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Episode 037.3 - Reviews for 1 August 2024
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Reviews of Shaun Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine, Osgood Perkins’ LongLegs and Josh Margolin’s Thelma with June Squibb
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Introduction to Key Films
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Incoming transmission. um
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Two oceans.
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This week, we're looking at two big crowd pleasers in Sean Levy's Deadpool and Wolverine and Osgood Perkins' Long Legs, as well as Josh Margolin's Thelma with June Squibb. So
Exploring Deadpool and Wolverine's Cinematic Elements
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I guess to kick things off, Deadpool and Wolverine from Sean Levy. It's a movie. Yes, it is a movie. It's and causing some upset in some of the more snooty circles of cinematic review. Can't escape it. This is the thing. It's definitely a popcorn flick. Yeah. Popcorn, comic book, comedy, movie. Which is the whole series has been. We've always had movies like this. You know, the 80s were dominated by Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters. There are always going to be movies like this, but there's always room for those more highbrow movies, you know. Those
Disney's Influence on Deadpool's Character
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have a smaller audience. Indeed. Yeah, but what were your thoughts? Yeah. I mean, I enjoyed the previous two movies. I think I enjoyed them better under Fox than I will under Disney for those, for that character, just because there's only so far Disney will go and will allow things to happen even with something of the this, you know, well, I'd say juggernaut, but that's a character. So a vehicle of this size, let's say. Sure. I mean, I don't think Sean Levy would be my first choice to direct a Deadpool and Wolverine movie.
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No, I don't understand that one because that's a lot of it that just seems like out of his grasp to balance everything. It doesn't seem, it's not a very well balanced movie now. What it seems
The Cast of Deadpool and Wolverine
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to me though more of, it's less of a Deadpool movie and more of a Wolverine movie, like Wolverine gets the meatier stuff. It's like um a Wolverine homage even. Exactly. Don't even know if it's like a Wolverine movie, but I mean, they do bring back the cast, which is a stellar cast. You've got Rob Delaney as Peter is fantastic. Exit TJ Miller, which is also a nice upgrade. Leslie Uggams as well as Blind Al. I mean, she always steals the show. Yes.
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But yeah, it's a really good cast. And I think the addition of Hugh Jackman and surprisingly, what really caught me out of nowhere was Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova. I thought she was fantastic. And she reminded me of Samantha Morton, which is a great thing, though I thought her character could have done with more development. But but
Marvel's Villain Portrayals and Robert Downey Jr.'s Return
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aside from that, what she was given, she just knocked it out of the park. Oh, yeah. And also, actresses apparently identify as non-binary, so they... Oh, right. Okay, thank you. their Their role was very good. Yes, I just saw that the other day. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. ah Oh, I didn't even realize that. I've been reading other reviews that have made the same mistake that I just did. And thank you for correcting me. so yeah um Among the more fluid elements, this is another one, right? We got it.
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Yeah, try to stay on top of. But no, I'd agree. I thought they were good. I thought the villain was underserved. But again, that's been a Marvel problem as of late anyway, and with their latest news of because of Jonathan Major's legal trouble and dumping him and then throwing off the whole Kang thing. Now they're going with Dr. Doom and then they're bringing back Robert Downey Jr. because
Immersion and Fan Service in Deadpool and Wolverine
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apparently there's no other actors in the world. Really, he's getting a massive amount of money for it as well. Oh, well, good for him. that's He probably needs it, you know? What? So it's legal bills from the 90s. Sure. Yeah, got to pay off the Columbians. That's right.
