hear about people's interpretation of how overt that symbol is used. But you also have the flamingos, you know, which I don't know if there is a direct flamingo symbolism. I'm way ahead of you there, John. Oh, what's you got? What's you got?

Symbol of beauty, grace, and a sense of otherworldliness. The presence of flamingos and the story serves as a contrast to the chaotic and unsettling events that occur. they represent a connection to nature but I've been getting at here a reminder of the tranquil world that exists beyond the chaos of human existence again bringing us back stripping us away from these manmade creations

yeah they're just here going away I think that's what every animal sort of means here in some sense I mean yeah especially the more unless you're in a story that is very removed from the trappings of modern life especially modern western life you know I feel like there's always

a little sprinkle of Spanish speaking woman. Well, I mean, that'll be another thing, is our, I guess that's a heightened version of our inability to communicate in a crisis scenario. And you can't help but imagine maybe if Ethan Hawke had kept his head, you know, he could have been the person we all hope to be, not just the person that we think we would be given the kind of attitude, his character displays much of the time, and lead up to that. You would expect him to be the guy to be like, get in and we'll figure this out. But at the same time, he's getting overwhelmed. She's, I

would love, that's one of those things where I was sitting there going, man, like a Spanish speaker in the audience probably has like a little nugget of context. The rest of us don't. And I think that's cool. I think that at least, yeah, zeroes in on the fact that a chaos situation like this, there will be, yes, literal language barriers, but

in the more figurative sense, there will just be communication breakdowns when everyone is in a panic and people are going to handle that situation sloppily. That's part of the controlled chaos that they are introducing here i guess it's also the start of like the fear of the unknown yeah yeah exactly and i mean it it zeroes in on some of that xenophobia certainly not in the most doesn't exist in this movie not in the most malicious way but in a way and and what fear does to

you and i mean too yeah like uh i don't know there's this was from an earlier point but there is a certain amount of bargaining i feel like everybody in this movie does where they're like no no no there's somebody out there like someone's going to take care of it there is an order there's a hospital we can get to and it's you know everybody is sort of getting how far does things need to progress before you get to the point where you're like well all we have is what we have right here in front of it you know yeah yeah movie kind of hits the nose on it hits the nail on the nose head hits the head on the nose nail when it comes to you know the stuff like the electric cars and no they're saving the world you want to

One, you got with the Tesla, billionaires. It's okay. It'll be rivians in a few years from now. But I think it actually spoke more to the point of, I just love how it was like the automated version of the electric car. Well, that's a slight leap because I don't think cars do that yet. They test that technology and that's not been implemented yet from my understanding. What? Because it's like fully self-driving, no driver intervention or no driver intermediary, just like full-on.

No, you usually need to, I mean, they, I'm sure they can. But in order for them to usually operate, you need a human body in the driver's seat in order to do it. Yeah, because there are just certain things that. But I'm sure they can program it where they don't need a body in there. Well, they're doing it now. And the reason it's not been made consumer is because they're, They haven't been able to fully rectify the machine's inability to account for certain anomalies, so it will still hit stuff. So part of me is like, okay, this is a bit of a fantasy because they're not just selling Tesla's self-drive.

But, I mean, it is the exact fear you have about those, aside from it, just malfunctioning. Somebody, like, maliciously, using them to jam up all the roads is, like, diabolical. Everything crashing in on itself. And that sequence was so, it was very intense. Very intense. And also with, yeah, like when Julia Roberts is spouting about of, like, how we do these things, thinking we're making a difference when we're not. And that is us in a nutshell.

And I was just listening to John Oliver's segment about chocolate. Oh. And I had no idea just the amount of child labor that could. goes into the production of our chocolate industry. And that was quite eye-opening. I've been very blind to this. And I love chocolate. So I was like, let me buy as much chocolate as I can before I finished this video.

Before my guilt kicks in and I stop out of chocolate anymore. Well, I have a year supply of chocolate. It would just be a waste. A waste now. So I should at least. They're starving kids that would love to have that chocolate. should at least finish this chocolate. You should.

Or else those poor people, their hard work will go to weight. Yes. You don't want to spit in the face of all that hard work. Because they just get compensated with the joy of knowing that you're enjoying the chocolate. It did make me question myself, though. I'm like, oh, maybe I shouldn't buy chocolate anymore. Holy shit. I have to only buy very specific, ethical, and probably quite price for chocolate.

