Speaker 1: Toss Popcorn is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi. I'm Sienna Jacob.
Speaker 2: And I'm Leanna Holston.
Speaker 1: And Welcome to Tossed Popcorn, the podcast where two idiots
Speaker 1: watched every film on the AFI's one hundred Greatest American
Speaker 1: Movies of All Time, the very slightly less Racist tenth
Speaker 1: Anniversary edition, and are now watching films directed by women.
Speaker 2: This podcast is a safe club for people who don't
Speaker 2: know anything about movies. Today we're watching Sola.
Speaker 1: I'm So Dumb?
Speaker 2: Like why Ain't so dumb? A movie based off a
Speaker 2: Twitter thread.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Warning there will be spoilers about this ooh old recent
Speaker 2: very recent film sterres full.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I guess we should hate content. Warning that we will
Speaker 2: be discussing sex trafficking and violence, sex violence and human
Speaker 2: suffering overall. Mm hmm. Yeah, I Sianna, had you did you?
Speaker 2: What did you know about this movie going into it?
Speaker 1: Actually, let's do our predictions because I think I talked
Speaker 1: about and then and then I'll tell you more. Okay,
Speaker 1: can we just get mine over with because I actually
Speaker 1: made it really long?
Speaker 2: Oh you sure did?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: I see that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so sorry?
Speaker 2: Hi Leanna, Hi, Hi Leanna.
Speaker 1: I'm about to watch Zola. I gotta admit I'm a
Speaker 1: bit nervous. We discussed this off Mic. I believe it
Speaker 1: was off Mic.
Speaker 2: It was that we.
Speaker 1: Both read the Twitter thread it was based on. When
Speaker 1: I read it, I thought the Twitter thread was horribly disturbing.
Speaker 1: You said it was funny. Yeah, I'm wondering if I
Speaker 1: read it in a different way. I can't remember it
Speaker 1: that well.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I remember some parts, but it's been a long time.
Speaker 1: But I'm hoping in movie form that they make it
Speaker 1: more lighthearted than what I recall. So I look forward
Speaker 1: to a crazy movie about I believe a woman meets
Speaker 1: another gal who's like, I can get you some quick cash,
Speaker 1: and then it ends up being a crazy, crazy journey.
Speaker 1: And this person who says she can make her some
Speaker 1: cash has like a lot, a lot going on, a
Speaker 1: lot going gosh, this is long. Okay, Well, I love you, goodbye.
Speaker 1: I will say I remember what was funny about it
Speaker 1: because the Zola, the writer is very funny about how
Speaker 1: she describes everything. Yeah, as you were going through, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, right, this is whilrious.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I think I'd like to retract my
Speaker 2: statement that the Twitter thread was funny, it's both those
Speaker 2: because you're having seen the film, I think it's got both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she really described a crazy situation. I think that's
Speaker 1: why it got so much buzz is because she was like, holy.
Speaker 2: Shit, yeah and then every perfect it's true. Well, and Sienna,
Speaker 2: here is my prediction for the film, Sola, Hi, Sienna Leanna.
Speaker 2: I'm about to watch Sola.
Speaker 4: I have not seen the movie, but I have read
Speaker 4: the Twitter thread, so I anticipate ooh me, oh my,
Speaker 4: a tale full of twists and also turns.
Speaker 2: Honestly, my main hope is not to see any human suffering.
Speaker 1: Oh god.
Speaker 2: I hope it's a wild ride and fun and there's
Speaker 2: a lot of glitter not you buy.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is I think they actually cut
Speaker 1: out some of the some of the worst of it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I guess I might. My brain must have
Speaker 2: blocked that out.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. I Uh. There were some things that
Speaker 1: were like really graphic that they made that they like
Speaker 1: decided to put into like a more subtle movie form. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and for that, I am great.
Speaker 2: Dang dang. But they kept in a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: They kept in some stuff that really disturbed me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, uh, before that, Hey girl, Hey girl girl,
Speaker 3: it is a heat wave in London.
Speaker 2: Woo, and we are not well.
Speaker 1: No, I hate the heat.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. It's not for me, and it's
Speaker 2: so so insane that it's only going to be this
Speaker 2: forever and worse until the earth blows up. So, but
Speaker 2: I just came from something called the Taste of London.
Speaker 1: Do you like if you've ever been to.
Speaker 2: Taste of Washington, Taste of Seattle? I have that.
Speaker 1: Bin, but I've been to things similar to it. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like a bunch of restaurants have yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so fun. Okay, tell me about it, all of the
Speaker 1: best things.
Speaker 2: I got a ticket for free through work. Thank you work. Oh,
Speaker 2: because the actual guy who works in actual marketing couldn't
Speaker 2: actually go, and I'm the personality higher so they were like,
Speaker 2: well send her, I guess yeah. So I went with
Speaker 2: the marketing Gerlina, and it was so fun. We both
Speaker 2: had a hard out that we almost adhered to, and
Speaker 2: so we had to just speed through the festival and
Speaker 2: get every free sample we could along the way. So
Speaker 2: my body right now is like a little nibble of
Speaker 2: guacamole and three chips and one free taco and some
Speaker 2: free tater tots, and then several several little cups with
Speaker 2: a few SIPs of wine in it. So I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say I'm buzzed, but I would say something has occurred, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that coupled with the heat, I was like, I
Speaker 2: felt like I was blackout when I was texting you
Speaker 2: that I was almost ready to start recording.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the heat'll do crazy things to you.
Speaker 2: Nothing, I feel loopy. I also am understanding. I've been
Speaker 2: watching Love Island UK. The new season started last week,
Speaker 2: and it's been a little bit sexless so far. Not entirely,
Speaker 2: but a little bit. And it's because of climate change.
Speaker 2: It's too hot those in that bedroom for anybody to
Speaker 2: want to do anything. And I get it.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, it's coming for us all, It's coming for everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, horny capitalists, beware, you're not gonna wanna with
Speaker 2: climate change. So maybe that'll make you do something about it.
