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Speaker 2: love No Other cool A. Hey, thanks for your feedback

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Speaker 2: get through very shortly. Right now, though, it's time to

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Speaker 2: catch up with our film reviewer, Francesca Rudkin is here, Kilda.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Okay, two films to talk to. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: have already lamented the title of our second film, so

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Speaker 2: we'll get to that in a couple of minutes. It's

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Speaker 2: been grinding my gears, but let's start off with a

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Speaker 2: new movie showing and cinemas at the moment. This is Megalopolis.

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Speaker 4: Imagine today's society as a branch of civilization. I'm about

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Speaker 4: to reach your dead end. Is this where we're living

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Speaker 4: the only one that's available to us?

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Speaker 2: Baba ba, that's Megalopolis.

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Speaker 5: Yes. This is the sci fi drama written, interrupted and

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Speaker 5: produced by Francis bard Cropola that he has. The eighty

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Speaker 5: five year old director has been working on this project

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Speaker 5: for decades. It is alf funded passion project. He's around

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Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty million dollars in to make this

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Speaker 5: film and it played it can. It was picked up

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Speaker 5: by Lionsgate to have it released in cinemas, which is

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Speaker 5: really good because it must be.

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Speaker 3: Seen in a cinema.

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Speaker 5: This film is audacious, it is just polarizing. It's absolutely nutty,

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Speaker 5: but it needs to be seen on the big screen.

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Speaker 5: It's set in futuristic America that resembles ancient Rome, and

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Speaker 5: and River plays an architect called Caesar. He's a visionary

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Speaker 5: and it's his job to determine how to rebuild the

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Speaker 5: metropolis of New Rome after a disaster, and it's kind

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Speaker 5: of a battle for the soul of the city and

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Speaker 5: he's backling against the mayor and the rich and the powerful.

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Speaker 5: It's like an ancient myth or fable put into a

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Speaker 5: modern city.

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Speaker 2: Jack.

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Speaker 5: I saw this film on Wednesday. I still do not

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Speaker 5: have my head around it.

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Speaker 3: I do not know whether this film is.

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Speaker 5: A masterpiece an absolute disaster. It is equally frustrating as

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Speaker 5: it is at times stunning and beautiful. There are scenes

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Speaker 5: in this film that I'm there, I'm in it, I'm

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Speaker 5: in this world, and then there are other scenes where

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Speaker 5: I'm just going, oh my goodness, this is two hours

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Speaker 5: and eighteen minutes of my life. I'm never going to

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Speaker 5: get back. The film obviously looks at sort of power

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Speaker 5: and corruption and art and creativity and the impact of

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Speaker 5: progress and of standing still, but it just struggles to

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Speaker 5: get into a throw. He is throwing so much at us,

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Speaker 5: and it's not terribly subtle at times, and the film

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Speaker 5: sort of starts off, I got all, this just looks amazing,

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Speaker 5: this is meal great. And then the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 5: Adam Driver's character is doing Shakespeare's soliloquy and I'm like, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: no no, I don't need Shakespeare as much. And so

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Speaker 5: there's all these sort of subplots, and you know, it's

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Speaker 5: it's it. Really you have to see it to believe it.

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Speaker 5: But I would highly recommend that you watch the trailer first.

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Speaker 3: It is it is our house. It is bonkers.

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Speaker 5: It's for a discerning film goer, you know, if you're thinking, oh, good,

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Speaker 5: I love you.

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Speaker 3: Know the goal, but I just want to watch this.

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Speaker 5: There's so much about it which is amazing, but then

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Speaker 5: there's so much about it which is really frustrating and

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Speaker 5: just just just bonkers. As you can tell, I'm really

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Speaker 5: really just sitting on the sidelines with us great cast,

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Speaker 5: and I'm pretty sure that everybody, no one will care

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Speaker 5: what You're either going to love it or hate it.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think if you're involved in this film,

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Speaker 3: you wouldn't matter.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't You wouldn't care what the reviews are, because

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Speaker 5: you would go. I was involved in something quite unique

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Speaker 5: and audacious and I got to work with Francis Ford,

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Speaker 5: and that's all it means.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unique is good is good. Different is good. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like a big movie mash. It sounds like just

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Speaker 2: a big like like you know, like someone's just throwing

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I can't even go into all these little

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Speaker 5: examples of just how unsubtled is it and how much he.

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Speaker 3: Throws at you. And yeah, so a part of me

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Speaker 3: loved it, part of me hated it.

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Speaker 5: And I think it's probably going to take another viewer

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Speaker 3: A little bit of time before I find which side of.