But even to that point, though, it gets. get to a point where even there's only so much even for the most ethical of companies there's only so much mandating they can do to ensure that like the way how the process of this to this to this to travel to this that their chocolate is of the purest non-child laborie chocolate yeah they've they've even had they covers that like they even they've had to there's only so much they can do to ensure for the most ethical ones uh and so my point being is that with what this movie is talking about you know that what perhaps what we think we're doing as the real contribution to change is truly not enough that the impending doom of it all

because there's this environmentalism talks here uh i think this whole thing of world decaying in itself is very much an environmental allegory in a lot of ways there's a lot of different things they're talking about but at the end of day it keeps coming back to like it starts off their character of julia roberts who is essentially our main character saying she hates people but in the end of it all when everything's stripped down we will need to rely on each other the the few who we can trust yeah because that's all you have either way is people yeah and that is kind of like the nebulous of humanity i think it was darwin oh could be wrong here careful but i'm going to say it and it's up to you if you want to research it i want your pagan theories that there are things

about um i remember the meaning at least is that uh it's humanity has thrived through cooperation that's how we thrive so when you strip us down to our bare bones that love is kind of in our DNA of cooperation that's a lovely sentiment yeah a bunch of bullshit i don't like it at all not the real world not out here in the mean streets not when the chips are down and everyone's desperate um and uh let's talk about about performances um i loved i loved it i loved it i love i mean it was like watching a play yes i love julia roberts's work here's been a while since i've like i saw our ticket to paradise or george cluny and much as i love watching my old celebrities um uh fall in love

i love the movie i liked it a lot okay i did i like i like i like rom-coms i liked it a lot good um if anyone who doesn't know i i watch a lot of rom-rom-coms It's like I don't ever react to them But I'll go through my face Where I'm like watching another rom-coms And I love that I quite enjoyed it It was a lot of fun

It was a little different too And and It hit me Finally hit me where I recognize The actor plays Ruth She's on that episode A Black Mirror She's the second episode

Yeah the documentary one Yeah There you go Yeah Netflix keep it in house Don't pay a residger That's how we do it. Stable of actors, we don't have to pay much.

And there you go. I don't always. This is kind of a Black Mirror-esque episode. Very much. And, yeah, so I think Julia Roberts was excellent here. Showed the most growth. Yeah, and a character that is not the most glamorous to take on, but requires a lot of subtle chops from an actor.

Yeah, she was excellent. Her and Ethan Hawke, I really believe there's a couple. i think Ethan hawk is absolutely excellent he's a fire in every role the guy ever does yeah no matter what genre he really is like a camellian he's special he's a true true talent yeah because it's just so he just seems so natural in any role he slips into yeah and even here as like he's not the tough one in the relationship hey oh that whole useless man's speech broke my heart and i was like yeah it's a lot of us yeah yeah that's me all the time yeah just like i don't know and early on he even says that thing is like your mom's the tech whiz you know i'm just a thing he's just a thinker guy

yeah loved his work maherchall lee commands as usual sure yeah um i do love the direction it was smart it was smarter the movie to not to create an immediate plot of like a horrible of like a terrifying air bn bn bn't situation gone wrong right yeah get barbarian with us get barbarian make you suspicious of like what's really at play here is it going to be about these people keeping in on themselves as the movie does lose sight of it's like a media plot and become all about what's going on in the world and commentary like it does in the last like hour it does just become about that it's all symbolism and topics i guess we're all who we say we are there's chaos happening all right i did kind of wish the movie focused in a little bit on how do you keep it about what's

really going on between the people in the house and that plot and then letting the commentary also coincide with that versus let's really just make it about what's going on out here yeah and fun stuff um so yeah that was one part of it but the performances remained as strong as ever from beginning and like everyone had chemistry the children writing children I think writing, A, like, I don't like to criticize a child's performance, and B, I don't, I often fluctuate on a criticism of writing children because I don't ever go, that's not how children talk because I don't know children and I don't work with children. So I don't really know, like I think about how children now, as opposed to when we grew up, they grow up with cell phones and I has that give them access to all kinds of media that might make their the way they speak in their vernacular and all that be much more more wide ranging than how when i grew up because