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But overall, the movie itself, though, I did enjoy. There was a lot of good fan service. And you know I went with my wife, who's not nerd like I am with this stuff, and she still had a good time with it. I went with a couple of friends and they're they're not big comic book people either and they were laughing out loud throughout and it was a good sized audience as well. And you know, i I think I've always said it's really important to kind of immerse yourself in a film, but I think it's a different sort of set of rules for a popcorn movie like this because it's more about immersing yourself in the audience. and as well as the film yeah
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yeah Yeah, it's kind of a shared experience. And I think, well, it's I had a similar thing with hundreds of beavers as well is that the audience really, really helped enhance my experience watching that movie, as did the audience in ah Deadpool and Wolverine. I mean, people seem to really enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah. And they seem to get, you know, you'd see you'd hear different people laughing at like, oh, they got that joke. You know, the
Nostalgia and Comic References in Deadpool and Wolverine
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the comic appropriate sized Wolverine, for example. Yes. That pops up and those sorts of things. I mean, in I'm glad I gave the trailers a miss because especially with the comedy movies, they tend to throw up some of the funniest lines in the trailer, which is never a great thing. But kind of going back to what some of the press are saying, I mean, there have been a lot of complaints about the success of the film, which is strange. And like I said, you know, there have been popcorn movies forever, you know, especially summer. Summer is a time of popcorn. I mean, that's exactly nothing new. It's not going to ruin. If anything, it provides much needed revenue to struggling cinemas, you know. So, yeah, it's it's, you know, win win. Variety called it the most depressing success story. And I read the article today.
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And I think there's a misunderstanding because the person who had written it, he was talking about how they engineered it and how much artifice there was in this movie. And everything that he was citing, I don't think he realized this, but was written in the 1980s in comic book form. So there were there were elements that we were reading way back when that they they brought into this movie. And you sort of talked about all those references.
Sean Levy's Direction and Film's Opening Sequence
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Well, I i noticed them, you know, they the the the battle with Hulk, with the Hulk being reflected in the claws is that classic cover. And it was nice to see. And it was it was the kind of thing that you could include in there without alienating the rest of the audience. Right. Yeah.
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I'm like, oh, there's Hulk. There you go. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah, I was i was impressed. Speaking of the trailer and the giveaways and such, I was impressed of how much they didn't give away in the trailers and enter in the other stuff too. And then they you know the stuff that's come afterwards of who was in the multitude of Deadpools, who was playing whom, and and which ones they'd worked in. And so that was fun. Yeah, and there were some twists in there that that I didn't see coming. Yeah, some some polite nods to those storylines that have production problems or or lack thereof, you know, between Gambit and Blade and yeah all those. That's just a nice way to do it as well, you know, sort of introducing those concepts into the Disney MCU thing versus, and then the credits thing, the behind the that behindthe scenes, trailer-y sort of thing and during the credit sequence to give a nice
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you know for good and for bad should give the nice nod to what Fox did, what 20th century Fox did, and and that that's over. Yeah, I thought it was nice as well. I thought that was really well done. Yeah, and I thought, again, performance was good. i thought I thought it was way too long. Once he once wolverine once Jackman pulled up the original Wolverine mask, the helmet mask sort of thing, I was just like, that's wait that's so long overdue. It looks so good. I mean, this is the old nerd in me. I'm like, that that should have been the thing. I know he didn't want to hide his face, you know, ever, that whole thing, but I mean, come on. I mean, that, you know, this seemed more like a a, you know, Wolverine that is, at is more you know, more more primal sort of thing than any of the other movies, the Wolverine movies had done.
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yeah either, which was fun to explore. I mean, it was fun for them to explore, but it was also, I think it just provided the most ah a fitting and tie off crossover from one studio or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, it's crazy. It took so long. I mean, we we, we got to see the mask in a tease, you know, over a decade ago, you know, probably about 15 years or more. And we actually never got to see him wear it until, till this point. Yeah. But yeah, kind of going back to the Shawn Levy direction, it is really uneven. And I think the bits where it actually, I think, peaks are the choreographed needle drop bite sequences. They are funny.
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they are inventive, they're so much fun and that opening sequence with NSYNC as well is is is a great way to get the audience on board with the movie because that just had just a ton of laughs and I can't remember having an experience like that in a cinema since going to see the Barbie movie because that had a sort of similar opening where the entire audience was on board, they were laughing, and you know they were rubbing their hands together to watch the rest of the movie.
