1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she It's not long enough. 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 2: We get of Ben's introduction because I enjoyed immns. 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: Ben good morning. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 3: Sometimes we forget to talk because we're just bobbing away 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 3: to the theme song, but we want. 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: To talk about this movie because I'm so excited. 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay. So Wicked Little Letters is just an 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 3: example of the sort of movies that the Brits can 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 3: make with their eyes shut, these biographical movies based on 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 3: some tiny piece of forgotten history that they turn into 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 3: a movie that's either riveting or hilarious, or poignant or 12 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,319 Speaker 3: feel good, maybe sometimes all at once. But because they 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 3: are really in their comfort zone when they make these 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 3: types of movies, they're not all created equals. Some are 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 3: really really good, some are only okay, but they're all 16 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 3: very watchable, right, Like if you see one of these 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 3: pop up on your streaming platform where you go along 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: to watch it. In the movies, you're never going to 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 3: walk away that disappointed, like you might go it didn't 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 3: change my life. 21 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: But they're always very very new movie. What was that, 22 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 2: The Thief, the Wife, and the. 23 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: Potato, they're all they're all really really solid films, and 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 3: so Wicked Little Letters is the latest in that category 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: of filmmaking in the UK. And the reason that they're 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 3: also solid is unlike every other country that tries to 27 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 3: make these movies, like Hollywood or here in Australia, for 28 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: this tiny little island off the coast of Europe, they 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: have the most insane actors. That's got incredible actors, and 30 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 3: so this movie is no exception. You've got Oscar winner 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,279 Speaker 3: Olivia Coleman, which is just phenomenal, one of the greatest 32 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: actors of her generation. 33 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: You've got the young. 34 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 3: Irish actress Jesse Buckley, who's an Oscar nominee, also amazing. 35 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 3: Those two were in the same film together when they 36 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: were on The Lost Daughter, which is an awesome movie. 37 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 3: You've got Timothy Spall, who's fantastic starring Potter so many 38 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: other movies. And so you've got this fantastic, fantastic cast 39 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 3: and it tells the true story and you won't even 40 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 3: believe that this was a real story. So it said 41 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 3: in like nineteen twenties England, in the little seaside village 42 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: of Little Hampton, and this is all true aint And 43 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 3: so back in nineteen twenty the good folk of Little 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: Hampton started receiving obscene anonymous letters. So they would, you know, 45 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: the little letter box hole on the front door through 46 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: would pop this little like literally a little letter, a 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 3: miniature letter, and on the letter would be just the 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 3: most rude, bizarre insults and it looked like they'd been 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 3: written by somebody who didn't really understand how to swear properly, 50 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 3: because it was just kind of like a random collection 51 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 3: of swear words jumbled together that you would never actually 52 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 3: swear like that in real life. But it's someone who's 53 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 3: like is like a ten year old had just learned 54 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 3: some swear words and had written them all down at random. 55 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 3: And so these letters started to pop up, and they 56 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 3: were sent to everybody like the you know, the head 57 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 3: of the police, the vicar, you know, the local townsfolk, 58 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: and it became the talk of the town. No that's right, 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: No one knew where these letters were coming from. It 60 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 3: became the talk of the town pretty quickly. It became 61 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 3: a national scandal, Like we're talking on the front page 62 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: of the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Everybody in the 63 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: UK was talking about Little Hampton and these little letters. 64 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: Who was responsible, you know? And the authorities started to 65 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: point the finger around of various people in the community, 66 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 3: and they pretty quickly thought, you know what, there's of 67 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: all of the you know, the very very good, upstanding 68 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 3: members of Little Hampton, there's one person who stands out. 69 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: That is young single mum from Ireland, Rose Gooding, who's 70 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 3: played in the movie by Jesse Buckley, who's perfect for 71 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: this role. And they've gone, hang on a minute. She's 72 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 3: she's got an illegiti a child, she's come over from Ireland, 73 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 3: she drinks a lot, she goes out to the pub 74 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 3: at night, all of the things that back in the 75 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 3: nineteen twenties she did not do similar And so they've gone, 76 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: it's obviously her. She already swears like a sailor in 77 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 3: real life, so she's probably writing it down as well. 78 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 3: And so this Rose Gooding was so she was arrested. 