of the amount of exposure they have that it some people think it limits one's capacity to learn but at the same time i could also enhance one's language just due to the amount of exposure they It makes a lot of things more second nature, and it is interesting because we live in a time where, you know, you have the idea in your mind from my, you know, from our perspective, I'm sure, of like movies where kids talk like adults and it's a trope and it's, and it's a precocious child. yeah but we also now live in a moment where kids or at least younger and younger kids are able to speak with more and more adult inflection and vocabulary because of the vastness of the internet they have access to and like yeah yeah i think you said something during the movie which i think is true it's like you know it's hard to write kids partly because you're probably drawing from kid talk from when you were a kid which is probably a while ago and now we live in a time where more so i think than ever before Or just, again, because of what the advancement of the internet and every kid having an iPad or an iPhone is, like, yeah, there is a different, it's not the same as precocious child of yesteryear, but it is like a different tonality of characterization, I guess. And it is hard to nail down, certainly. And I mean, between the two, I think I preferred Rose to the brother. For the character.

Yes. Yeah. I thought the We hear audio Doesn't matter Doesn't matter As long as long as I'm on the video So yeah

I think the The teen boy God what the hell is his name It's definitely coming from In the computer though What is this? What is happening right now? Yeah.

It's come from in the computer. Where is it? We're so late in the video. It's not this confusion is happening. What's going on out there, John? Running. It can't be. It doesn't make any sense.

I'm just going to close out all of our web windows. Just close it all out. Shut it down. All right. I mean, there's only so many things I can shut down now. Shut it down. shut it all down something's playing on a loop it's coy's voice from some other earlier recording and i don't like it i don't like to hear it nope i don't like to hear a vagary even if it's not in our our little

record even if it's not on our headphones there's a tiny bit i don't like any of it john of it bothering me gone it's bothering all right cool let's just keep talking i think it's gone we're fine um so teen boy like while like very much no depth at all to that character no Not even like an attempt at depth. Anti-depth. Yeah, he's just that typical teenage boy. He's a horny teenager. What else is there to?

And my sister's a drag and I'm going to do everything I can and not open up to her. Yeah, yeah. I didn't really care for him, but I weirdly found the writing on him more believable just because of the cliche of a teenage boy. And I know what it's like to be a teenage boy. Sure. Even though I didn't behave like that when I was a teenage boy, I know that. known enough teenage boys when i was teenager to get that and uh and her like that that was my point of of of of like i can't sit here and tell you that little girl wasn't believable because i don't

know what it's hard for me to wrap my head around finding this little girl believable even though i'm sure there are little girls out there who are just as like hyper intelligent and precarious and thought provoking but i still liked her character enough um to enjoy when she was on screen the rose character the yeah yeah young young one yeah i i guess i was maybe drawn to her a bit more just because of how like strange her vibe always was she almost reminded me of the little sister from hereditary but like way less you know sort of intentionally like oh this is a strange character um but i don't know i can't uh disagree with you watching all the west wing yeah was great i mean her whole role is tv but i guess i kind of only this errin sorkan

episodes i was like okay this is a little too self-aware for my taste right now yeah it's one of those things where i'm like i don't necessarily put it beyond a character like this to have that level of observation or detail or dig into her interests or whatever uh but but that's a very writerly thing is to to name check yeah and just because you have julia roberts being like you watch west wing suddenly makes that believable i guess um ruth lampshading a little bit yeah ruth i like truth i thought ruth i mean ruth has to occupy the in-between space between the young kids and the adult adults and uh and i liked the inter i mean i liked her kind of vibe because she is the most uh the most contrast from everybody else and i think that her presence does interesting things

for all the different characters and yeah like i i should have written her to be more seductive that would have been more cliche so you could be more tempting to eat you Ethan Hawke's character. Yeah, yeah, and we can turn this into knock, knock all of a sudden. Yeah. I don't know. Like, I like that they flirted with that stuff and didn't go there. I like that she's like, yeah, he's not that guy.