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Yeah, agreed. Okay. So that is Deadpool and Wolverine, which, you know, take it for what it is. You should be expecting anything kind of more than he yes what it promises to be, which is a comic book movie. And
Review of Osgood Perkins' Long Legs
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next up, we've got Osgood Perkins, Long Legs. So this is another one that has a huge amount of success in the cinema recently. Yes. A lot of press. A lot of people talking about it. And yeah, I finally saw it and I was like, It was funny, the whole time I'm watching, I'm like, man, this reminds me of Black Goat's Daughter, but that movie was better. And I'm like, oh yeah, same director, duh. black Black Goat's Daughter, is that what it's called? Yeah, it was a previous film of his. Gonna have to check that out. That one's fantastic. That one's along the same lines of creepiness and moodiness of Autopsy of Jane Doe.
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that kind of feel to it, but much more, you know, the same sinister sort of thing too. And Kiernan Shipka, who has a bit role in Long Legs, is the main in that movie as well. But yeah, I mean, some of the things I enjoyed, I liked I really like Nicolas Cage in this movie. The leads, I thought, were fantastic. The story was, I mean, OK. I mean, it felt right felt very familiar in a lot of ways. Didn't feel like we were pushing new boundaries or grounds. the way ah But of course, this is a the way it had been built up from word of mouth and from press and things like that that I had happened to see anyway. It sounded like it was like you know this next new thing in horror.
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I'm like, I'm like, yeah it's good. It's good. Yeah.
Visual Style and Cinematography in Long Legs
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Yeah. it's It's not a bad movie. I'm not saying I don't want to convey that at all. No, I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was good. It just wasn't nearly as, you know, mind altering or whatever. sure and I think that's been a problem for a lot of people is in terms of the, it's got a hundred percent rotten tomatoes score, you know, kind of thing. Now, I mean, where i where I would say it stands out for me and I enjoyed it the most was in terms of its editing and how it looks. It looks great. I love the opening with that 4.3 aspect ratio with its washed out palette, which felt like looking at an old photo album. Yeah. And for us, it would, right? Exactly.
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Yeah, so it's like those great that color palette that that's us like nine months out of the year. Absolutely. Absolutely. and And it's that that was terrific. And you know, much kudos to cinematographer Andreas Orochi for his work here, because this is his first big film, right? And I think he's planted his flag with this, because he raises the film to another level. Yeah, but I think for me, unfortunately, I don't think the direction matched the level of the visuals. And I think it's one of the problems that you have when you have a writer-director sometimes is is a lot of the best movies that have the same director as writer also have a co-writer on it. So Jorgos Lanthimos, for example, always works with someone else.
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Yeah. Because you need someone sometimes to pull you back, right? Yeah. Peter Jackson with Fran Walsh, they always... Right. Exactly. And I think that's that's missing here. And there's some strange choices, and I'll just do the little spoiler ding. Ding. Ding. That the choice to make her psychic, I didn't know why they did that. Very confused with that too. i I didn't think it was needed. I
Nicolas Cage's Role and Film Tension
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think i think if she she just through good detective work had reached the goals that that she does, like realizing which house to go to, that would have worked a lot better, because I was expecting that to be part of the storyline, but it never it never really... No. Until the doll version of her gets shot in the head and she feels it or something like that, and that weird
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effect, the smoke, almost tangible smoke sort of thing kind of arises out again. Yeah. It was just kind of like, like they'd thrown that in or like, Oh, we got to fix that. We introduced that earlier. I want to keep it. This will explain it without explaining it. It was very, very lazy. It felt lazy. Yes. And, and actually when they did shoot the, the orb at the the doll's head and you had that sort of smoke coming out, there is almost a like for like scene from twin peaks, the return. with the in the dark place, there's that weird tree thing and it's got a sort of similar thing kind of going on. But yeah, and Cage. So I think I've got a slightly different sort of take on Cage on this one than than you do just very slightly. And I think I think it has a lot to do with the way that he was shown, because early on, when you only saw like his nose down or parts of him or yeah I found that a lot more menacing the way that they filmed him. yeah And then when they
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put him full on and on the screen. It wasn't quite as effective for me. And that scene in the hardware shop felt really unconvincing to me. And I suppose the other thing that kind of makes me kind of wince a little bit is the decision to make him kind of have echoes of Buffalo Bill from Silence the Lambs, which was problematic, you know, three decades ago. So that was a strange, strange choice. I mean, in in i that that opening scene, though, where you can only see his mouth and lips is... I was kind of hoping that they would keep that.