Speaker 1: Dang. Anyway, Hey girl, hey girl, my parents were just
Speaker 1: in town.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. Did you watch this
Speaker 2: with them? No? No, surely not, Okay, this I chose.
Speaker 1: Not to watch with them. You know. I'm having sort
Speaker 1: of the opposite experience. Yesterday, I finally started watching the
Speaker 1: show Overcompensating because everybody wants.
Speaker 2: Me to watch yep, watched it this past weekend. Really, yes,
Speaker 2: we can discuss we could do an episode on over
Speaker 2: so I could do a monthly toss on it.
Speaker 1: I've been really enjoying it, but it is very sex full.
Speaker 1: I feel like, or they're just talking, they like say,
Speaker 1: they say sex.
Speaker 2: Words, borderline sex acts, very.
Speaker 1: Very sexual language all the time, which it's like really funny.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like, after watching this and then Zola,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, my brain is just full of penises.
Speaker 2: Yes, I understand, and I don't want it to be
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: It just it's just I'm sorry everybody, but this is
Speaker 1: this is the content that we've been consuming. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the reason I was watching this is because people have
Speaker 1: been a few of my friends have wanted me to
Speaker 1: watch it. I'm usually like busy in the evenings, and
Speaker 1: I uh, I had a doctor's appointment at ten forty five,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, I have things to do today, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to start them after this this virtual doctor's appointment.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna give myself a chill morning where
Speaker 1: I like watch a couple episodes of this thing, which
Speaker 1: was a delight. But then I told you I had
Speaker 1: a very awkward, embarrassing, just personally in my own soul
Speaker 1: kind of mourning that can only happen in the virtual
Speaker 1: age where.
Speaker 2: I was like the telehealth era, the telehealth era.
Speaker 1: So it's it's ten forty five. I go great, I
Speaker 1: get online. The way that I get my meds is
Speaker 1: through a straight service that like, is this doctor thing
Speaker 1: that I had with my old insurance and then my
Speaker 1: current insurance has transferred over. Okay, but I'm always waiting
Speaker 1: for it to break. I'm like, there's no way this
Speaker 1: is working. Yeah, it has worked, and I just have
Speaker 1: to call my psychiatrist like every three months tell her
Speaker 1: the mens are still working, and she just sends me
Speaker 1: a new thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the thing about the site is I can't email
Speaker 1: her directly. I have to make an appointment and show up,
Speaker 1: like I can't contact her directly. It's weird. So I
Speaker 1: get there, I cannot hear her. She is like moving
Speaker 1: her mouth and I'm like, oh sorry, I can't hear
Speaker 1: one second. And then you do the thing you do
Speaker 1: the little dance where you cleick around and You're like,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not an it spellist. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen on here. I know a bit about
Speaker 1: sound because of us, so I can I know which
Speaker 1: parts of the system preferences to go to.
Speaker 2: I know what icon means sound exactly.
Speaker 1: As a sound professional, and icon means volume.
Speaker 2: And did you know when I was looking at flats
Speaker 2: in London, you have to like list your job title,
Speaker 2: and I said audio engineer.
Speaker 1: Love, but you are you sure?
Speaker 2: Sure? Okay? So you're clicking around?
Speaker 1: I just I just I was feeling. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: like cosmically humiliated as I click around and just go.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like we both know that I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. There's no if you turn on
Speaker 1: you've already clicked all your sound on and you've turned
Speaker 1: on a video call and there's no sound. What are
Speaker 1: you to do? It's terrifying. So I tried hanging up
Speaker 1: and calling back, and then I was like, maybe if
Speaker 1: I moved to Chrome because by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's sun setting Safari or something, but a
Speaker 1: lot of websites are no longer working with safaris.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So I'm like, maybe go to Kari
Speaker 2: is over.
Speaker 1: You got it here.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: I tested things out so much, kept trying to click
Speaker 1: off and like refresh and stuff that finally my window
Speaker 1: to gain my appointment just closed. It was like six
Speaker 1: minutes or something, and I couldn't she was gone. There's
Speaker 1: no longer way for me to contact her either. I
Speaker 1: couldn't like message her and be like sorry, can we research?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So we just had to schedule another appointment for next
Speaker 1: week and I have to cross my hell. I have
Speaker 1: enough meds until then, only because I forgot a few
Speaker 1: times to take them.
Speaker 2: Thank god. Wait, anyway, is Safari your default browser?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 2: Oh girl? I know.
Speaker 1: You know why that is is because I used Chrome
Speaker 1: in college and it would just suck the energy right
Speaker 1: out my computer.
Speaker 2: What I found Chrome taby how many tabs?
Speaker 1: Millions?
Speaker 2: Millions? I mean as many tabs as there were hippos
Speaker 2: in ancient Egypt.
Speaker 1: I mean like truly as many as possible.
Speaker 2: That's just but are you doing that with Safari as well?
Speaker 2: And it's okay? Yeah, wow, I from one Safari.
Speaker 1: I That's what I noticed at least in college. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to make it out. Yeah, it's no good.
Speaker 1: It's no good.
Speaker 2: It issues are so stupid. Today during our company all hands,
Speaker 2: I was giving my stupid presentation about this stupid thing
Speaker 2: on my stupid slide, and I lifted up my laptop
Speaker 2: to show everybody something. And then people on the call
Speaker 2: were like, oh, we can't hear you. Your mic is
Speaker 2: being weird, and I was just like okay, and I
Speaker 2: kept going, like, what am I supposed to do? It's
Speaker 2: a new laptop. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did they get you a work laptop or is it yours?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a work laptop. Awesome. I know. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: pretty sick.
Speaker 1: Someday I wonder if i'll know the glory that is
Speaker 1: a work laptop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're this one is not cursed anymore. My old
Speaker 2: one was very cursed. It was a twenty nineteen behemoth
Speaker 2: of a MacBook Pro that clearly had ghosts, like clearly
Speaker 2: too many people had had it had seemed too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah totally.
