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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Benow. Then I do love a

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Speaker 1: good spy thriller as long as it is thrilling. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is an interesting movie, black Bag. And so if

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Speaker 1: I were to tell you that this is a spy thriller,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people listening today will be thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, car chases, explosions, gun shots to James Bond.

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Speaker 1: Now that show that was just so this is this

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Speaker 1: is more of a Tinker Taylor Soldier spy talky talky

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Speaker 1: spy thriller where instead of instead of shootouts and double

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Speaker 1: seven and his license to kill this movie is a

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Speaker 1: license to have a dinner party. Like literally, the biggest

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Speaker 1: action in this movie does happen around a dining table,

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Speaker 1: and there is I can confirm there is only one

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Speaker 1: gun shot in the entire movie. Also, you won't miss it.

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Speaker 1: And that's all I'm going to say now. So, and

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Speaker 1: the reason and the reason this is a little bit

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Speaker 1: different is it comes from director Steven Soderberger kind of

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Speaker 1: burst onto the scene with sex, livees and videotape back

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Speaker 1: in the nineties and then has crafted this really interesting

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Speaker 1: career where he's done things like Contagion, which turned out

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Speaker 1: to be prophetic to movies like Magic, Mike Ocean's eleven

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Speaker 1: Logan Lucky, lots of different types of movies. Some of

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Speaker 1: them were great, some of them were okay, some of

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Speaker 1: them not so good. But he certainly has his own

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Speaker 1: distinctive style, bringing sort of indie filmmaking to the mainstream.

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Speaker 1: And so to tell this spy thriller, he's assembled like

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Speaker 1: the most incredible cast of British actors. You've got Kate

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Speaker 1: Blanchette and Michael Fassbender who played married spies working for

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Speaker 1: this UK intelligence agency. Kate Blanchette's no, it's like miss

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Speaker 1: Smith Smith thinking, thinking person, thinking person's mister and missus Smith.

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Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at this movie. And

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Speaker 1: so Catherine is sort of a field agent. She's you know,

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Speaker 1: she's the super spy, very accomplished. And her husband, George,

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Speaker 1: he's sort of a human lie detector. He's the guy

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Speaker 1: who's behind the scenes, sort of in charge of interrogations

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Through marriage to that, yeah, well

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Speaker 1: they're a rising pair. But they but the one thing

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Speaker 1: that's clear from the start is they will do anything

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Speaker 1: for each other. Like she says to him, just point blank,

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Speaker 1: would you kill for me, George, and he says yet

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Speaker 1: without question. So that's the sort of relationship they have.

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Speaker 1: But it gets tested when George is assigned with finding

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Speaker 1: a mole in the organization. Someone in their close circle

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Speaker 1: is a traitor who's potentially selling the secrets of this

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Speaker 1: black bat of this Well, black bag means kind of

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Speaker 1: like things that are things that have kept secret, like

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Speaker 1: a secret operator. It's in the black bag, and you

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Speaker 1: can't talk about it to anybody, even your wife, you can't.

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Speaker 1: If it's in the black bag, you can't talk about it.

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Speaker 1: And so, so his operation is in the black bag

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Speaker 1: to find this, to find this mole, and the at

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Speaker 1: risk is this cyber hacking super device, doomsday device called Severus, which,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, is the worst part of the film.

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Speaker 1: It's a mcguffin to end all mcguffins. But just put

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Speaker 1: that to one side. Forget I ever said it, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and so and so George has got to find this mole,

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Speaker 1: and he he thinks the best way to do this, well,

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Speaker 1: you can put them on an actual light detector, you

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Speaker 1: could surveil them, you could do all of those things. No,

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Speaker 1: but why would you invite them all over for a

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Speaker 1: dinner party. So he gets the key suspects to their

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Speaker 1: house with him and Kate Blanchette sit them around the

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Speaker 1: dinner table and they have, you know, some high stakes

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Speaker 1: conversation over a curry. He makes them a masala and

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Speaker 1: the way they go. But you look at the actors

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Speaker 1: around this table, right, So you've got reggae Jean Page

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Speaker 1: from Bridgeton, the Duke of Hastings Amazing, could be a

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Speaker 1: future James Bond, justly, Naomi Harris money Penny from the

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Speaker 1: Daniel Craig James Bond movies. You've got Tom Burke who

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Speaker 1: was in Furiosa, and Marissa Abella who played Amy Wineho

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Speaker 1: in Back to Black. So you've got all those, plus

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Speaker 1: Kate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender around a table and they're

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Speaker 1: sort of drinking wine. The wine might be laced with

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Speaker 1: truth serum that George has put in there. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's legal, but anyway, and so then as

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Speaker 1: they start to have a bit of the plank, they

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Speaker 1: starts billing secrets about failed operations. Also, you reveal there's

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Speaker 1: quite a few intra office relationships going on the HR

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Speaker 1: department at this UK officer have a nightmare and so

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Speaker 1: and then they kind of wait to see who will

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Speaker 1: reveal themselves as the Trader, and then you know, they

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Speaker 1: have this dinner party. It ends in you know, in

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Speaker 1: pretty acrimonious circumstances. They all go off. George monitors what

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Speaker 1: happens in the wake of this dinner party, and then

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Speaker 1: gets them all back together for another dinner party. It's

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Speaker 1: a two point zero very much to see for the

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Speaker 1: final kind of you know, it's almost like the Sherlock

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Speaker 1: Holmes well, you know, if you you know, you told

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Speaker 1: me this before, but now how do you explain this?

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Speaker 1: And then they do the big rule the Traders without

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Speaker 1: Alan company and so so there is not a lot

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Speaker 1: of you know, sort of like action in the way

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Speaker 1: we traditionally think about it in a spy movie. But

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Speaker 1: there's plenty of fireworks from a conversational point of view.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. How many how manys Berkans are

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Speaker 1: you giving? That? Well, it gets knocked down a bit

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Speaker 1: because of the mcguffin storyline, because it's so dumb and

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Speaker 1: it just makes it unnecessarily convoluted. And Pierce Brosnan is

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Speaker 1: sort of the boss of the of the intelligence and

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Speaker 1: he's the one who's he's the one in charge of

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Speaker 1: the mcguffin, and it's like, that's not so great, but

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Speaker 1: otherwise it's really really great adult cinema that we don't

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Speaker 1: really see anymore. I'm going to give this one three

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Speaker 1: and a half. Okay, all right, I'm in very good. Yeah.

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