Narrative Choices and Character Development in Long Legs
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Yeah, me too. That you would never get the full reveal, but at the end when you see him full and I'm like, oh, he looks like Robert Smith does now or something, you know. I mean, it's funny because there are different ways that you can take characters like that and you can go the opposite direction to make them scarier. So like an example with this would be rather than making him weird all the time, is that, for example, when he's in the shop, he might be shy and quiet and staring at his shoes, you know. Exactly. Um, where, whereas I think that whole thing that he does with the hands was a bit, it was a bit over the line for me. I was like, Oh, come on. You know, I, if he lives locally, does she not know him? Exactly. Like calling out like, Hey, let's yeah. Well, she said, yeah, the weird guy's here again or whatever. Exactly. Exactly. I think he would, you know, kind of hide that that's not a good hiding thing. Yeah. In public, he would be one way. And then in his, again, the Buffalo bill thing is problematic as it is, but you know, his whole,
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dance sequence you know in front of the mirror and everything like that is right who he wants to be, how he wants to be in the world. Yeah. Yeah. I just sort of felt like what the first half of the film promised didn't really kind of deliver in the second half. And where this kind of falls for me as far as horror movies go is kind of similar to Smile, which I thought like as another film that I thought was okay, but always felt like it had the potential to be so much more. So yeah. So, you know, also overhyped. Yes. Also totally overhyped, but
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good on its own, it's just been done better, you know, in the case of that one as well. So, yeah, I like to say I enjoyed also, you know, like call it Alicia Witt being in there as well. That was very cool to see her back in action and doing a great role she can really sink her teeth into. you know that's ah she's totally she's a great She's much more, to me, she was much more the villain of the story yeah than Nicolas Cage. Like, oh look, Nicolas Cage is crazy. What a shock. you know It's the the total recall thing. you know Arnold Schwarzenegger's a huge action hero in disguise? No. I didn't see that coming. What a surprise.
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Funny you mentioned that because we were just talking about kind of going against type and for effectiveness. In the original story of Total Recall, the character was very much like if not modeled after Woody Allen, right? He's meant to be this weakling who's thrown into this crazy situation, so you feel that he's vulnerable. And Then you put Arnold Schwarzenegger there and you lose all of that sort of functionality. Which is still fun for different reasons. The rumor was when Cronenberg was attached to that project, a total recall, he wanted Richard Dreyfuss.
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in the role. See, that sounds great. That movie, that's one I want to see. yeah yeah yeah But anyway, but no, I thought in this, yeah. And I think she the the mom that played by Alicia Witt in in Long Lakes is meant to be, meant to take over more of that villain. Her role is this intermediary between the full evil and the human world. And she and so and that's that's the real horror, yeah like someone who would for the best intentions, but mess everything up, you know, just go to these awful extremes, but for the best intentions. So, you know,
Character Dynamics in Thelma
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in that, in that, you know, again, on paper, I think it makes a better balance than what we got with, because as soon as you cast Nicholas Cage, then that's all you're going to get, you know, sure, then you're dialed up to 11, whether you want it or not.
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whether it serves a story or not. Like I said, it kind of does here, but eh. I think the other thing is like Micah Munroe's character, Lee Harker. I don't, I think they threw things out there, but they didn't develop them. So for example, you have that whole thing where he's, she was like like, you know, I didn't want to say my prayers because they scared me. Right. And then you had this religious aspect that is creepy, but it never went anywhere. It didn't go anywhere. Yeah. I was waiting for that to resolve. I'm like, Oh, that that's going to explain why she's this or that or, Oh, Nope. No, none of that. I mean, the weird thing is, is she has a conversation with her mother who says, well, cause her mother's is the one that's telling her that she needs to pray.