Speaker 2: But this one's fresh and new, fresh, fresh, and speaking
Speaker 2: of keeping things fresh and clean, as opposed to maybe
Speaker 2: maybe your colleague who is messier, uh huh, Sienna, could
Speaker 2: you please give us a synopsis of the film Sola.
Speaker 1: Yes, Sola Sola, a waitress and sometimes dancer, is convinced
Speaker 1: by a fun, airheady girlipop named Stephanie to go on
Speaker 1: a trip to make some money stripping in Miami. However,
Speaker 1: the situation quickly becomes much sketchier than that, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty much a sloppily executed sex trafficking scheme. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Sola spends the whole time stressed and appalled.
Speaker 2: Hm the end, honestly, yeah, it's like forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Everybody survives except for one person who except for one guy,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't the team.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I think so it didn't. Things weren't
Speaker 2: looking good for him for sure. Yeah, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, things get insane.
Speaker 1: It's a story of ending up in a situation where
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, crap, I'm with the wrong people. Ooh,
Speaker 1: but Sola is such a mood.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: I loved I loved her.
Speaker 1: I loved her.
Speaker 2: It really means she did and said I was like, yep,
Speaker 2: it's not the right thing. That is the right thing
Speaker 2: to do or say?
Speaker 1: Well, the hona should we talk about our phone notes
Speaker 1: about the movie Sola.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure how I felt about this film.
Speaker 1: This is so interesting because I came into it assuming
Speaker 1: it was going to be so disturbing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was at the opposite I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: a romp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I ended up having actually quite a
Speaker 1: fun time because it was so much funnier than I
Speaker 1: was expecting. I was bracing myself for sort of like
Speaker 1: a gratuitous horror movie, yeah type of thing, and it
Speaker 1: was really like, I mean, definitely the subject matter is upsetting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Stephanie's like a sex worker basically, but she's not
Speaker 1: in a good situation. Her like her manager pimp guy, yeah,
Speaker 1: is not good, gives her no money, Like, she's just
Speaker 1: really it's just not a good situation. I was expecting
Speaker 1: all of that, and so then having Zola be in
Speaker 1: the background like oh funny.
Speaker 2: I for like, for my experience of the film was
Speaker 2: I was going tea he until I wasn't yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I wasn't in it.
Speaker 1: It's it's dark stuff, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There was a lot of human suffering, yeah, which
Speaker 2: I'd explicitly stated I was hoping wouldn't happen. Yeah, do
Speaker 2: you need to get away? From your weekend get away.
Speaker 2: You've got three minutes to dissociate. We'll be right back, Okay.
Speaker 1: Letter you've said, is that Coleman Domingo.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my god, I love him me too. I
Speaker 2: really love him. I love him so much, honestly, pretty much.
Speaker 2: Whatever he's in, he eyes, anything he's in.
Speaker 1: This is how again. I was feeling very stressed about
Speaker 1: this movie. Yeah m hmuse thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: so and when I saw that he was playing X,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this is gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: Truly, this is what made the casting. The casting is
Speaker 2: so smart, because I noted later unfortunately, because this is
Speaker 2: Coleman Domingo. I trust him implicitly. But it's like you
Speaker 2: have to cast somebody that everybody who is so beloved
Speaker 2: in order to make this at all watchable is so
Speaker 2: because otherwise it would just be a horrific interactions with
Speaker 2: this terrifying man. But then it's Coleman Domingo.
Speaker 1: I know he really. It made me feel so much safer.
Speaker 2: It really totally like, ohally.
Speaker 1: We're just telling a story and it's time and everyone's okay.
Speaker 2: It's okay. Because he is an actor and he is
Speaker 2: gay remember, he is gay, and a gay man has
Speaker 2: never treated women poorly. Not once in history does that happen.
Speaker 1: Leon said, O g the old Instagram UI.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, because it takes place in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: It's so wild seeing an old app user interface, yeah,
Speaker 2: and realizing, oh my god, that is what it used
Speaker 2: to look like and it doesn't anymore. That Oh my god,
Speaker 2: it's true, Sianna, you've noted. I literally cannot imagine being
Speaker 2: this strong and graceful.
Speaker 1: Every time. We have seen a couple of movies now,
Speaker 1: maybe just the other one where there are dancers, yeah,
Speaker 1: pole dancing. I'm trying to imagine. If there was another
Speaker 1: one where we saw, they probably were man movies and
Speaker 1: were disgusting, but.
Speaker 2: I think these are the two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pole dancing is like so amazing. I m these
Speaker 1: movies have really made me go, oh, I get it.
Speaker 2: I completely put it.
Speaker 1: I completely get what's like. So you can't take your
Speaker 1: eyes off.
Speaker 2: Of see it's mesmerizing it is.
Speaker 1: She was so yeah, graceful and strong. It just looks
Speaker 1: so easy. I guess that's what's so mesmerizing about pole
Speaker 1: dancing is when people are really talented and they make
Speaker 1: it look so easy, even though you know it takes
Speaker 1: such intense strength.
Speaker 2: Effortless and also to make something really athletic also be sexy. Yes,
Speaker 2: is not a given.
Speaker 1: It is not a given at all.
Speaker 2: I knw that Taylor page at the end after the
Speaker 2: movie and learned that she is an actor and also
Speaker 2: professional dancer, and I said, oh, thank.
Speaker 1: God, Oh thank god, Oh thank thank god.
Speaker 2: Honestly thank god, because if this was just an actor
Speaker 2: who'd like picked up pole dancing along the way, I
Speaker 2: don't know that stresses me out, but that this is
Speaker 2: also her vocation, like dancing was a profession that she
Speaker 2: has done. Thank god. Yeah, because she was so good
Speaker 2: at it. And her body also was the best I've
Speaker 2: ever seen, the best body I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I wrote something down later where I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry to do this, but like her butt is.
Speaker 2: So it's exactly what it is supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And later one of the character is the guy who
Speaker 1: ends up robbing them or trying to Yeah.
Speaker 2: A stresses her fat ass.
Speaker 1: He literally said something like that is a special ass
Speaker 1: like it, and I was like, I've actually really thank you.
Speaker 2: For saying that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like that is special. She's got something.
