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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben o'she Good morning, Ben, Good

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Speaker 1: morning guys.

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Speaker 2: How do we feel about James McAvoy, Oh, very very clever.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're going to feel different about him after you

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Speaker 1: watch Speak No Evil. I'm just warning you.

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Speaker 2: So lucky. We know he's a great actor.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen him in films like a tonements,

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Speaker 1: the Split movies, and the X Men movies. He's been

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Speaker 1: great in everything across a range of different styles and genres.

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Speaker 2: But in this.

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Speaker 1: Movie he is such an unlikable, unhinged a hole that

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Speaker 1: if we didn't know that he was a good actor,

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Speaker 1: you would think there's something wrong with this bloke. He

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Speaker 1: is so good at it. He leans into his villain

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Speaker 1: era in a way that a lot of actors just

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Speaker 1: do not commit in the same le. And so this film,

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Speaker 1: Speak No Evil is a remake of a Danish thriller

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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty two, quite a recent movie. And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't just this under the radar Danish movie. This was

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Speaker 1: an acclaimed Danish thriller in a way that you know,

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Speaker 1: like Scandinavian films are grim, in a way that only

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Speaker 1: the Scandies can do. Yeah, and that's what this film

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Speaker 1: was like, and this new film has been remade by

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Speaker 1: Blumhouse Productions, who make you know, they're kind of the

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Speaker 1: biggest producers of horror.

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Speaker 2: They do all the big horror move.

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Speaker 1: And so, but it follows the very same premise, which

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Speaker 1: is basically, you've got this couple. In this case, it's

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Speaker 1: an American couple played by Mackenzie Davis who was in

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Speaker 1: Terminated Dark Fate. She was a super soldier and she's

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Speaker 1: also in Blade Runner twenty forty nine, and Scoot McNairy

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Speaker 1: who was in Argo. So they're this American couple with

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Speaker 1: a young daughter on holiday. Yes, Scoot Scoot couldn't be

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Speaker 1: anything but.

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Speaker 3: American, exactly exactly a company who flows.

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Speaker 1: They're on holiday in Italy and Tuscany maybe, and they're

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Speaker 1: having a nice time, but you can tell maybe the

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Speaker 1: marriage is a bit rocky. And then they bump into

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Speaker 1: this other couple who happens to be holidaying at the

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Speaker 1: same resort, played by James McAvoy. He plays Paddy and

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Speaker 1: his partner Kira played by Aisling Franciosi, who was in

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Speaker 1: The Nightingale. And this couple, you know, compared to these

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Speaker 1: buttoned down Americans, they're free spirits, and so straight away

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Speaker 1: they're kind of attracted to, you know, how laid back

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Speaker 1: they are, how they just want to have fun because

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Speaker 1: you know, their own marriage is maybe you know, on

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Speaker 1: the is a bit rough at the moment. They're not

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Speaker 1: experiencing that same sort of happiness that they once did,

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Speaker 1: so they just kind of gravitate towards these larger than

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Speaker 1: life Brits. And so then when they get an invitation

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Speaker 1: to visit their home in the UK countryside for a

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Speaker 1: weekend get away, they're like, oh, we don't really know them,

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Speaker 1: is it a good idea? And like, come on, like

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Speaker 1: they're such good fun. This is what we need. This

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Speaker 1: will help us get our marriage back on track. So far,

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Speaker 1: so good, right, So off they go pack up the

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Speaker 1: doorter in a little special like sleepy Toy. Off they

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Speaker 1: go into the UK countryside. Straight away things start to

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Speaker 1: unravel because Paddy James mack boy just loves needling people.

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Speaker 1: He just loves getting under their skin in a way

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Speaker 1: that you know, there's no other way around.

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Speaker 2: It's just a bit of a prick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so so Mackenzie Davis's character, Luise is a vegan,

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Speaker 1: and so the first thing he does is I'm cooking

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Speaker 1: a special dinner tonight, a roast duck. I've killed the

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Speaker 1: prized duck on the farm. I've been raising this duck

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Speaker 1: since it was a chick. It was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It actually I was almost crying when I chopped its

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Speaker 1: head off. And that's what we're having for dinner tonight.