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And then when she admits to her mother that she hasn't prayed, her mother basically turns around and says, well, it doesn't really work anyhow. yeah and think It's just like, what? Huh? Yeah. What's going on on here? And then like I said, the whole psychic thing, I think making Lee Harker as a character as down to earth and as much like us, the audience would have made it a lot better Because that's the other thing, I didn't quite buy all the FBI scenes as well. It felt really unconvincing to me for whatever reason. like we We never got to see her in the office. like At least in Silence of the Lambs, and I know Silence of the Lambs is that kind of augmented reality kind of... you know, craziness, yeah a pulp kind of movie. But, you know, you you had that kind of earnestness in the offices and you had Roger Corman, you know, on the phone being very serious, you know, had all that good stuff. And it it it felt like a busy office and, you know, that they were, you know, they were doing detective work, whereas here it always felt like they're almost like Jehovah's Witnesses, you know, going and door to door. So, it never never quite kind of sunk in. And the detective work was not scripted well. you know It was okay. It got you to the next step. it yeah it It felt purely functional, not developed. There was no point where I was going, oh, that's clever. I've never seen that before. But you know the whole thing with like, okay, then we draw the triangle and we connect this. And it's like, i've seen I've seen this a hundred times. but
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Yeah, yeah, it's ah yeah kind of going for this weird X-Files sort of thing and it just didn't quite land it. yeah But moving on, we have now Josh Margolin's Thelma, which is a charming little movie with June Squibb. Indeed, yeah you know i yeah. I enjoyed the hell out of this one, just because mostly the main character reminded me so much of my own mother, just like with the computer and the mobility and things like that. And I know it was based on his own.
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grandmother or grandmother, whatever it was in there, but it was just so close. I'm like, wow. We don't get many multi-generational movies like this, and here we have three generations, because we have Parker Posey and Clark Craig as well. They're kind of bland, but the key relationship is between Thelma and Daniel. And Fred Heschinger as Daniel, he is pitch perfect. I mean, he's so good. He's so convincing and he's just such a lovely character in the movie as well. And yeah, Richard Roundtree, you know, of Shaft fame. It was great to see him in there. And June Squibb is 94 as of this moment. Yeah, she's the age of the character, yes.
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It's mad, isn't it? I mean, i she is so sharp still though. oh yeah And it's great to see that she got like a lead role. She was great in Nebraska. She was great in about Schmidt. And, you know, yeah again, one of these these actors that, you know, we've been waiting a long time for them to get a kind of lead role, but they're not white men. So, you know, I guess you have to wait until you're 94. right fun me has a passion The one thing I did really like about Thelma is the the fact that they at the outset they took it as an action movie. The beats they use, the thing the majority of stuff they use in it.
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It's meant to be you know like an action like an action movie, not yeah not an action movie, but like it. And so that the you know you get some humor, but it's not it's not really punching down you know them walking away and not hearing an explosion of something. They accident you know they they get to walk away from the explosions but because as they don't hear it. yeah So they just they they get the cool walking away. or her her flipping across the bed, which, you know, it's just like, hey this is how you have to do it when you're old.
Thelma's Journey and Generational Themes
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Like, you know, you like get moving and like, ah and roll across, you know, or or the fact that they use their, their hearing aids, like listening devices and a mission impossible movie. Exactly. There's a lot of little element and the music, the soundtrack that goes with it too, we're very much in line with that. I thought that was a smart play. Also it makes it so again, so you're not laughing at them. You're just like, Oh, that's, you know, this is their pace and this is what they're doing. yeah you know you're you're you're You're setting the limits, but you're also you taking the doors off a bit you know and letting those letting those breathe a little more easily into that reality again. So it's not you know it's meant to be a tribute, not a yeah not a comedy in that sense of the word.
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But it feels just real enough. I think they they strike the balance pretty well. like there There is a point, spoiler, where June's Squib, Delma falls over. And you know Richard Rountree previously kind of mentioned that in the nursing home that they learned how to help each other up when they fall. And she felt so vulnerable at that point. Do we have a a sound effect when you say the theme of the movie? Because you just did, and I didn't know if you had something to play, the the helping each other up. Because that's really what, ultimately, the whole story is about. That's what every character interaction is, ultimately. There we go. That'll work.