Speaker 2: About women directing films is like, it's not it does.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like objectification. It feels like appreciation.
Speaker 2: It really does and respect.
Speaker 1: Okay, Leanna, you said, lmao, this dehydrated bitch?
Speaker 4: Is this?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? The scene where they show and this
Speaker 2: again is like only a woman is allowed to direct
Speaker 2: this a scene where the camera is over two toilet
Speaker 2: stalls and it shows how each of the women are peeing.
Speaker 2: I know, which also was so Joe, don't tell which
Speaker 2: I've been taught is what you're supposed to do in movies.
Speaker 2: So apparently that's good. Where Zola is squatting over the
Speaker 2: toilets because she wheres Stephanie's fully sat on it, and
Speaker 2: Zola's pe is such a light color of yellow, whereas
Speaker 2: Stephanie is such a dehydrated bitch. And I was like,
Speaker 2: what an evocative way to portray two different characters' personalities.
Speaker 1: It is so true, and like it's foreshadowing that one
Speaker 1: of them that Zola cares more about, that she's more careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, if.
Speaker 1: She could have just seen, if she could have just
Speaker 1: seen Stephanie pissing does not take care of herself. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this movie was not afraid to be gross in that way.
Speaker 1: They were like, you were not going to be aroused
Speaker 1: by this film. Yeah, that is something that.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it a lot up top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Leanna, you've said this is such an accurate portrayal
Speaker 1: of every white boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Oh what did you think of Nicholas Brown in this film?
Speaker 1: So funny in this he's so so talented at speaking
Speaker 1: a little bit wrong. When he goes into the window,
Speaker 1: he's like yo yo yo.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I laughed so much. When he calls her and he's like,
Speaker 1: I love you if you want any food, like you're
Speaker 1: trying to get food, or like like I can wait
Speaker 1: for you and we can get food. And it goes
Speaker 1: message not recorded.
Speaker 2: Message not recorded.
Speaker 1: That made me laugh out loud. I really laughed at
Speaker 1: this movie a number of times. And I think the
Speaker 1: laughter comes from the fact that you feel so stressed.
Speaker 1: And it's true, but it's like breaking up the stress.
Speaker 2: I think it's needed, It's very needed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Leanna, you said pole dancing can only be directed
Speaker 1: by a woman. I completely agree.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, Leana, you said this is why I travel solo.
Speaker 2: No, you just never know. You never know if the
Speaker 2: friend you're traveling with is gonna accidentally loop you into
Speaker 2: a sex trafficking ring. Yeah, so travel solo. No, it's
Speaker 2: really more that thing of like you don't actually know
Speaker 2: how other people in your life live. You're not seeing
Speaker 2: them twenty four to seven in a way that you
Speaker 2: do when you travel together. Yes, I think it's good
Speaker 2: to keep a little bit of mystery. It's so true,
Speaker 2: like how you and I refuse to go on the
Speaker 2: same plane, and it's for the best. We're not gonna
Speaker 2: do that. We know we'd kill each other we did.
Speaker 1: I want Zola's energy, oh more of my life because
Speaker 1: I think if I had been I was like, what
Speaker 1: twenty three or something, when I was in this guy's
Speaker 1: like drag racing car and it was very short, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a long amout, but I was just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this person lives life so much differently than me.
Speaker 1: I do not feel safe. But if I was Sola,
Speaker 1: I would have been like, no, absolutely not stop right now.
Speaker 2: She has what I envy, which is knowing immediately how
Speaker 2: you feel about this thing, yes, and being able to
Speaker 2: voice that right away.
Speaker 1: Exactly because I was going I'm not sure if I
Speaker 1: feel slaved. I would feel most comfortable if this was
Speaker 1: just fine with me. I'm just gonna be silent and
Speaker 1: then go, okay, I'm just gonna slowly ghost you now.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, she she was able to go like, no,
Speaker 1: uh uh huh uh.
Speaker 2: No, I don't like this. I don't like you. You're
Speaker 2: not handling this in a way that I respect.
Speaker 1: I'm not that girl. I know immediately that you are
Speaker 1: trying to put me in a situation where I'm not safe.
Speaker 1: I can tell you're not looking out for me, and
Speaker 1: for that reason, I am mad at you. Like you
Speaker 1: do your thing, but you cannot pull me into trafficking situation.
Speaker 2: When Stephanie was like, do you like how I look?
Speaker 2: And she goes no, oh my god, no.
Speaker 3: No, she.
Speaker 2: Because she determined that these are not people she wants
Speaker 2: to be associated with, so it no longer was a
Speaker 2: priority to like earn their respect or please them in
Speaker 2: any way, because you don't have to do that with
Speaker 2: people who are terrible to you. Yeah, in fact, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, Leanna, I have to read this
Speaker 1: note of yours. You've said, being a man is so random.
Speaker 1: You see so much of the night.
Speaker 2: Doesn't that make you think that is there's so many
Speaker 2: hours of the twenty four hour cycle that people who
Speaker 2: are not men do not see because it would not
Speaker 2: be safe for us to just be wandering around. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but a man can just go wander at twelve thirty
Speaker 2: in the morning outside of a motel and it's like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 2: now do I want to do that? No? I love
Speaker 2: being asleep. I love being asleep in my bed during
Speaker 2: those hours. But you're the but it is random.
Speaker 1: You're the one who gets to go there.
Speaker 2: You could just like be kind of wherever.
Speaker 1: Nobody would care.
Speaker 2: It's so strange. Yeah, it's very inconceivable.
Speaker 1: Leanna, you wrote I fuck with Jesus. You would you
Speaker 1: say you fuck with Jesus? Yeah? I would. Okay, Yeah
Speaker 1: that was so funny.
Speaker 2: I watch fun They do like a retelling of a
Speaker 2: me too from a different character's perspective and faster. That
Speaker 2: was fun and so funny.
Speaker 1: She was like, she was like, oh, like, uh, your
Speaker 1: your your your friend is like a promoter at a club,
Speaker 1: like I'll come dance, and I'm like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what that is. Like it works. Also, Zola has
Speaker 1: like literal dirt in her hair or like twigs in
Speaker 1: her hair.
