Speaker 1: All right, hey there, folks, it is of course Oscars weekend.
Speaker 1: Let's continue to get you caught up. It's movie number
Speaker 1: six Hamnet on our list. We hope you took a
Speaker 1: listen to the five movies we did yesterday. We posted
Speaker 1: those on Saturday to get you caught up, and we
Speaker 1: have five more for you today. And yes, the first
Speaker 1: one we're doing today, which is number six overall that
Speaker 1: we're doing roads, is Hamnet.
Speaker 2: Yes, and this one has eight nominations this evening for
Speaker 2: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Casting, Best Screenplay,
Speaker 2: Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score.
Speaker 2: This movie was so powerful, it was so emotional. This
Speaker 2: is one of the two on the list that made
Speaker 2: me cry, not just a few tears, but actually booho.
Speaker 1: Cry, and a lot of that boohooing. And yes has
Speaker 1: to do with themes. What it has to do with
Speaker 1: some of these performances will tell you. The cast here,
Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley, you've been hearing a lot about her, of course,
Speaker 1: and her performance in this movie. She, of course is
Speaker 1: nominated for Lead Actress. Paul Meskel and then Emily Watson,
Speaker 1: directed by Chloe Jao, already an Oscar winner, and this
Speaker 1: one did pretty well at the box office. Ninety six
Speaker 1: million people did show up to see it. Now, I
Speaker 1: had seen some of the previews and it didn't look
Speaker 1: like my cup of tea, and I wasn't exactly sure
Speaker 1: what it was about. Somebody had to tell me what
Speaker 1: it was about. Maybe people know now, yes.
Speaker 2: So, and I actually did a little research on this
Speaker 2: because I needed to know how much of it was true.
Speaker 2: But the synopsis is this, after losing their son Hamnett
Speaker 2: to the plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief
Speaker 2: in sixteenth century England. A heater, sorry, a healer, Agnes
Speaker 2: must find strength to care for her surviving children while
Speaker 2: processing her devastating loss. And so I went on to say, wait,
Speaker 2: how much of this is true? Because the idea in
Speaker 2: the movie is that, basically William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet based
Speaker 2: on the grief he felt for losing his son to
Speaker 2: the plague. And his son's name was Hamnet, which apparently
Speaker 2: during those times, is interchangeable with Hamlet. So basically it
Speaker 2: was a play dedicated to his son, to his late son,
Speaker 2: and I never knew that, so that was completely fascinating
Speaker 2: to me. Now, obviously they took creative licenses, but it's
Speaker 2: loosely based on what they believe.
Speaker 3: To have happened. All right.
Speaker 1: This one is rated PG thirteen and runs two hours
Speaker 1: and five minutes. And the audience liked it more than
Speaker 1: the critics, But the critics liked it an awful lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. No, and I think this is this
Speaker 2: reads Rotten Tomatoes. The critics eighty six percent, the audience
Speaker 2: ninety two percent. I will tell you this, this is
Speaker 2: a little slow in terms of its pace. And look,
Speaker 2: it's only two hours and five minutes. That actually was
Speaker 2: fairly short relative to the other Oscar nominated movies we watched.
Speaker 2: But it moves slower because it was it was painful.
Speaker 2: It was painful to watch the tragedy unfold and the
Speaker 2: pain of a mother, the pain of a father, what
Speaker 2: it does to a marriage, what it does to siblings. Look,
Speaker 2: this isn't something you want to enter into watching in
Speaker 2: already a dark mood, because this is this is a
Speaker 2: tough emotional watch.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect from this movie. And
Speaker 1: it's just so weighty. It's just a heavy, agonizing movie,
Speaker 1: and it was it was just it was hard to
Speaker 1: watch for me, and this on the list, probably of
Speaker 1: all the movies, this is the one that I enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching least, one of the ones I enjoyed.
Speaker 3: Least as just a movie experience.
Speaker 1: This is not a criticism or critique of any type
Speaker 1: of movie making, but the type of movie this was
Speaker 1: was just have for me.