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Speaker 2: Nice okay that sounds that sounds interesting at the very

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Speaker 2: least and different. So that is Megalopolis that's showing in cinemas.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Now to the film, whose title has been irritating me

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Speaker 2: for days now, starring Bad Brad and George Clery. Have

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Speaker 2: I listened to Wolf's.

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Speaker 4: I was told and if I ever needed help to

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Speaker 4: call you?

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Speaker 5: What you can do?

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Speaker 1: What I do? We clearly have a situation here. The

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Speaker 1: only course of action is for you to work together

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Speaker 1: to clean up the mess.

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Speaker 2: No, bam, that's Wolves. Can you just start off by

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Speaker 2: explaining the title?

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Speaker 3: Well, they just didn't want to call it. Are you

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Speaker 3: going to explain this? You go explain.

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Speaker 5: The premise is that you've got these two lone wolves.

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Speaker 5: So you've got these two loan characters who are cleaners.

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Speaker 5: They called into fixed problems, but they you know, usually

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Speaker 5: involving dead bodies, and things or killing people, but they

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Speaker 5: always work alone, and they're very protective of their trade

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Speaker 5: craft and they're very protective of what they do. So

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Speaker 5: we have a wolf which is called into a situation,

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Speaker 5: and another wolf arrives, and the two of them are

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Speaker 5: played by George Cleaney and Bread Pitt, and the two

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Speaker 5: of them are forced to work together, but they're not

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Speaker 5: really together.

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Speaker 3: It's not really a plural.

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Speaker 2: Nonetheless, if you're putting it, yes.

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Speaker 5: I know, I mean it's it's I totally understand where

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Speaker 5: you're coming from, because we don't use w O L

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Speaker 5: F S as the plural.

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Speaker 3: We use the be, so it is very confusing. But

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Speaker 3: I'd move on from that, Jack, I just let that go.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I just think I'm you know, I remember how

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Speaker 2: I used to roll my eyes when playing scrabble with

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Speaker 2: my father, and I've just become that person, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've just become the nitpecker on grammar all of these things,

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Speaker 2: and I just you can say, move on. It's easy

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Speaker 2: to say move on, but I just know that for

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Speaker 2: some reason, it's like I've got it between my teeth.

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Speaker 3: Apostrophies as well.

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Speaker 5: Well. I placed apostrophees, yes, exactly, anyway, this is this

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Speaker 5: is an undermanding fun film.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so that's why I'm just saying it's not worth

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Speaker 3: really spending hu much time worrying about that.

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Speaker 5: It's you've got a couple of charismatic leads here. I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna be on this is playing on Apple Plus TV.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you.

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Speaker 5: The first twenty minutes about like the two of them

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Speaker 5: joined up and done a coffee ad together.

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Speaker 3: Right, it's it's George Clooney and bread.

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Speaker 5: As you expect that sort of dead pan, kind of

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Speaker 5: funny banter that the two of them do together.

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Speaker 3: The film is set.

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Speaker 5: Over one night, and it is actually beautifully shot. The

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Speaker 5: cinematog figure is absolutely fantastic. But it really took to

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Speaker 5: the forty night.

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Speaker 3: This is an actual comedy. It took to a forty.

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Speaker 5: Ninth minute when there is a fantastic stunt scene of

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Speaker 5: the car chase, which actually had me laughing out loud.

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Speaker 5: And that's when I kind of lightened up a little

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Speaker 5: bit on this film. When Okay, but you're expecting too much.

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Speaker 5: This is just supposed to be on the light side.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Look, the two of them obviously work together really well.

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Speaker 5: There's lots of, as I said, banter between the two

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Speaker 5: of them. They take the mickey out of each other.

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Speaker 5: The funny part is that they're actually you know, they

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Speaker 5: that they're individuals and they must work individually, but actually

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Speaker 5: they're the same person. They dress the same, they both

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Speaker 5: had the same back issue, they both work with the

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Speaker 3: They need glasses to read. So there's lots of sort of.

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Speaker 5: Gags there along those lines as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the pace ebbs.

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Speaker 5: And flows, the twists take a while to kick in,

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Speaker 5: felt like the film was just resting on the chemistry

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Speaker 5: between the two of them, right, you know, there's but

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Speaker 5: there are a few moments where you they actually put

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Speaker 5: some effort into the acting, but the rest of it

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Speaker 5: all comes pretty lightly, pretty easily.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, So not fun, light breezing entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Yeah, okay, cool, that's Wolfs That's on Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: Plus Megalopolis is in cinemas now. Thanks Franciska.

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