WEBVTT - Movie Check-In 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.440 Warren't. Today's episode contains spoilers for various movies that we 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:10.360 have that we're fond of, including The Secret Agent Who 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:31.680 Left Handed Girl, Sentimental Value and All You Need Is Kille. Hello, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:33.440 my name is Jasoncepcion. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.400 Yes, and I'm Rosie Knight. How's it going? 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.080 And welcome back to Extra Vision. Love by Guys. Are 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.120 we'd have to be your favorite shows, movies, comics of 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.120 pop culture, Company from my Heart, where we're bringing you 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.920 three episodes a week, plus news plus news. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.640 In today's episode, as we tease in the spoiler warning, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.199 we are going to be talking about some of the 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.880 movies we've checked out this year, but I haven't had 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.240 a time to talk about because there's so many incredible 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.880 movies and TV shows coming out that we have been covering. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.200 But for first, let's get into it. Let's talk about 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.360 these movies. Okay, Rosie, You and I are avid movie fans. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.480 We love a movie. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.160 We love to go to the theater. If I'm missing 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.319 in the theater, I'll always rent and or buy a 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.680 correct film. This time of year, it being late February, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.520 as we head down the ski slope of Awards season, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:28.080 past the Golden globes past the BAFTAs, and that's a 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.960 whole thing that we will talk about in No God, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:38.959 Oh God. On our way towards SAG Independent Spirit and 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:44.039 the Academy Awards. It's always a time in which you 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.720 and I and I think all movie fans seek to 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:53.280 just get prepped to know about these films that are 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.800 nominated in various award ceremonies and have our own opinions, 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.880 because it's always fun to have our opinions. And so 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.080 today we're going to talk about some movies that we 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:07.120 have seen recently that we love. Some of them are 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:14.960 are nominated in various award programs, some of them are not. Regardless, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:16.120 we're fond of these movies. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.840 Let's begin. I'll unveil my first movie. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.079 I do think if we were living in a more 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:27.280 just world, this should have been nominated as the Taiwanese 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.119 entry into as well. It was nominated as the Taiwanese 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.280 entry into the Oscars. I believe it should have been 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.280 up for Best Foreign Language Film. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:36.760 It was not. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:43.080 But this is a really incredible film by Shanshi Sashao, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.800 who you probably know best from co producing movies alongside 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.200 Sean Baker, Like Florida project like Takeout, which is my 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.480 favorite Sean Baker movie, which she also co directed. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.799 I love love Takeout as a New York guy. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.079 And crazy movie. I just recently did beautiful film. There's 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.360 a gorgeous, gorgeous. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.519 Watching Criteria now. If you have Criterion, you can see 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:07.880 it now. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.000 And I will say there is so much of Takeout 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.280 in Left Handed Girl. Sean Baker even said that I 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.239 recently did a Q and A with Sean and Charles Jang, 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.120 the lead who plays ming in Takeout. It's such an 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.560 unbelievable movie. If I'm sure, if you're a New York 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.240 if you're someone who's ever worked a really shitty service job. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.320 There's so many layers to it. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.280 It's one of the true movies that captures the drudgery 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.720 of everyday life. And the reason I mention it is 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.600 because Shishing had co directed that. And when you see 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.440 Left Handed Girl open in these night markets, you just 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.920 feel that same raw energy. This kind of hybrid filmmaking 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.720 where you know that some of the people you're seeing 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.000 on screen are actually just living their day to day 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.680 lives and some of them are actually you. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:51.400 Know, performers. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.880 In this we follow a young girl who is told 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.880 by her grandfather that her left hand is essentially a 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.360 devil hand, and that leads to kind of getting into 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.880 these scrapes where anything bad she wants to do, she 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.280 just does it with her left hand. It's a really 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.040 great parable about like superstition and belief and the way 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.920 that things people say to you when you're a kid 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.600 can shape you. But it's also this unbelievably engaging family 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.279 drama with incredible performances. It will grip you. It feels 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.960 like this kind of vital indie cinema. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.960 That we just need so so much more. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.479 Of, and I feel like it's gonna go straight into 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.240 criteria and if there's any justice. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.680 It kind of reminds me of the era. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.479 When like I was watching a lot of movies under 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.880 what they would call the tart and Asia Extreme banner, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.599 which was like a British way of releasing movies, but 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.080 it was very much in the direction of like Chinese 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.320 cinema like All About Lily Shueshoe, or Japanese cinema like 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.040 Battle Royale. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.239 There's kind of this rawness and truth and kind. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.120 Of energy to it that reminds me of that Zero's era, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.120 and I just was so blown away. It's on Netflix, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.800 which is one of the most incredible things. This movie 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.279 has probably been seen, as Sean Baker told me the 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.360 other day, by more people than all of his other movies. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.120 Put together, because it is on that It's crazy. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.560 Yeah, so you can watch it, and it is I'm 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.200 hoping we'll set her up for many, many good movies 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.040 going forward. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.120 And yeah, I just I love it. And it's it's 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.080 got so much energy. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.960 It's gonna make you cry, it's gonna make you laugh, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.160 it's gonna make you want to rebel against your family, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.640 but also like find the members of your family you love. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.080 It's. Yeah, it's a masterpiece. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:36.400 I absolutely love the films of apparent union hater Sean Baker. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.039 Look, we can get it. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.000 I just want to say we have talked on this 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.200 podcast about me of Sean Baker's problems. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.200 We get it later, but I but you know you're 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.839 Here's what I appreciate about Sean is when you watch 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.320 his movies, when you watch Takeout and I will watch 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.040 Left Handed Girl this week. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.680 Which he did coprid h and kind of helped. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:06.239 Yes and even in Nora to an extent. There it 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.080 is an if you were feeling in any type of way, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:21.720 like troubled by the ongoing you know, accretion of media conglomerates, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.960 like buying each other and feeling like there's a uniformity 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:32.120 to films there there isn't if you just screep down 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.240 like two or three levels and. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.320 Sean Baker is is one an oscar So this is 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.960 not that's the top level of scraping. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.480 Ye go below you can see direct Debon Dren who 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.720 like the Guy in a Parasite all of his movies. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.360 You can find incredible movies by people. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.960 Like she s and it's just so many great but 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.480 you'll make us out there. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.839 Even Takeout, and you know, I don't know, it's like 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.440 that feels like a movie, and I don't I don't 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.799 mean to say this as a way to like discount 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.120 the people who worked on it, and there's probably you 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.240 know who work clearly very hard on it. But it 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.280 will make you, Yeah, it will make you feel like 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.000 you could make a movie if you got together with 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:14.560 your frenzy. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.160 Is what's amazing about Takeout. They made it in the 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:17.600 best way. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.600 Three thousand dollars and it was it was Shihang, it 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.840 was Charles Jang, the lead, and it was Sean Baker, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.800 and the three of them basically set themselves up in 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.640 the takeout the real restaurant with the real workers. The 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.520 women you see there who is so funny and so incredible, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.080 that's the real woman who worked behind the counter, and 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.080 those were her real customers for the most part. And 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.800 that was the rawness and realness. I think that makes 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.440 it still sing like twenty two, twenty three years later. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.640 But also I said, that was my first question, Jason, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.600 when I was asking Charles and Sean about. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:53.760 It, was. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.360 Like, how does it feel to have made something just 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.600 with your friends and just gone out there made it, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.840 and then twenty five years later people are still looking 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.080 back and talking about it because that is just you 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.400 never imagine it, right, but it makes you feel like 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.760 you could be that excited that you could do it 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:10.680 and have that energy. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.520 That movie was shot very cheaply. Left Handed Girl was 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.480 shot on iPhone. Yeah, I don't know about primarily, but 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:17.400 in large part on. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.520 Iphons, which we know Sean also did with Tangerine, which 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.160 is another one of his best movies in my opinion. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.840 And from what I've read, not a twenty years later 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.560 shot on iPhone where it was like a rig with 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.679 twenty iPhones, you know what, I like, like an iPhone 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.800 at a time. I'm sure they had multiple iPhones, but 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.640 you know what I mean, it's not like there's not 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.559 like a ten thousand dollars rig to put all these 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.200 iPhones together. All of which is to say, you know, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.960 like video editing software like Resolve Da Vinci Resolve is 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:55.439 available with eighty five percent of the features like unlocked 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.000 on the free version, like you can anybody can make 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.040 a movie. You can go make a movie right now 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:02.320 if you wanted to. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.079 Literally. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.760 And also, guys, I think that's such a great point, Jason, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.080 because something else that Sean Baker made at the same 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.360 time as this, so again and like we said, union 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.200 issues there. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.160 I had many issues with the Nora that I've forgot. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.480 You can go read about it on the Hollywood Reporter. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.760 Hollywood Reporter has a very good interview with members of 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.760 the crew on a Nora, and you can. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.160 Read about it, listen to our all conversations about it. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.160 But but, but, but I do think that there is 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.600 a power to reminding people they can make things themselves. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.200 And there is an eleven minute short short film that 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.960 Sean Baker made All on iPhone starring Michelle Yohe that 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.479 was recently released as part of kind of an art project, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.760 and you can see again this kind of notion of 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.680 even as he grows, he's always trying to say like, hey, guys, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.560 there's still a way you can do this, Like there's 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.400 still something you can make. And I have to say 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.600 he was there sign in movie posters and talking to 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.160 people who made make movies. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.200 For like hours after the movie. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.840 So yeah, it's definitely a cool time to remind yourself 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:02.760 like you can do that. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.520 And guess what, you don't need to use AI, guys. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.319 You can just do it yourself. You can do it. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:07.800 Do it yourself. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.079 Who's gonna make the first X ray vision? Listen to 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.640 a movie? We will be at the premie. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.240 Make it. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.199 It's very easy to do, not very easy, but it's 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.160 very easy to make it successible. It's a lot harder 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.280 make something good. But that's kind of the fun. 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.079 Yeah, Exactly. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.080 One of the movies that I've seen recent that I've 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.600 really really loved is and this is an award a 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.320 bait movie is The Secret Agent, directed by clebre Mondino Filo. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:43.760 Sorry if I mispronounced that starring Wagner Mora, Carlos Francisco, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:49.000 Tanya Maria and others. And it is a movie about 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.600 It's set in nineteen seventy seven. There's a lot there's 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.080 all these wonderful references in this movie to what a 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.600 great movie year. It is like Star Wars. They're talking 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.200 like Jiz is a huge plot point in this film. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.120 Incredible. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.280 It's set in Brazil. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:06.200 Period piece. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:11.800 Yeah, set in Brazil in nineteen seventy seven was the 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:18.720 middle of Brazil's two decade military dictatorship. Brazil had suffered 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.720 a handful of coups in the mid twentieth century, and 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:31.080 then in sixty five, the military very interesting in contrast 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:38.000 to other South American dictatorships, took power essentially and sincerely, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:44.240 I guess in their view to protect democracy. And this 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.080 is this is set in the middle of that period, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:53.520 a period of repression where resistance cells kind of like 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:58.439 ragtag resistance cells have formed, and oftentimes this resistance was 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:04.080 led by the kind of political elites, upper middle class 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:09.600 and wealthy members of the Brazilian ruling class who initially 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.560 had supported the military dictatorship, but now we're like, oh, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.559 we've made a mistake. And are trying and are trying 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.080 to struggle against us. Wagner More plays a former teacher 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.160 who's caught in the middle of this. He's on the run, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:29.920 he's fleeing, and he is placed by this resistance cell 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.480 like in Receive. It's during carnival, and he's being hidden 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.800 there along with other political refugees from around the country 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.800 in like a collection of safe houses, and the movie 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.600 takes It's interesting because it takes a long time to 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.600 get going, and I think what it's trying to do 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.199 is really put you in the middle of the confusion of. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.959 What the imagione of what it's like to be to be. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.199 In this dictatorship that you don't know the shape of it. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.680 It's hard to know what's real. The military and the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.160 ruling forces control the media to a large extent, and 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:15.480 there's a lot of like self dealing and like right 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.400 wing looting of industries going on. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:18.600 Ye. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.840 Wager More plays this guy Armando, who worked like at 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:29.120 a research university and they developed this really cool technology 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:36.600 and you know, basically a like regime connected industrialist came along. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.880 It was just like great, nice technology. I own it now, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.920 and if you try and do anything about it, like 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.760 I'll kill you and actually sends two hitman after Armando 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.840 to try and find him. And but what really struck 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.200 me about this movie is it unexpectedly opens up at 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.600 a certain point where so he's he's all the while 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:01.600 he is recording his like an interview you with the 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.400 organizers of this resistance cell. They can't they have no 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.880 power at this time, or very little power. What they're 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.480 trying to do is just basically get everything down on 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.160 tape so that hopefully one day in the future something 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.679 can be done. Right. And so he's talking about, you know, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.760 how he came to be on the run, what happened 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.680 to him, what happened to his wife, et cetera. His 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:29.840 child is being raised by his wife's father, who is 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.440 a projectionist in a cinema, and this is where a 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.600 lot of the Jaws stuff and that kind of stuff 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.920 comes in. A big plot point is an argument between 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.280 the father in law and Armando to take this young 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.920 kid to Jaws, which is very scary. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.840 And it has this huge payoff, like emotionally, that huge 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:49.720 emotional path. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.440 Well, Jason, something I think. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.560 Is really cool about this movie that you kind of 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.120 I didn't even really think about because it is so immersive, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.840 and it definitely put me in the mind of like 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.480 again kind of this like Theo's indie era, like the 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.920 French movie a prophet Less said about that director now Beta, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.480 but that movie is fucking incredible, Like there was again 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:15.440 these raw immersive even like you know, Spielberg got into 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.400 it a little bit when he tried to do his 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.920 movie about the Olympic bombing and stuff, these kind of 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.000 intimate chamber dramas, but when you pull out, there's this huge, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.840 big punch of kind of like the ripple effect. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.440 And yeah, I mean, also, it feels crazy that. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:35.120 A movie that's essentially about like an Anarco communist like 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.320 resistance group is also like one of the most celebrated 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.320 movies of the year in twenty twenty six. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:41.640 It's like really surreal. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.640 I think that there is something too, And this goes 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.480 for the other movie. I'm going to talk about sentimental value, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.200 which people have heard me talk about before. But so 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.160 this movie opens up and at a certain point you 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.080 realize that there's a present day timeline and that there's 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.080 these two universes researchers who are listening to the tapes 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.680 that Armando put down and they're studying them, and and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.520 what really affected me is like one of them is 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.440 you know, incredibly moved, goes out and seeks out Armando's 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.480 son and tries to talk to him about his dad. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.000 He has no memories of the only thing he you know, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.800 he remembers very almost nothing basically about his dad. And 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.400 and then there's the other researcher who's like, is just 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.200 was doing it for the grade and has now like 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.720 moved on to is like surfing Internet and I and 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.200 it made me realize, like that is we're kind of 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.160 living in that now where you just get the feeling 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.920 that once we are past whatever period this is and 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.600 things lighten up to an extent, there's gonna be a 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.240 lot of people who are who just check out, who 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.800 completely check out on what is happening and can't wait 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.120 to check out. You know. That's kind of like the 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:58.000 the the curse and the gift of peace and stability 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.600 and success is people just like check out. And the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.480 other thing about it, and it's just the same thing 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.560 that I love about sentimental value is it feels like 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:12.760 there is an understanding in international cinema that to tell 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.880 stories that reflect the world, to reflect what is happening. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.879 It is necessary to create these structures that stretch over 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:28.879 multiple years, multiple lifetimes of people's lives intergenerationally. You can't 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.840 just tell a story that seeks to kind of encapsulate 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.000 the feeling that we're all having, the people are having 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.199 about the world and the way it's changing without having 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:49.080 this multi timeline, multi generational kind of feeling that allows 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:54.119 the story to trace the ripple effects of decisions that 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.480 were made decades previously to the main timeline of the story. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.760 And I think it's it's such a wonderful way to 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.520 engage with the story. I mean, you know, and it's 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:10.960 when it's really well done, it's incredibly moving. And the 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.399 Secret Agent was one of those not moving at maybe 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.399 in the way that like, you know, for me, it 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.800 was really about this feeling of, you know, one day 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.880 this is going to pass. People are going to study this, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.480 and they're also. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:23.679 All of the forget it. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.840 They're going to forget and all of the texture and 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:35.960 fear and and togetherness and the raw kind of emotion 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.960 of the period is going to get lost in translation 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:40.960 and it's going to be really hard to pick it 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.359 up again. That idea was is really interesting and I 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.800 also think, you know, people may know that the former 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:55.760 dictator of Brazil or extremely right wing president multiple time 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.160 COVID survivor the ex president pol scenario, was put in 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.840 prison for you know, his attempted coup and take over 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.200 the country. And you know, as we sit here, we're 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.439 probably wondering, like why we can't do that? And I 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.679 do wonder if some of that South Korea did the 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.800 same thing, put a president who tried to take over 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.960 the country, who like in jail, and they have the 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.560 similar issue as Brazil, which is they went through a 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:26.080 period of military of dictatorship. So and kind of understood 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.960 like what how, what that is, what it looks like, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.480 what it was like, and how important it is to 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:39.000 kind of smack back against. So it's a really incredible 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.160 movie that like sneaks up on you, and I mean 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.280 sneaks up on you. Like this is a movie where 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.520 you may find yourself during the first hour being like 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.960 what the fuck am I even like what's I don't 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.199 understand what the story is, but but it is worth it. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.000 Yeah, I love that. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:59.399 Also historical movie. Wagnamora making a lot of waves. He 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.639 won Best at It Can, which set him up for 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.840 his Oscar norm which he did get, which I believe 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:09.520 makes him a first, the first Latin American actor to 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:10.800 be nominated. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.680 For Best Filian, first Brazilian. 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.800 Actor nominated for Best Actor. Love that for him. Very 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.640 excited for more people to watch this. Hopefully this will 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:25.320 be a movie that people can tie to the actions 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.160 of today. But we shall see, I guess. But yeah, 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.280 I mean, this is truly a great movie. I was 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.159 so glad after you saw it that you were like, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.679 this is a must watch, because it immediately moved up 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:35.080 my list. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.320 Let's take a quick break and we'll be back with 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:58.080 our other favorite movies. Will and we're about, Hey, Rosie, 0:20:58.119 --> 0:20:58.919 what's your next movie. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:20:59.919 I'm gonna go for one. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.600 No, this is gonna be our main, like, non Oscar contender, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.080 non critically beloved movie. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.040 But I think it is so worthwhile. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.520 I think in a time that people are getting more 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.520 into strange animation, rediscovering incredible artists like Mobiusts, or watching 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.320 old movies like you know, A Fantastic Planet or something 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.639 like that, I think it's a time that people should 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:29.240 open their eyes to non narrative, strange adventures through animation. 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.520 And the recently released adaptation of All You Need Is Kill, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:38.280 which was an animation release and is now streaming, is 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:39.320 just unbelievable. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.080 In my opinion. The reviews relatively middling. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.399 It's not gonna be nominated for Best Animated Feature, though 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:47.520 I think that is a mistake. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:49.240 This movie is. 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:53.320 So unbelievably beautiful. Obviously, you're probably not gonna get to 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.080 watch at the cinema now it's streaming, but there is 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.560 a reason, gee, kids, pick this movie up. You can 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.040 watch on your projector on your set and inch screen, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:02.440 which I'm sure many of you have. 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.600 It is the same story that we. 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:12.440 Saw adapted in the incredibly enjoyable and underrated Tom Cruise 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.679 Emily Blunt action movie, very underrated Edge of Tomorrow and. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.080 Actually good, an actual side fi masterpiece. 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.760 Yea yeah, an actual side by masterpiece, a time loop masterpiece. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.439 It's funny, it's engaging, the action is incredible, the robots 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:26.919