Like, he wanted to, but he's not that guy. I liked things like that, and I thought they interplay between her and her father. It's like even though they are presented as a unit and, you know, there is a very us and them between, you know, the two pairs at first. Us or damn, coral. but I thought that their tension between each other was also a nice detail like a microcosm because of course he's going to try and be managing her expectations but also she's super sharp not very complacent not likely to be the kind to just accept whatever comfort is being sold thousand percent and I mean you know in terms of all the characters even though

Mahershala Ali seems to have the most concrete actionable knowledge of all of our main characters she does seem to be the one with like the most pragmatic attitude oh for sure and i thought her performance was uh was quite good too so i don't know i i like that character i liked her too i liked her too um everyone was really good and i thought the direction for for this was i actually really appreciated how we would see actual outside world stuff instead of just only like i like the stories where they just keep it contained in the house don't get me wrong like i'm a sucker for that and there's in one part of me that's like ooh i would have liked to have seen that version yeah um but uh as it stands i do think that this version that we got is pretty compelling

and i like the glimpses we would get when they would be like on the beach or when they would be on the road and the tesas are crashing or when they see the outside world uh new yorks in new york city uh being destroyed you're convincingly cut off from everything yeah yeah what's this movie called again leave the world behind Leave the world behind. Sorry, guys, got a preps and footage with simultaneously while talking because the time crunch. Oh, we got Kevin Bacon, I think, I think as Kevin Bacon has gotten, I wasn't a big fan of Kevin Bacon when I was a kid. But when he's got, as he's got an older, I have really grown to like, like, the older Kevin Bacon performance is a lot.

The grizzled Kevin Bacon. World weathered Kevin Bacon is a very good bacon. I really like, I mean, I've always, I've always kind of like it. that's a lot i've always liked Kevin bacon but i've never but i've especially liked him as he's gotten old yeah yeah i've been way more drawn to his like older man performances yeah yeah no because he brings a good amount of like presence and and yeah he can show up and and it feels like effortless but also like he showed up and here you know it's like you see him in that one shot and the movie was compelling enough that i forgot about him for a long time and even though

he's only in a brief sequence, you know, meaningfully, I thought, yeah, has he still showed up and really kind of, you know, fully committed to the kind of character who he is. And it's another aspect of the movie that is certainly playing on. And I like that this movie played on and used, but didn't get lost in, I don't get lost in, but I don't know, I think it's appropriate the way the movie used the sort of appearances and the suspicion based on appearances. You see this guy and you're like, okay, of course, this is the guy who would be prepared for all of this. And of course, for the two of us, the yuppie city guy and, you know, person of color out here on your American flag doorstep, you know, maybe there's some precariousness to this situation. And it's altogether different feeling than, you know, when they have the first meeting with, you know, Julie Roberts and Ethan Hawk on the porch.

but yeah it's like without it manages to encapsulate a lot of the fears and paranoias people have some that are primal and you know everybody has and some that are more societal and some that are based on yeah like cultural reservations and prejudices and whatnot

yeah that was great and I think the direction so I think the direction overall was excellent I think there's a lot of like really wonderfully shot sequences with some distorted angles and some beautiful symmetry throughout and they managed to make some and when they wanted to you have to make play scene movies feel very like cinematic and they

did yeah and and i think too when they did do sequences that uh were like out on the road or whatever on the beach they weren't like overshooting their load like it felt very much like oh no they they know what they're doing and this is really composed um music i thought was excellent all the harkening back to like old school types of horror again i kept in like twilight's own flares from it really enjoyed that sound design flourish they kept going for

oh yeah sound design it was great too yeah now I guess the the needle drops were were nicely contrasted for the most part now I guess the one thing

left to talk about is did you like the movie I did I did it's a movie I'm going to keep thinking about it it's a movie can you give me that hard drive certainly it's ejective in an immediate sense.

I love the kind of movie that makes you sit there and makes you sort of wonder and puts you in the paranoia and it feels like some big conspiracy is going down and it's kind of neat to me that a politic... What is essentially a political thriller about a terrorist attack or ostensibly is that they cut to the moon at one point.