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But ultimately, that's what every character interaction is about, right, in that. yeah Because her thing is like, you know, and she confesses to Richard Rentry when she's just saying, you know, it's like, I don't like him, I don't want to get close. She doesn't want to get close to anybody she's because she's finally got a bout of independence when she's really old, but she's loving it. yeah And she just wishes, she says, you know she I wish I had more of that. Because, you know, went from living with my parents to my husband, and then we were married for, you know, 60 odd years and now I'm alone and it feels good to be alone. Right. like but You have the flip side of the coin though with Daniel, who's in his twenties, who is, he's found himself alone. He feels like he doesn't have any direction. He doesn't know what he's going to do. yeah He has lots of self doubt. You know, he's worried about Thelma because you know, she, he he wants to spend more time with
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with her, because he knows he does there isn't that much time left. you know He feels abandoned by life, but not by people in his life, which I think is a cool distinction for a movie to make. Because usually it's said like, oh no, you got to reel it. And it's the same, it's kind of the, again, the inverse right with the main character, that she's pushed people, kept them at length because she doesn't want that in. not because of anything harm, but its just like she thinks it's going to compromise her independence and her the life that she issue feels like she wants to live without realizing, oh, there's something more to be there's something more to life to be enjoyed in the company of others in some kind of community, whether that's family, whether that's community, whether that's friends, whether you know whatever it looks like, they they subtly
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give you all slices of that. Like, my favorite thing for the for the younger guy, ah when he he has ah gets the call from his ex-girlfriend, who's just like, you know ah you know, on a break from work, and she's just like, no, I totally believe in you, dude. You know, it's like, we're not right together, but that's not a, you know, yeah it wasn't, it was totally stripped of all the trappings that would normally hit this kind of movie or this kind of story. And just to be like, you know, and well granted it serves the white guy, but you know, this is a person with some serious problems. It's just, ah yeah again, the helping each other up thing. That's
Thelma's Exploration of Life's Balance
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totally what she does. In the same way that Richard Rountree helps Thelma but out of the other one she's you know given up on the feet on that middle of the you under the power lines and yeah that same kind of idea. And I think Richard Rountree says at one point, it doesn't cost anything. It doesn't take anything to be that way.
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And they go that's kind of the core thing. It's like, yeah, it doesn't. You're right. We don't have to be antagonistic or we don't have to be, you know, you can look for those opportunities and and speak to them when they arise. I mean, the funny thing is, is that you had that middle generation, Clark Gregg and Parker Posey, and they are, they've they've still not got to that realization that Thelma's reached. And they're well-meaning, but they're they're extremely misguided. And and you know at the very least, Daniel is is grounded in in in what's in front of him, whereas those two seem to be completely bought into the capitalistic, this is your role, this is what you need to do. Well, that they have everything can be explained or controlled or fixed. And his is like, this is not fixed. yeah know
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ah you know And then his you know the younger on on the one end is like, this is seriously broken and it's not fixable by anything you're saying, clearly. yeah part of the Part of what you've been saying is the reason it's broken. and versus you know that's why he finds it with Thelma on the other end. It's just like, ah, this stuff doesn't matter. you know Enjoy this, enjoy that you know kind of thing. It's just more of a holistic life approach rather than the, like you said, buying into the systematic, this is how you this is how you adult right approach because that's all they had to work on. so you know and they I think they recognize that generational, I'm not gonna call it generational trauma, but it's that kind of, it kind of is. you know that that like kind of Well, we pass it on. We want to make it better for you, but this is how you make it better. Like, well, no, this is how you make it better. Well, no, this is how, you know, and everybody's wrong. And once you realize that, then nobody has to be wrong anymore. They can just
Preview of Upcoming Films
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be. Yeah. And not to put people off. it's This is not a heavy movie at all, but it is thoughtful. You know, it's not very done, you know, off the cuff. it it It feels very sincere. It has a lot of heart. There are no loose ends of character.
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motivations or traits that are not chased down or left to or explained away or discarded or anything like that as we saw in the other two films. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, if anything, this is probably the tightest of the three films that we just talked about. Easily. Easily. And R.A.P. to Richard Roundtree because this was his final film. Yeah. ah Anyhow, so next week we have ah two feature-length debuts and a follow-up to 2021's Excellent Pig, ah and Vera Drew's The People's Joker, which will be our headliner next week, Mike Cheslick's Hundreds of Beavers, and ah Michael Samoski's A Quiet Place Day One. So yeah.
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