79 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 3: She was charged with, you know, sort of offending the 80 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 3: public decency, which had something like a ten year jail 81 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 3: term back in those days. So there was this court 82 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 3: case and she was in and out of jail over 83 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: the period of this court case, and her chief accuser 84 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 3: was her next door neighbor, Edith Swan played by Olivia Coleman, 85 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 3: who was this very chased spinster who still lived at 86 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: home with her parents, her dad super super strict religious, puritanical, 87 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: Timothy Spall, and so she was getting these letters and 88 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: becoming so sort of overwrought that her dad has kind 89 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: of pushed her to make a police complaint. And then 90 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 3: so she is kind of the chief accuser. But as 91 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: the police start to investigate this sort of who'd done 92 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 3: it Agatha Christie's style mystery, you know, things start to appear, 93 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 3: you know, more than maybe what you first thought, and 94 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 3: it unfolds him there. I won't give anything more away 95 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 3: from that, but the key to this film is the 96 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 3: performances of Jesse Buckley and Olivia Coleman as these two 97 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: kind of antagonists who are going at each other so 98 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: different in character. One is is, you know, sort of 99 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 3: very pure and upright upstanding, and the other one is 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: just you know, sort of lucy goosey. Basically, both performances 101 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 3: are fantastic. The director Theo Sharick, who did Me Before You, 102 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 3: which was not the J J. Leoyle not the most 103 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: amazing movie. So she's she's here directing this film and 104 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 3: she sort of leans into the idea that you can 105 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: you can make this a film that explores gender roles 106 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: and discrimination and all that kind of stuff, beause obviously 107 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 3: that existed a lot twenties have fun or just have fun, right, 108 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 3: And so the problem with this film, I think is 109 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: it gets caught in between those things. So it goes, Okay, 110 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 3: well let's make a serious statement, but then also let's 111 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 3: play that same scene for laughs. And it's just like 112 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 3: you kind of got to pick a lane, and so 113 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 3: that that kind of that kind of does, you know, 114 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 3: sort of knock it down a few pegs, I think. 115 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: But Olivia Coleman like it's about as close to acting 116 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 3: perfection as you can get, because her character becomes more 117 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 3: and more complicated as the movie goes on. 118 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: She is just so just watching the trailer, the faces 119 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 2: that she sort of the just speaks pages of dialogue 120 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 2: with one little movement of her face. 121 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: And then and then you know someone who is who 122 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 3: is so kind of pure. Then you know, she gets 123 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: to a point where then she kind of just loses 124 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 3: it and starts saying some of these swear words. 125 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: It's just god, it is just old. I know what 126 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: you're saying when you talk about the British, you know, 127 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: the acting royalty in that we've seen them in The 128 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: Harry Potter of the Crown exactly. 129 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 3: Pretty good, pretty good breeding ground for all of those actors. 130 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 3: But yeah, so so it's one of those films I 131 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 3: think if you like this style of filmmaking, you like 132 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 3: British feel good cinema like, you'll dig it a lot. 133 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: In terms of overall cinema like. As I said, it 134 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 3: probably has some some issues in terms of the style 135 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 3: and the tone is a bit all over the shop, 136 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 3: but yeah, it's a very very solid film. 137 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: Kind of movie. Jeenre do they have to search a 138 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: bit harder for us unfortunately? 139 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 3: Now? 140 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, these days absolutely don't get too many Okay, how 141 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: many swears you're giving it? To give it three bleeps? Okay, 142 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: you swear by it all three? I see what you 143 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: did there. Thank you bad, Thank you guys.