Could be aliens, who knows. But, you know, it's almost like a political thriller without... It was interesting. You did get the sense of like, is it an alien invasion? Yeah, and it's fun because in that way, it feels like you're watching, yeah, an apocalypse movie, or maybe an alien invasion movie, or maybe some weird The Happening or whatever the house, The Knock at the Cabin ended up being

or something like- The Cabin in the woods? Yeah, the last house in the cabin. Oh, you didn't see that movie, did you? No, I haven't. It's very, I mean, that one's more, I don't want, that one's more religious-based. Sure, but, but at least from the trailer, that's sort of like, some thing is coming and there's, we're isolated and paranoid. and this will be kind of like a playmate

a thousand percent uh yeah so i i love that kind of a vibe and i like this movie was able to kind of keep you guessing as to like what version of that are we watching i thought it was appropriate where they landed to give you pretty much the idea without fully confirming the idea as we've sat here and talked about it it's sort of uh uh calcifying in a pretty agreeable way with me like initially the way where it ends i was like oh it would be such a meme if they end it right here, but also in thinking about it, I'm like, where else would I have ended this?

Because it ends off in a way where part of you is like, well, this could easily keep going, you know. But I think at least tonally right now, I kind of feel satisfied with what it is. I don't know exactly how great I would say this is compared to what its aspirations are, but I don't think it's falling very far short of its aspirations. And I think it's, at least right now, I thought it was pretty good. going to see okay i haven't seen the audience score yet right now it's got a 75% on uh rodent tomatoes i haven't seen the audience score okay uh i just want to get my opinion before it's influenced by the audience score that i've changed my entire yeah update it for the the crowd um but before we do that john um here i'm creating this little folder what did you think of obama's producing

I think he's trying to have another career post-presidency. He's just got nothing now. He's just out here hustling trying to get a buck. Can you put this in there? Yes, of course. I do think it's fun and charming that this is what they chose to produce. I think they produce other stuff. But, you know.

I think it speaks a little bit. I think it puts it in a certain kind of lens. Obama is secretly telling us what to look out for in terms of apocalypse I'm giving you government secrets in this movie guys I learned this shit this text keep this close and learn from it I like that I did like the movie

I enjoyed it and I was really into it like the first hour and 15 hour 20 minute mark and I kind of did sort of reveal already like where movies started slowly losing me a bit was when it does get bogged down more in the like everything stays strongly solid direction uh and the acting just remains phenomenal the acting really i think helps save a lot of

that last hour for me um and while i like the plot what while i like the plot and everything they're commentating on and and stuff and and sometimes the writing it's weird this movie is one of those things where it's all open to interpretation it doesn't ever it's it's a verge it borders on becoming so expositional about what its point is yes and then it also simultaneously leaves you with it didn't quite tell you what the point of the movie it didn't quite leave you with the answer like i it weirdly leaves you in this terrain of exposition heavy and ambiguity like at the same time and normally you don't get both and and it kind of leaves you We're both.

It definitely is one of those movies that is doing a big contrast of like, here's the plot stuff and we're not going to spoon feed you the actual story stuff. Yeah, and I think that I could have used a little bit more character-driven narrative and not lose sight of that, basically, as it were. It kind of seemed like you wanted to talk more about its ideas and then it would remind itself the storytelling. maybe it's like it in the book i don't really give a shit we're talking about the movie right um that it would remind itself like we got to be a little bit about the characters and the intensity of what's happened to the characters uh like everything with like

mehershali going to the beach and all that and the suspicions and then can they trust each other and should they go should the you know julie roberts and eithan hawk family should they leave that was also gripping to me whilst doing the commentary of what the hell's going on in the outside world like i was really enjoying that and And then when it kind of brought it back around to the scene with Kevin Bacon at the end of like that immediacy. And I was going like, I don't want Mersewalee to die right now. And nor do I want Ethan Octod die right. I don't want anyone to get shot right now.

Yeah, totally. Like I hope none of these guys get killed. Yeah. And it's not like I ever stopped caring during the film, but I did start to feel its runtime at a certain point. Yeah. Because I wasn't as invested in the character narrative. and I was finding it be more about what it wants to talk about

than it does want to tell it through the lens of the characters. And that's the one thing about its focus that I wish it honed in on a little bit more. So overall, I really did like it. Like I think there's a lot of craftsmanship to it that I really enjoyed

and, you know, for a street, for, in a day and age where Netflix dumps like a billion originals and whatever, I could see why this one stood out, why this one became a conversation not only because of what it's conversing with this audience about but because of its caliber of filmmaking that it does you know and like there is some real filmmaking to this i could have seen this as a theater experience you know uh it doesn't feel like

made for tv or made directly for stream like i could have seen this as a theater going to i think that i think if it was the theater they probably would have wanted a more concrete ending that probably would have wanted something that lays it out a little bit better for its audience because I could see a scenario where some people feel like it's abrupt the way it ends. Whereas you were able to, because I didn't, I actually didn't think it was going to end when it ended. Whereas you were here going, please let it end now, please, and it did, and you were satisfied. And for me, I didn't even get an inkling that I was going to end right there. Sure, and I bet a lot of people might not.