Speaker 2: She comes out wearing garbage bags. She made one dollar.
Speaker 1: She made one dollar, so mean.
Speaker 2: Everybody made eighteen hundred.
Speaker 1: Everybody really liked me, and she made one dollar, So
Speaker 1: I guess she's jealous of me.
Speaker 2: That's my self esteem is in a place where I'm like,
Speaker 2: I bet I would be the one making one Like
Speaker 2: if it was me and somebody else has the options,
Speaker 2: I'd be the one who got one dollar.
Speaker 1: How would anybody even at that point? How did you
Speaker 1: make any money? If you're only making one dollar? It's
Speaker 1: such a funny amount.
Speaker 2: One dollar is the meanest amount. The other day, I
Speaker 2: described my body type as a mid sized sedan.
Speaker 1: That is so funny.
Speaker 2: I think it's so funny.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I'm sort of mid size.
Speaker 2: Well, I would describe myself as a mid sized sedan.
Speaker 2: If you rented me from like a Hurtz, i'd be
Speaker 2: in the mid size sedan sections so funny, or an
Speaker 2: Alamo or National. You know we're a rental car company
Speaker 2: because I'm shaped like a waffle? What's that from? I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, I'm just saying, oh wow, did you just
Speaker 2: come up with that?
Speaker 1: Right? Now yes, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really funny.
Speaker 1: You can take it.
Speaker 2: I thought that was like a line that Donkey said
Speaker 2: in Shrek or something. No, Wow, petit Dejane because I'm
Speaker 2: shaped like a waffle there you go. Wow. I No,
Speaker 2: petit is no part of me. I'm a mid sized
Speaker 2: I'm like a Honda Civic Siana. Your final note is
Speaker 2: Unfortunately the rest of my notes are pretty much just
Speaker 2: me exclaiming things and saying, lol, I really do and
Speaker 2: it's true. Yeah they are.
Speaker 1: I forget what I'm commenting after that, but things really
Speaker 1: were making me laugh. Uh, except for when they were
Speaker 1: discussing in a horrible hole.
Speaker 2: I didn't like that.
Speaker 1: I really when I was upset in this movie, I
Speaker 1: was really screaming and I was saying, like you said,
Speaker 1: I was going, no, no, yeah, yes, Leanna you've said,
Speaker 1: OMG is such a portrayal of dissociation so real.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. When her the screen becomes just kind
Speaker 2: of like a Microsoft computer screensaver and their voices are
Speaker 2: muted in the background. Wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah this movie, I really, I really really think I
Speaker 1: like the way they portrayed everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is one of these times where watching a movie.
Speaker 1: I wyes, Oh, this being in movie form makes sense
Speaker 1: to me. They're doing things with the medium of a
Speaker 1: movie that they couldn't do with another medium.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Leanna, Hello, I had the same question, and I love
Speaker 1: how you asked it, and love and light to all
Speaker 1: and welcome to the community.
Speaker 2: You said, I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: Who is this huge woman?
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a huge woman.
Speaker 1: He is uh And I remembered from I forgot that
Speaker 1: in the in the Twitter thread that his like girlfriend
Speaker 1: or wife shows up at some point. I loved her.
Speaker 1: She is this enormous woman who comes in and is like,
Speaker 1: I would kill for you, and she would, I know.
Speaker 1: And then she's like, I'm making a smoothe do you
Speaker 1: want bacon? And then when Nicholas Braun is like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kill myself.
Speaker 2: She goes do it, do it? That was really funny,
Speaker 2: this enormous woman. She just rocks up and you're like, hello, hell,
Speaker 2: and then she's just there yeah. Yeah. And then to
Speaker 2: that enormous woman.
Speaker 1: Leonna, your final note is that's the end.
Speaker 2: I didn't like that. I wanted to make sure that
Speaker 2: she got home safe.
Speaker 1: I would have loved that too, because I think this
Speaker 1: was like the end of the Twitter thread. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to see her get home, get cozy.
Speaker 2: You're so stressed the whole time. It's like I just
Speaker 2: want to make I just want this woman to get
Speaker 2: home and like shower and change.
Speaker 1: I would love to see her like in her bed, yeah,
Speaker 1: eating something.
Speaker 2: Just safe, Yeah, safe and sound, which I guess it's
Speaker 2: implied because like because she co wrote a film. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's credited with making the movie, which is so yeah,
Speaker 2: she's okay. But I didn't like that as the like
Speaker 2: wrapping up of the story.
Speaker 1: I felt similar it was you're so on edge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't any de new mole.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's a thing with like child children's education or like, uh,
Speaker 1: some of my friends teach, they're like kindergarten through second grade,
Speaker 1: and there's a thing with storytelling to children where like
Speaker 1: you use a lot of language about like characters getting
Speaker 1: cozy or comfy or like wrapping themselves up in blankets
Speaker 1: and like snuggling in because like there's something about that
Speaker 1: that age they really respond to, like characters feeling really safe.
Speaker 1: And I was like, this has now put me in
Speaker 1: a state of such distress. And childlike need that I
Speaker 1: also want to see. I want to see a little
Speaker 1: bear snuggle up into.
Speaker 2: It it's bed for a rest. Oh yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I wanted. I wanted to get to just snuggle up.
Speaker 1: A frappuccino and like watch something.
Speaker 2: I needed her to have a shower, maybe because I
Speaker 2: want myself to have a shower. So hot.
Speaker 1: Did a stupid girl at a restaurant just to ask
Speaker 1: you to go on a work trip with her? I'm
Speaker 1: going to advise against it. Wait right there, we'll be
Speaker 1: back in three minutes. Don't go.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Sienna. I'll move on to badges and trages.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: This is our segment, Badges and Tradges, where we give
Speaker 2: badges for.
Speaker 1: But that are special, yes, and trag is for trafficking
Speaker 1: comma human.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's literally what they did to her.