Speaker 2: Well, look, any time you have a movie whose central
Speaker 2: theme is getting over the loss of a child like that,
Speaker 2: I can't think of a heavier topic than that. Children
Speaker 2: dying equals really hard movie to watch almost every time.
Speaker 3: Every time.
Speaker 2: There's no almost to it unless it's a horror movie,
Speaker 2: and there that is the only way it could ever
Speaker 2: be anything other than devastating.
Speaker 1: That's why I didn't like this. I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this isn't this is supposed to be upbeat. The kid died,
Speaker 1: we just keep it moving in a horror movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, that is not the case in this one.
Speaker 2: And I actually saw that some people actually cautioned folks
Speaker 2: who have experienced that that this would be especially hard
Speaker 2: to watch this particular movie because it is it's so raw.
Speaker 2: I think raw would be the way I would describe it.
Speaker 2: But the way it was shot, the way it was
Speaker 2: acted the way it was written, it was you were
Speaker 2: I was almost I had time traveled to the sixteen
Speaker 2: hundreds in England, like you felt like you were there,
Speaker 2: that it was so atmospheric, you just I was pulled
Speaker 2: in into the emotions of the movie. I loved it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: That I guess that's the beauty of the movie making.
Speaker 1: It pulls you into the emotion of the movie. And
Speaker 1: that was the problem with it for me. I got
Speaker 1: pulled into the emotion of the movie it and that's
Speaker 1: all I can say, at least about the experience of
Speaker 1: watching the movie versus I mean, it's just like anything else.
Speaker 1: You go to a horror movie, you get scared, right,
Speaker 1: there's an emotion, there's something that pops up. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: fun for you. But this is a movie that did
Speaker 1: deliver on the emotion, and it was I mean almost
Speaker 1: to a point. I said, oh my god, when is
Speaker 1: it going to be the next agonizing scene where somebody
Speaker 1: is just screaming out in agony. It happened over and
Speaker 1: over and over.
Speaker 3: This is a true story.
Speaker 2: When we were watching it, you were looking at me
Speaker 2: and you would just shake your head, like how much
Speaker 2: more can one person take like you just kept looking
Speaker 2: at me with these eyes, like, please make this movie stop.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm like so tortured right now, I can't take
Speaker 2: one more scene like this. And so I think you
Speaker 2: started laughing because it was so overwhelmingly said, look some people,
Speaker 2: and I will admit I have laughed at a funeral before.
Speaker 2: I'm not proud of it. It's actually so embarrassing. But
Speaker 2: I laughter and tears are so closely related. So in
Speaker 2: defensive view, it's just it was so sad that you
Speaker 2: started giggling.
Speaker 1: I wasn't laughing at the emotion of the movie. I
Speaker 1: wasn't laughing at what felt like the ridiculousness of another.
Speaker 1: The scenes were lying back to back to back to
Speaker 1: back of similar these screeches of pain. What it was
Speaker 1: agony these scenes.
Speaker 2: You saw her give birth not once twice, but three
Speaker 2: really times in the woods without Obviously this was a
Speaker 2: time where there was no medication and there were no doctors.
Speaker 2: But she's got this witchy atmosphere, and so she's an
Speaker 2: herbalist and so she was doing everything with earth was going,
Speaker 2: but wanted to give birth out into nature by this tree.
Speaker 2: But you can't stand birth scenes let's just be honest.
Speaker 2: You get so upset when anyone is giving birth in
Speaker 2: a movie. You had to endure that three times in
Speaker 2: this view, I can remember.
Speaker 3: I put it.
Speaker 1: I guess I've blocked it because I don't remember that
Speaker 1: they were birth scenes. Oh my goodness, gracious, it's Look,
Speaker 1: it's just heavy. It's a different movie, and it is
Speaker 1: a beautiful piece of art that might win an Oscar
Speaker 1: for Best Picture.
Speaker 3: It's something to be whole.