Because you watch as like a bunch of days. There's a low-ass audience going on. That is a real. That is a really low. Holy balls. That is a low audience score. Because you do watch a bunch of things that are loosely together, like really kind of scatter, and then the movie ends. It's like they're all separated and they're all.

Seems like most people are pretty of seconds of the ending. I bet. Because you get this quick five seconds of scrolling. Because you reach this crescendo with all the deer and you're like, wow, where the you? And something happened with the sign. I guess he just did. have Lyme disease, like a Lyme disease, fast acting, teeth falling. Like, like, yeah, you have these crescendos of like, they've run off into the woods,

and they have this thing with the deer, and she's looking off at the beach, and the explosion's happening. And then Ethan Hawking or Hershali, they're all down the road, and there was Kevin Biggin. And the girl, she's in the panic room. And, uh, and, and, and yeah, it ends at a point where everything feels, I think, innately, kind of like you're in the middle of something, you know? And, uh, and yeah, I think it's a thematic end point that, at least, again, to me right now, I'm not 100% clicked in

on, but I'm like, yeah, I appreciate the quirk of this choice, but I can also absolutely see people hating that, because it gets you to that point where you're like, the only real direction you have is when Ethan Hawke and Marshall Ali are leaving Kevin Bacon. They're like, well, I guess we're just going to go back

and we got the medicine. But the rest is all like, you know, they're shouting still trying to find Rose, and Rose is off doing her own thing. And like, yeah, I can, it just it all feels like a bunch of big things presented and then it's and then it's immediately done you know yeah yeah i because i do think that sometimes the i do feel like sometimes the dialogue overall while again like so much goes to the directors especially i mean the actors especially and then occasionally some certain

choice with the directors uh with the direction like like um when like when like when marishali is first giving this the spiel a spiel about government agent defense person and not saying who it is and then there's this little moment where he like puts his hand on her to stop her from getting her drink and he gets a little more serious than the camera closed i'm like okay that was a good way to make that more interesting yeah um because sometimes it feels like they're it could be easy for some moments when i pull out to go this kind of feels like rambling pretentiousness sure sure sure sure but i didn't ever fully get there uh yeah with any with any moment even though at times that's that's what I meant by how it would ride this line where I feel like I'm getting so told what this movie's about and then going what is this movie about exactly yeah yeah totally I get you yeah it's like you have to look at everything and assume that most everything we are being given or shown is important somehow and I didn't think we needed the like as much as I felt like Kevin Bacon played that role and this is coming from a from a man who identifies as liberal or I'll tell you this guy identifies as liberal and at his funny as I thought the moment was. I thought it was really funny. Oh, God. But the Korean or whatever.

Maybe it's Chinese. Yeah. As much, because this movie's produced by Obama. Yeah. And Hollywood is full of bunch of leftists. That's right, boy. I think that you could have saved yourself a lot of, when already a lot of this is very much like, leftist scare tactics.

Where the fuck you want to call it, right? as it's already there and so much of the sentiment we obviously agree with right i think cutting that out probably would have helped the movie's points get across a little bit because then it's especially for that to be so close to the end of the film yeah that does kind of cloud a lot of i'm like because you don't need to like if if this movie wants to be about its messages If this movie wants to be about its commentary. Yeah. To some extent, right?