Speaker 1: My first badge is for all the performances. Early on,
Speaker 1: I just felt so held by the fact that this
Speaker 1: was so well cast. Again Coleman do Bingo. H Taylor
Speaker 1: Page is so well cast in this. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember who plays Stephanie, but she was very funny.
Speaker 2: Oh Riley Keo, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley what mm hmm.
Speaker 1: What.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you take all the time you need with that.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. What Anyway, I thought it was very well cast,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, Okay, at least we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes A badge for an incredible smize from Taylor. The
Speaker 2: phrase serving face has never been more applicable in a
Speaker 2: film than to Taylor Page in Zola, she is serving face.
Speaker 2: There were the whole time, there were a number.
Speaker 1: Of scenes where the only thing the scene was trying
Speaker 1: to tell you was that something crazy or gross was
Speaker 1: gonna was happening. And then they kind of pan over
Speaker 1: or like change the focus so you can see Taylor
Speaker 1: Page's face and she's just like ah mm hmmm, which
Speaker 1: is such an excellent storytelling badge for Oh the face
Speaker 1: she makes after that guy says you look like Whoopy Goldberg.
Speaker 1: That really made me laugh.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm also just gonna say, now, just exactly as you said,
Speaker 1: My next badge after that is Zola's faces are insane.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love her. A badge for Coleman Domingo's face
Speaker 2: while Stephanie and her wife boyfriend or making out in
Speaker 2: the motel. It makes a very like disgusted faith. It's
Speaker 2: very funny.
Speaker 1: Badge for revising some of the more disturbing scenes. There
Speaker 1: was at least one thing that I remember from the
Speaker 1: Twitter thread that like truly kept me up at night.
Speaker 1: It was so disturbing to me. And they replaced it
Speaker 1: with just like a much gentler sort of like verbal
Speaker 1: representation of sort of the same thing, like the same
Speaker 1: power trip that you're supposed to be that happens is
Speaker 1: displayed in a much gentler way that I think was
Speaker 1: better for the movie and just made me feel good
Speaker 1: that this movie wasn't trying to be completely gratuitous, because
Speaker 1: they could have done even more with Like if they
Speaker 1: wanted to just be gratuitous and show things that we
Speaker 1: couldn't normally see because it's based on real life, yeah
Speaker 1: they would have shown different stuff.
Speaker 2: But they were, Yeah, you know, there's a Quentin Tarantino
Speaker 2: telling of this story that like, yes, puts people into
Speaker 2: therapy totally.
Speaker 1: And I'm really glad they really were more thoughtful about
Speaker 1: what they wanted to show and I appreciated it so much.
Speaker 2: A badge for this prayer that that woman delivers the
Speaker 2: dancers praying in a circle at the club in Florida
Speaker 2: before they dance. Oh my god, that was that was funny.
Speaker 1: She was so good. That was so funny. He's got
Speaker 1: really made me laugh. That's when she was like having
Speaker 1: like a conniption. Oh yes, yep, yeah, Jesus was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Badge for when Coleman Domingo's like that guy could come
Speaker 1: back with a with a group of guys and and
Speaker 1: kill us all, blow all our heads off, and Zola
Speaker 1: goes what the way she said what? And that ended
Speaker 1: up being the situation, But like the way that she's
Speaker 1: just like, I'm sorry, what this life that you guys
Speaker 1: are implying can happens so far from my reality?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I am in such shock, and I find out to
Speaker 1: be a very relatable kind of feeling, even this year,
Speaker 1: specifically on a world.
Speaker 2: Scah Yeah yeah what Yeah. A badge for Zola says
Speaker 2: everything I wish I could to people who she does
Speaker 2: not respect or want to be affiliated.
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I want to be just like her. Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be just like her. I want to
Speaker 1: be just like her socially. My last one was badge
Speaker 1: for the at Stephanie thing surprised me so much and
Speaker 1: was so funny.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Badge for Zola is a business woman, the
Speaker 2: way that she helps Stephanie out and she's like, well, no,
Speaker 2: you can be making so much more money. Let's do
Speaker 2: this the right way and in a way that actually
Speaker 2: makes sense and isn't set up by this stupid man
Speaker 2: who doesn't know what's going on. That was crazy when
Speaker 2: he's like, you think you can do your job, my job,
Speaker 2: better than me, and she's like yes in her head, yes,
Speaker 2: oh my god. My final badge is a badge for
Speaker 2: when Nicholas Brawn gets to the motel and sees that
Speaker 2: the guy he was hanging out with and doing magic
Speaker 2: tricks with is the one like kidnapping Stephanie and threatening
Speaker 2: all of them, and he goes.
Speaker 1: This isn't you, This isn't you. Wait.
Speaker 2: Before that, he's like, I thought we were homies. He's
Speaker 2: so funny.
Speaker 1: He is really really really talented portraying everybody how we
Speaker 1: all feel on our most vulnerable, our most vulnerable level
Speaker 1: of like yeah I trusted you, wait from how yeah
Speaker 1: I know of you? This isn't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, trages trag is my first tratege is I don't
Speaker 1: even remember which part that was. There's just some things
Speaker 1: that are so probably the penises. I was eating a
Speaker 1: pickle when I saw their pee in the toilet, and
Speaker 1: I did have to look. That was a mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, choose to eat during these films.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. The the later the
Speaker 1: it'll give all my ears right now. You for the
Speaker 1: scene where uh he's like licking her h huh so yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you for every time every time Coleman Domingo
Speaker 1: is using the bathroom and he goes.
Speaker 2: Why does he grunt so much? What is going on?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I really think that was like an amazing directorial choice,
Speaker 1: an amazing direction to give is like you're gross, Like
Speaker 1: we want to just sort of be kind of offended
Speaker 1: and grossed out by you. It's just sort of like like, oh,
Speaker 1: so disgusting for some reason, and it feels so human,
Speaker 1: like the things that were gross were so viscerally human.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: My first trage is why is the video style grainy?