Speaker 1: It's frankly amazing what somebody I liked, even though he's
Speaker 1: not nominated, Right, Paul.
Speaker 3: Maskell, I don't believe I like this guy.
Speaker 1: He has as a just some kind of a charm
Speaker 1: to him. Yes that I really enjoyed him in this movie.
Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley's some phenomenon I don't quite understand yet. As
Speaker 1: far as acting goes, she is she is just different.
Speaker 2: She was unreal. Her performance alone was just phenomenal to watch.
Speaker 3: I was in awe of her.
Speaker 2: It was so natural. Again, I said raw earlier. Her
Speaker 2: performance was just raw and real. And that's so hard
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: With all that, And you guess whether or not we'd
Speaker 1: say we recommend that you watch this or skip this.
Speaker 3: Stay here, that answer is next.
Speaker 1: I continue here on Amy and DJ movie number six
Speaker 1: as we get through them all before you watch the
Speaker 1: Ceremony Tonight Hamnet two hours and five minutes.
Speaker 3: Not terrible.
Speaker 1: Their critics love it, the audience loved it, and you
Speaker 1: loved it as well.
Speaker 3: That fairness they rose.
Speaker 2: I loved it. This was one that was gutting difficult
Speaker 2: to watch, and I wouldn't have chosen to watch it
Speaker 2: if we had not set on this journey to watch
Speaker 2: all the movies. I think this one. When I saw
Speaker 2: the subject matter was about the loss of a child,
Speaker 2: I was intrigued to know that it inspired Hamlet, but
Speaker 2: I had heard it was so gutting. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I would have been brave enough to walk into it,
Speaker 2: because I just feel like, sometimes life is so hard
Speaker 2: already to invest time in watching other people's really really
Speaker 2: hard lives. And I maybe that's a cop out on
Speaker 2: my end, but sometimes I'm just after doing the news
Speaker 2: and what we do for a living and kind of
Speaker 2: live in this world of breaking news and terror and
Speaker 2: basically the worst of people. Sometimes the last thing I
Speaker 2: want to do is watch a movie that's also painful
Speaker 2: and just talking about the lowest of lows, losing a child.
Speaker 2: With all that said, I'm so glad I saw it.
Speaker 2: It was a masterpiece, So I would say watch it.
Speaker 1: It's a must it's a must see. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a tough record. You would never say, hey, look for
Speaker 1: a good movie tonight. You got any recommendation, you would say, hey,
Speaker 1: Hamnett when you check out Hamnet tonight.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't. It's just a different You don't watch it,
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is there entertainment value in these right or is it
Speaker 1: a different type of art we're supposed to appreciate versus
Speaker 1: necessarily enjoying as some kind of movie experience.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that you, Yes, you appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and it's a window into a world. It's also it
Speaker 2: gives when you see other people's pain and you can
Speaker 2: actually feel like you're experiencing it and seeing it. It
Speaker 2: also puts your life into perspective. Sometimes I feel like
Speaker 2: when I see things like this, it reminds me to
Speaker 2: hug my children, It reminds me to say I love you.
Speaker 2: It reminds me to be appreciative of just the fact
Speaker 2: that my kids are healthy. So there are some takeaways
Speaker 2: I think from this all.
Speaker 1: So the recommendation as you hear the phone ring in
Speaker 1: the background here if you can hear that. But yes,
Speaker 1: this is one you have to see for no other reason,
Speaker 1: I would say, because Jesse Buckley is a sight to
Speaker 1: behold in this movie. She is extraordinary. So after this,
Speaker 1: up next we go into movie number seven. It'll be
Speaker 1: up on the feed in just a few minutes after
Speaker 1: this one, or right up next in the feed, so
Speaker 1: you'll be able to catch it. The numbe number seven
Speaker 1: is going to be Marty Supreme, and we have a
Speaker 1: confession to make about Marty Supreme, but that one is next.
Speaker 1: We always appreciate you, but we will be talking to
Speaker 1: you very soon.