And, like, I think doing something that specifically, obviously, is going against, you know, like your typical right-wing personality, which I think was in the form of Kevin Bacon. That's the way I saw it. Well, yeah, he is. This big American flag or like the Korean or tiny, you know, and I got my society part. shit all sorted out yeah it's meant to appear a certain way at face value yeah yeah yeah so uh and i mean i think i think having that line excise probably would have saved a little bit of blowback perhaps yeah i'm curious because i mean you know maybe i'm really forward to it that i need to it i i personally

just feel that way i'm i am i don't know i'd be curious to hear people's thoughts i mean i think it does draw the main I mean Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawk I feel like are drawn as kind of a yuppie neoliberal couple in a way that isn't overt as it is in like a get out but like in a way that is clearly commenting

on them as people and hey even though they might appear you know like this you know both beautiful and also you know like I don't know they they get to the dysfunction of their family later but you know they appear as like you know a hip and with it couple and he is very open and accepting of things and and all that

and yeah they're not really all that they want to sell you that they are uh and then yeah you have kevin bacon who's like a much more bold face sort of yeah it's just a thing you would expect from a character like that and so if the one is more subtle and the other is not yeah because you have like julia roberts who is pretty much admitting to like yeah i had subconscious racism definitely factoring in when I first met you like she's yeah characters admitting to that and the whole I hate people in general I hate people in general or even like I could see the Spanish speaking woman as a fear of the unknown again with you know um yeah like I coming into our country I accept all people but when I have to deal with them I don't know what to do yeah I don't feel like we are as the same as I would say in polite conversation or whatever yeah and you know again to hammer in that point of the movie of we aren't really do doing enough. Yeah. And we can say a lot and we can think we're contributing, but we're really not.

Yeah. And there's so much we do every day that is kind of meaningless and performative and all that stuff. Yeah, I think when you get to that whole thing at the end with Kevin Bagan's character, which is those little couple lines. It's like, a little much. It is. I thought it was really funny.

I think like the delivery, intentionally funny. Like I thought delivery was so good. You know, yeah, yeah. But I do think that you're already like pushing the boundaries and it's your political point of views here. This movie's very political. It's extremely political. Yeah. And it's not and it's not like without that beat, you wouldn't be able to communicate the idea that the leaflets that Ethan Hawke finds, you know, being.

You can still establish that the same thing happened with leaflets printed in Korean or Chinese or whatever. And that it's all part of a misinformation scheme without. that little character you know nick of like oh yeah and he doesn't care what the difference is sure sure you know at first he seems so sure it's korea and the second someone's like are you sure he's like well i don't know it can be anything which again i guess i'm i'm torn because it is funny and it's like a real thing and it serves the moment in that initially you think again oh this guy must know and then it's like well he doesn't really know he just has like a vague piece of context yeah about as good as you're going to get yeah but

But, yeah, I mean, at the same time, it is one of the more directly caricaturous-ish elements of the characterization here. Yeah, even though he's the one who's the survival one. He's the one who has ahead of the curb here. And he helps out. I mean, he does eventually take the money and give them the pills. Even though, but I just think of taking a jab at that kind of negates. Like, you're already painting this guy already not the greatest light. Yeah.

You don't need to do, like, that additional stuff. Because we already know what's better about Ethan Hawken, Marshall Ali, being able to team up where clearly this guy's not going to be willing to team up with y'all. Like, the contrast will be there, whether we have that, yeah, beat or not. Yeah, man. But overall, I liked it. Overall, I thought, overall, I really enjoyed it. And it's a good time.

And maybe one day I'll watch it again. Maybe. It's no bird box. Sile, maybe not. A movie I could not finish. Oh, a movie I haven't even started. Couldn't do it. Aw.

I was like, I'm going to put it on. And I was like 40 minutes. I was like, I don't think I like that only this movie is for me. Wow. I'm excited now. I'm going to check it out. I did not like the, it was so much about it. I really didn't like it.

Really? Yeah, I just got to get on board with it. Oh, I have so many questions now. And as the movie will leave you with. I think. I don't know. Stop 40 minutes. It definitely got to ask questions to finish it.

It's good to say the characters, man. It's good stand it. That's fair. That's fair. That felt like a streaming movie to me, for sure. This felt way more above that. Okay. Okay. Did it feel...

Even though I know people like Birdbox way more than this from me. I was going to say, did that movie feel very high on its messaging? Did it feel very like... I don't recall. We're doing profound shit over here in the Bird Box. I don't recall thinking. I just remember really not finding the characters believable. And to me, it was the characters.

I just didn't like the characters. Okay. Good to know. And I didn't think the good actors were enough to elevate or help me see past how terrible the characters were. Sandy didn't save the moon. I don't remember who that is. Sandra Bullock. Oh, yes.

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