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Cameras are good now? Uh yeah, I get
Speaker 2: that it's a choice, but cameras are good now. Actually
Speaker 2: it felt very Indie. And then I couldn't tell if
Speaker 2: that was stylistic or just like the budget they were
Speaker 2: working with or what. Yeah, but cameras are good now
Speaker 2: use good ones.
Speaker 1: Uh. My other and I guess sort of final trage
Speaker 1: because I just explained everything gross from the movie. My
Speaker 1: other trage is for just that the story is disturbing.
Speaker 1: It makes me sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say it. I'm a little tired of this
Speaker 2: harp score harp. I was like, you know what, stop,
Speaker 2: I actually don't like this.
Speaker 1: I thought you'd like it because it's music. It is music,
Speaker 1: but when music happens in movies, usually say something about it.
Speaker 2: Let's I usually do, and I am again, but this
Speaker 2: time it's negative. A trage for human suffering. There was
Speaker 2: human suffering was depicted at multiple times, and I said, no.
Speaker 1: I didn't like seeing the men be disgusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, my next trage is a trage for men
Speaker 2: are so scary. The scene where it's multiple men and they.
Speaker 1: Go we're savages. They're like, we're not proper.
Speaker 2: I didn't like that. I didn't like any.
Speaker 1: Think.
Speaker 2: And then of my final trage is the scene where
Speaker 2: she like basically gets she gets assaulted. Was pretty triggering.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: So that's where I was like, up until that point,
Speaker 2: I had been a little bit like tee, and then
Speaker 2: I was no longer and then I was very.
Speaker 1: Quiet, really really really shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Really, I think it's because, like the sex acts
Speaker 2: that happened before that in the film are all consensual. Yes,
Speaker 2: uh huh, Like Zola didn't consent to being brought into
Speaker 2: this business situation, so she doesn't, but the sex that
Speaker 2: the actual people are having is consensual up until that point.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it becomes.
Speaker 1: Stephanie is an idiot, but she like this is and
Speaker 1: disturbing consenting and deciding to do and like is she's
Speaker 1: content with her situation at least?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I guess I just I really didn't appreciate
Speaker 2: seeing that actually like fully portrayed on screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's where I actually was, like, I disagree
Speaker 2: with that happening on camera. Yeah, because the of it.
Speaker 2: It feels like the way this was filmed was for
Speaker 2: the girlies. Yes, uh, like everybody not necessarily as being
Speaker 2: taken care of. But it's like, yeah, see what we mean.
Speaker 2: I don't know that part was just steps. It just
Speaker 2: was really triggering. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: You know, you know trag. Okay, let's move on to
Speaker 2: our segment. How to pretend you've seen this film. This
Speaker 2: is for you are on a road trip. You are
Speaker 2: carpooling on a long road trip with a group that
Speaker 2: you don't know well, and uh, what was her boyfriend's name, Derek?
Speaker 1: Derek. Derek leans over back in the car. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's showing you a video. He's like, this is so funny.
Speaker 1: Look at this. Oh my god, she got so close
Speaker 1: to her face when he was saying that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was really exactly what you mm hmmm. He's exactly the
Speaker 1: type of exactly.
Speaker 2: That He's exactly it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at this video. It's so funny. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love Twitter. Twitter is so funny. Oh hey, I
Speaker 1: hear there's this new movie about Twitter, about Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't seen it, but I assume it's
Speaker 1: about like the really funny Twitter thread that was just
Speaker 1: funny and not disturbing because I'm not really a pare
Speaker 1: of women's pain. Yeah, and I'm gonna tell you everything
Speaker 1: that I've heard about it. H right now.
Speaker 2: And in order to block Derek, we're gonna give you
Speaker 2: a few sentences you can say to pretend you've seen
Speaker 2: the film. Zola Derek is monologuing at me about this
Speaker 2: Twitter thread and just keeps playing at full volume like
Speaker 2: fail or like Reality King's videos or whatever that channel
Speaker 2: is for videos. And all I say is word.
Speaker 1: Word, What the frick okay? Men are so embarrassing?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Derek, I have seen the movie Zola Okay
Speaker 1: James Franco around the times that the tweets were written.
Speaker 1: James Franco immediately bought the movie rights to bring the
Speaker 1: story to Hollywood. He was originally attached to direct, produce,
Speaker 1: and star in the film No, and he he ultimately
Speaker 1: took his producer credit off the film due to the
Speaker 1: sexual harassment charges he received. Did he receive them on
Speaker 1: the film? I am so glad whoever who is in
Speaker 1: charge of this, who was involved with this, went no,
Speaker 1: James Franco, you may not direct this and be in it.
Speaker 2: God, just a cacophony is still coming from Derek's side
Speaker 2: of the car, and I just turned to him and
Speaker 2: I say, my dude, I love what she called him.
Speaker 2: The part of minimalism is so with her. It's go girl,
Speaker 2: give us nothing in the way that it's women's rights. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she doesn't over explain herself. She just says, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing this. You have to stop. I don't like
Speaker 2: what you're doing. There's honestly a lot to be learned
Speaker 2: from this character.
Speaker 1: Yes, Derek, I have seen the film Zola. To prepare
Speaker 1: for the role, Taylor Page worked at a strip club
Speaker 1: on Sunset and Librea to find out what it's like.
Speaker 1: And she said she actually really needed the money, so
Speaker 1: it worked out really well. But it was helpful for
Speaker 1: her because she wanted to have a sense of agency
Speaker 1: before she left to do the movie and learn what
Speaker 1: it's actually like to feel like it's an eat or
Speaker 1: be eat situation.
Speaker 3: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: Derek continues his monologue at mile one hundred of the
Speaker 2: road trip, and I turned to him and I said, Derek,
Speaker 2: you have to stop talking to me about film.
Speaker 1: This isn't you.
Speaker 2: I thought we were homies.
