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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Beno morning, Good morning guys. I've

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Speaker 1: got one for all the film nerds out there. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: I did like the look of the trailer. This is

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Speaker 1: a film nerd, Yeah, exactly. At least this is going

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Speaker 1: to be right up your alley. So from director Paul

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Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson, who you know, known better to his friends

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Speaker 1: as Pta. That's what all the cool kids call him,

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Speaker 1: so ptaight. He of course is an auteur director who

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Speaker 1: really kicked off his career in great fashion with Boogie

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Speaker 1: Knights and then has given us films like There Will

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Speaker 1: Be Blood, which is considered one of the greatest films

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Speaker 1: of the twenty first century. More recently, Licorice Pizza and

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Speaker 1: Phantom Thread. Both of those films were nominated for Best

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Speaker 1: Picture at the Academy Awards. So he is in the

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Speaker 1: absolute upper echelon of directors in Hollywood. So every time

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Speaker 1: he's got a new film coming out, people are very

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Speaker 1: excited to see what he's going to do. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like, you know, like if the Tarantino who's got

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Speaker 1: a new film coming out, it's just one of those

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Speaker 1: movies that you circle in the calendar as this is

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Speaker 1: going to be interesting, and so his latest film sees

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Speaker 1: him team up with Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time,

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Speaker 1: one battle after another. But I will say right off

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Speaker 1: the bat that timing is everything, and I think, unfortunately

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Speaker 1: for Pta, is timing this time around is just terrible.

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Speaker 1: Who so well, So the film kicks off, like you

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Speaker 1: realize straight away what I'm talking about. So the opening

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Speaker 1: scene in the film is a group of radical left

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Speaker 1: activists in America doing an armed raid on an ice facility.

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Speaker 1: Timing almost down to the day. Oh yeah, not great,

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Speaker 1: not great at all. So you know, it's like every

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Speaker 1: now and then you see this happen where there might

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Speaker 1: be a film about like a plane getting hijacked and

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Speaker 1: then there's you know, some sort of plane crash, or

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Speaker 1: a movie about a shark and then there's a fatal

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Speaker 1: shark attack, or a movie about a bushfire and then

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Speaker 1: there's a devastating bushfire. Like these things, these there's sometimes

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Speaker 1: this timing lines up, and it's always terrible coincidence for

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Speaker 1: the filmmakers, and you know, people impacted by these real

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Speaker 1: life situations. And so unfortunately for Pta, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what the environment in which this film is going to

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Speaker 1: land and it's a bit unfortunate, and he wrote it

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Speaker 1: obviously years ago, and the films take a long time

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Speaker 1: to make. And so after this initial sequence where there's

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Speaker 1: this raid on this immigration detention facility in America, Leonardo

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Speaker 1: DiCaprio's character past plays like a sort of a demolitions expert,

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Speaker 1: and he's he's in love with the sort of the

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Speaker 1: leader of the revolutionaries who whose name is for Fidia,

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Speaker 1: and she's this kind of like really strong African American

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Speaker 1: character who has this weird kind of sexual tension moment

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Speaker 1: with the commanding officer of the detention center played by

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Speaker 1: Sean Penn, which is kind of it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: bit odd at the time, but it really sets a

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Speaker 1: train of events in motion that carries throughout the whole film,

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Speaker 1: where you end up with this sort of weird love

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Speaker 1: triangle between Leo and Pafidia, and then Sean Penn's character,

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Speaker 1: who's a really kind of like uptight military man but

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Speaker 1: has this kind of obsession with this revolutionary and then

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Speaker 1: the film fast forwards sixteen years into the future when

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Speaker 1: the female character as kind of like off the agenda

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Speaker 1: and it's just Leonardo DiCaprio's pat is trying to raise

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Speaker 1: a teenage daughter, and then all of a sudden realizes

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Speaker 1: that this guy from the past, this military dude, is

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Speaker 1: stop at nothing until he captures Leo and his teen

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Speaker 1: daughter played by newcomer Chase Infinity in her first movie role.

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Speaker 1: She's going to be a superstar. I can tell you

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Speaker 1: that Inanity. Yeah what a name, right, It sounds exciting

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Speaker 1: for the movie. Ye, yeah, And so the film kind

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Speaker 1: of goes from there. I would say the positives. It's

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Speaker 1: incredibly well directed. The score is amazing, like the music

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Speaker 1: and the choice of music in this film is just

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Speaker 1: as good as anything you'll ever see in a film.

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Speaker 1: And there are some sequences that cinematically are certain to

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Speaker 1: be iconic and certainly will be studied in film schools

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Speaker 1: for the next twenty years. There's a car chase sequence

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Speaker 1: that is one of the best that I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: captured on film. And so there's a lot of really

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Speaker 1: really good things about it. Oh well, it's not so much.

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Speaker 1: It's not so much because it's you know, this sort

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Speaker 1: of breakneck action. It's just so cleverly done using the

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Speaker 1: that's just so clever. But the negatives Sean Penn's character is,

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Speaker 1: you know, he looks like he's having the time of

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Speaker 1: his life and he's obviously a two time Oscar winner.

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Speaker 1: But it gets a little bit cartoonish, I think, and

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Speaker 1: I think the film, as I mentioned before, the timing

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Speaker 1: the film suffers because you know, when Pta was writing this,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of loosely adapted from a Thomas pinch

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Speaker 1: On novel from nineteen ninety, which was sort of set

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Speaker 1: in the Reagan era in nineteen eighties, this is kind

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Speaker 1: of set in our modern time. So when Pta wrote

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Speaker 1: this film, he kind of conceived it as romanticizing the

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Speaker 1: radical left and ridiculing the conservative politicians. So he kind

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Speaker 1: of deliberately makes them look so stupid. And unfortunately that

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Speaker 1: joke is just not very funny at the moment, because

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Speaker 1: you know, that's not really how no like when Pta

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Speaker 1: came up with this, you know, it just it just

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Speaker 1: hasn't aged well because you look at what's happening in

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Speaker 1: America right now, and who's laughing who's at laughing? At

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Speaker 1: the timing is everything, isn't it all? Right, well, how many?

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Speaker 1: And it also has Benizzio del Toro's in it. Of course,

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Speaker 1: he's amazing as always. He plays he plays just real quick.

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Speaker 1: Bevancia to Toro plays the karate instructor of Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter,

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Speaker 1: and Leo calls him sense all the time, gets him

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Speaker 1: broke in because it wrote him into the action. You

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Speaker 1: can use that is perfect. It looks like classic Vinizzio.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah he is. He is the best. He's the

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Speaker 1: best in this. So what do you give it? I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give it. I'm going to give it four styles.

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Speaker 1: This will get all the nomination. It's an extremely well

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Speaker 1: good movie, extremely extremely well made movie. Lines by the timing,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, amazing. So separate yourself from that and enjoy it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Ben, Thanks Ben, love it, thank you. All right,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's your weekend viewing sort of