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Speaker 1: And then she's those people's favorite, a vegan. She's and

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Speaker 1: she's thinking to herself to hold this bloke. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: she's saying to her husband like, what am I supposed

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Speaker 1: We've just arrived. And the husband's like, well, you just

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Speaker 1: like have a bite. And then of course she's looking

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Speaker 1: at her husband like what do you mean, just have

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Speaker 1: a bite? He serious, mate, And then of course you

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Speaker 1: got James McAvoy carving up the duck and like with

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Speaker 1: the with the with the carving fork with a piece

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Speaker 1: of duck holding it out for her to take a

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Speaker 1: bite off the fork, and everybody's just waiting to see

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Speaker 1: what happens, and not wanting to cause a fust, not

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Speaker 1: wanting to cause conflict.

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Speaker 2: She takes a bite.

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Speaker 1: So that sets the scene for how their values are

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Speaker 1: going to be slowly eroded over this weekend as Patty

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Speaker 1: just keeps pushing their buttons over and over again because

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Speaker 1: they're quite woke. They're kind of you know, all about

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Speaker 1: kind of like modern life these days and trying to

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Speaker 1: avoid confrontation.

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Speaker 2: He's the opposite.

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Speaker 1: He's like, you know, how can we create the friction,

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Speaker 1: Like why aren't people honest these days? If nothing else,

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Speaker 1: you know, by the end of this weekend, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make you have honest conversations, which is the last

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Speaker 1: thing these Americans really want to do. And so if

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Speaker 1: films that are a bit cringe worthy are a bit awkward,

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Speaker 1: and if you feel that, if you feel that kind

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Speaker 1: of social awkwardness yourself when you're watching movies, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a tough watch. Figure the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a thriller horror movie, just that

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Speaker 1: alone is enough to terrify you. And there's one there's

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Speaker 1: one moment that you just never forget. It's got James

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Speaker 1: McAvoy staring into Scoots character's eyes so awkwardly as he's

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Speaker 1: singing the Bangle Eternal Flame. No, So just picture that.

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Speaker 1: And then where it differs from the Danish original is

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Speaker 1: the Danish original is just so dark and grim all

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Speaker 1: the way to the end of the ending. You walk

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Speaker 1: away from it going, oh my god, I never want

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Speaker 1: to watch a movie again. And this one ops in

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Speaker 1: the final act to go for a bit more of

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Speaker 1: a Hollywood ending, and it throws in a bit of horror,

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Speaker 1: bit of violence as Mackenzie Davis's character tries to kind

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Speaker 1: of take control of everything and save her family. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't hate that necessarily because it's a better viewing

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Speaker 1: experience probably, but it does kind of mean that this

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Speaker 1: film just turns into a fairly standard.

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Speaker 2: Genre movie themselves. They've got to can't help themselves.

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Speaker 1: And before that, it's such a slow burn, and it's

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Speaker 1: a film that explores like some really interesting themes, you know,

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Speaker 1: themes about masculinity, themes of like parenting. Like if you

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Speaker 1: see someone who you don't agree with their parenting, it's

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Speaker 1: taboo to criticize, right, you just go, I'm not the parents,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna I can't sleave it into them. But

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Speaker 1: this film is all about testing those boundaries and that

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Speaker 1: side of it. The first kind of half awesome. The

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Speaker 1: last thirty percent of the film kind of goes okay, well,

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Speaker 1: it becomes pretty standard.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if they did change it with test audiences.

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Speaker 3: They still do that. Sometimes the thing is.

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Speaker 1: The original is just is just so bleak. There's no

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Speaker 1: way Western audiences on mainstream morning I.

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Speaker 2: Don't muck around with it. Don't play, they don't play.

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Speaker 2: They're not making it for you. Well, how many duck

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Speaker 2: alah wrongs are you giving? Duck allah wrong? That is brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Just because of James macavoy's performance alone, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give this one a really solid three stars.

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Speaker 3: Right, very good, I mean, yeah, definitely. Look, we're both

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Speaker 3: watching the trailer. We're both still recovering from the trailer.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ben, thank you