Speaker 1: This isn't you. This, this isn't you. Yes, Derek, I
Speaker 1: have seen the film Zola. A lot of Riley Kyog's
Speaker 1: training was that she had to learn how to She
Speaker 1: had to get special training on how to play a
Speaker 1: white woman trying to yeah very offensively sound like a
Speaker 1: certain type of quote unquote black. As her co star,
Speaker 1: h Taylor Page put it. Keyok is basically in blackface
Speaker 1: for the whole movie with this black scent and Keok's
Speaker 1: portrayal of Stephanie is supposed to make the audience squirm,
Speaker 1: which it does. Movie makes you squirm, and she and
Speaker 1: the director had many conversations about cultural appropriation throughout the
Speaker 1: film since she had to act this way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that dialect was craze.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. She was crazy.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. The look, the little brief look that Taylor
Speaker 2: Page does when they're outside of the club where they
Speaker 2: first danced together at going to Stephanie's car and Stephanie
Speaker 2: is going off about like why are you hitting up
Speaker 2: my phone? Why are you blah blah blah, Why areh
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and she keeps saying sis, yeah, And
Speaker 2: at one point zola Is gives her this look that
Speaker 2: is so amazing. It's like a two second reaction and
Speaker 2: it's so perfect. She just kind of like gives her
Speaker 2: this look that's like, my god, I can't believe this
Speaker 2: person is this way yes, and then keeps going.
Speaker 1: She is such a good actress. I really want to
Speaker 1: watch her in more stuff. I hope she can. Being
Speaker 1: in lots of juicy Roles, so I get to see
Speaker 1: her for a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Final fun fact is that Riley Kyogan Taylor Page became
Speaker 1: really good friends during filming. Yay, that's sweet. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad James Franco had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: this in the end.
Speaker 2: Oh, I rebuke that. I rebuke him. Okay, Sianna, it's
Speaker 2: time for our segment should you watch this or in
Speaker 2: which we tell you, beloved listener, if we think you
Speaker 2: should watch this movie or if you should do something
Speaker 2: else with your uh you with your nighttime, with your
Speaker 2: forty eight hours, with your forty eight hours, I'll go.
Speaker 1: I would say that the best part of the movie
Speaker 1: are Taylor Page's reactions. If you feel like watching it,
Speaker 1: go for it. It's definitely a lot. I was nervous
Speaker 1: to watch it. I think it's pretty disturbing, the whole
Speaker 1: thread and everything. But we know, I'm a big old
Speaker 1: nerd and I get so distressed by I also get
Speaker 1: distressed by human suffering. And that's just a little something
Speaker 1: about Leanna and myself. Something you could watch instead if
Speaker 1: you want to have girlies being extremely funny and looking
Speaker 1: at each other when they're crazy, and it takes place
Speaker 1: in Florida, and the club scenes. You could watch rap shit,
Speaker 1: which is still a hobby that I love. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still a show that I love, but it's the same.
Speaker 1: It's like Florida. Yeah, so if you want to see
Speaker 1: Florida club life where people have more agency, but there's
Speaker 1: also definitely crazy parties that happen where people go like
Speaker 1: what the hell? Yeah, Leanna, what about yourself?
Speaker 2: I would say, you don't have to watch Zola. You
Speaker 2: could instead just read the Twitter thread. Oh it's a
Speaker 2: wild it's crazy. I would say, read the Twitter thread first,
Speaker 2: so you know what to expect.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: And if you're gonna watch Sola, just have a content
Speaker 2: warning that there are scenes of sexual violence and assault.
Speaker 2: Your trade.
Speaker 1: I'll say, I really didn't want to watch it.
Speaker 2: Really scene just scene, I think in terms of assault. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you want a white version of two girlies in
Speaker 2: Florida getting up to antics in probably the whitest possible way,
Speaker 2: you could watch Barb and Star go to Vista del
Speaker 2: mom My, gosh.
Speaker 1: Wait, we should completely watch that sometimes.
Speaker 2: I love that. I just watched it for the first
Speaker 2: time earlier this year. I'd never seen it before and obsessed.
Speaker 2: I love it so much. It's so us Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think rap Shit and Barb and Star Go to
Speaker 2: Vista del Mar are great alternative recommendations. Boy Seanna, what
Speaker 2: would you rate the film, Sola?
Speaker 1: I am going to rate the film Zola three point
Speaker 1: five old timey Instagram likes out of five. What I
Speaker 1: really liked was the choices they made to make certain
Speaker 1: parts of this less gratuitous. Yeah, I agree, like the
Speaker 1: climactic thing that they decided to do was really upsetting,
Speaker 1: but it clearly was carefully done, and I appreciated the
Speaker 1: direction and it really effectively. Again, if this film's trying
Speaker 1: to make you squirm, it makes you squirm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I thought the facial expressions were so funny. I
Speaker 1: thought the casting was really good. I think they did
Speaker 1: a really good job of making this telling the story.
Speaker 1: But the story itself is like one of the most
Speaker 1: disturbing things I've ever read, and I can't even remember.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go back and read it now,
Speaker 1: but at the time I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean, it's like not a it's not
Speaker 1: a feel good every time watch. But I think they
Speaker 1: did a really good job. So I commend it, Leanna,
Speaker 1: what about you?
Speaker 2: I would give Sola three nipple pasties out of five.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, imagine having five nipples. Crazy number, way
Speaker 2: too many. I thought Taylor Page's performance in it was amusing.
Speaker 2: She's amazing, like really iconic. Wow, she sores in this film.
Speaker 1: I loved.
Speaker 2: I thought the casting was great. I think, yeah, it
Speaker 2: just the assault scene was so hard to watch and
Speaker 2: so upsetting that it really knocked it down for me.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I just wanted it more of a
Speaker 2: Dane New Mold. I just wanted a bit of relax,
Speaker 2: like the ability to exhale at the end. I think
Speaker 2: we'd had earned by the time we got there, and
Speaker 2: that would have been a nice way to be like, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's it, that's the ending. But yeah, really good performances,
Speaker 2: really interesting choices directorially, like just the way the way
Speaker 2: shots were set up I thought was really interesting and
Speaker 2: different and unique. Yeah, and the casting was top tier. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I would say.
Speaker 1: It did a really good job. Yay, Well we've watched Zola.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, uh, thank you everybody so much
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