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Speaker 1: Bread the Flick with Beno on ninety six FM.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning Bad, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 3: I got some bad news for you, Liz. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: get some feels you're gonna have. I am there's going

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Speaker 3: to be feeling.

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Speaker 2: Okay to say I imagined.

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Speaker 3: No, No, it's not just you don't worry. So like

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Speaker 3: you think about romantic movies that it can be tear jerkers,

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Speaker 3: like the Notebook comes to my Oh yes, I don't

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Speaker 3: get it personally this but past.

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Speaker 2: Line marginally better than the English patient.

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Speaker 3: Past Lives makes the Notebook look like an Adam Sandler comedy.

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Speaker 4: Oh really seriously.

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Speaker 3: So it's the debut feature from Selene's song and it

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Speaker 3: stars Greta Lee from Morning Wars, Who's just she's so

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Speaker 3: hot right now? And like it follows like a number

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Speaker 3: of films and TV shows lately that are kind of

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Speaker 3: like Korean based content that have just becomes so massive

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Speaker 3: in pop culture. So Parasite won the Oscar a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago, TV shows like Beefer, Netflix, Love It,

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Speaker 3: the Bts in the musical sphere super super popular. So

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Speaker 3: Korean pop culture is having a moment right now. This

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Speaker 3: is kind of this is kind of yeah, a combination

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Speaker 3: of Korean and American culture. So Selene Song had this

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Speaker 3: experience in her own life that inspired the movie. She

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Speaker 3: was sitting in a bar with a childhood friend from

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Speaker 3: Korea and her husband, an American man, and she's Korean herself,

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Speaker 3: and so it's two Koreans and an American sitting in

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Speaker 4: So I set up for a joke.

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Speaker 3: And she looked as she looked across this bar in

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Speaker 3: New York, she saw a couple on the other side

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Speaker 3: of the bar sort of looking puzzled in her direction,

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Speaker 3: and clearly they were trying to figure out what the

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Speaker 3: dynamic was at play between these three people. Was it

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Speaker 3: a Korean Korean siblings and an American tour guide? Was it,

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Speaker 3: you know, a Korean husband and wife and their American friend.

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Speaker 3: What was exactly going on here? And she thought, you

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Speaker 3: know what, what a great idea for a film, And

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Speaker 3: so Past Lives starts with this exact setup, three people

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Speaker 3: sitting in a bar, and off camera you hear a

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Speaker 3: couple debating who they are to each other, and then

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Speaker 3: the film unfolds as a kind of like almost like

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Speaker 3: a who Done It?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 3: It unravels the mystery of who these three people are

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Speaker 3: to each other. And it starts off back in Korea,

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Speaker 3: like twenty four years earlier, with a young schoolgirl and

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Speaker 3: her best friend, this boy. They help each other with

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Speaker 3: their schoolwork. They have this really really close bond, and

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Speaker 3: then one day she is kind of ripped from soul

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Speaker 3: in Korea by her parents that emigrate to Canada and

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Speaker 3: she never sees her bff from school again. Twenty five

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Speaker 3: years later, she's now an aspiring playwright in Manhattan and

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Speaker 3: this kid from Korea reaches out on Facebook says, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know are you Hey Sung? It's me. We were schoolmates,

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Speaker 3: and they start chatting and all of a sudden, they

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Speaker 3: sort of start to wonder what might have been if

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Speaker 3: they hadn't been separated as kids, and how their lives

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Speaker 3: would have turned out differently. And she gets married to

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Speaker 3: a bloke actor played by John Magaro from a great

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Speaker 3: movie called First Cow, and it instantly becomes this kind

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Speaker 3: of a love triangle situation, and it is so powerful

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Speaker 3: because Selene's song. The director uses this Koreen concept of

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Speaker 3: in young, which is like the idea that people have

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Speaker 3: past connections from previous lives, and so it's like say,

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Speaker 3: you're on a train and you just catch some random

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Speaker 3: person's eye and you sort of have a bit of

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Speaker 3: a moment, like it's just an instant, little fleeting moment

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Speaker 3: and you just have a connection. It's the idea that

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Speaker 3: in a past life, maybe you were married, and that's

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Speaker 3: why deja vu kind of vibe. And so that's kind

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Speaker 3: of in this in this film as well. And it

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Speaker 3: is so beautiful, Like the film is just just incredibly

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Speaker 3: beautiful to watch. Celen Song's script is just incredible. I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to give too much away because as you

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Speaker 3: watch it, as these little pieces come together, that's the

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Speaker 3: real joy of watching this movie. But I will tell you,

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Speaker 3: like it is an emotional punch in the guts, Like

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Speaker 3: it is just an incredibly poignant film. It really makes

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Speaker 3: you think about your own life, choices that you've made,

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Speaker 3: choices that you didn't make, and what might have been

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Speaker 3: depending on you know, how your life has unfolded, and

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Speaker 3: it's it doesn't happen how you would expect. There's a

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Speaker 3: few surprises along the way, it doesn't necessarily you know,

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Speaker 3: sort of wrap things up in a neat bow, which

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Speaker 3: is I think the best movies are like that. Sometimes Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What I liked about the trailer the idea I got

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Speaker 1: from it, and when I liked it was it seemed

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Speaker 1: like it was so much more subtle than a lot

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Speaker 1: of movies like this you would see where the husband

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Speaker 1: doesn't it look like he's not competing with a straight up.

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Speaker 2: You know, other guy situation.

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Speaker 1: He's competing with something so much stronger as sort of

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Speaker 1: what could have been, what could be? What you know,

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Speaker 1: if what, and that's way harder to deal with than

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Speaker 1: just you know, fair or something.

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Speaker 3: And at one point the husband even sort of remarks, well,

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Speaker 3: You're like, you know, like, how can I compete with this?

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Speaker 3: Like You've got this incredible kind of like parallel live

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Speaker 3: situation and I'm just the evil American husband and so

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Speaker 3: you can't. But there's no villains, there's no heroes, and

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Speaker 3: certainly Greta Lee's character Nora is no hero herself. But

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Speaker 3: it's just so fascinating and so kind of finally designed

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Speaker 3: with that nuance that's just like everyday life, you know,

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Speaker 3: Like it's such a such a beautiful film, I would

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Speaker 3: say my favorite film of the year.

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Speaker 4: So when a trailer does an option often capture a movie,

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Speaker 4: yet that doesn't really does a really good job.

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Speaker 2: And I'm getting goose hearing you talking about.

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Speaker 4: It, so at least you gonna end up like rachelmad Look,

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Speaker 4: this is this is such a good film.

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Speaker 3: I don't know anybody who's seen it who hasn't come

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Speaker 3: away just thinking wow, like I've had a real emotional experience.

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Speaker 3: It's uplifting in its own way as well, Like it's

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Speaker 3: kind of life affirming, and it certainly makes you think

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Speaker 3: about you know, like how you can make the most

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Speaker 3: of your life. It's one of it's a very special movie.

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Speaker 2: So how many sounds like someone got it right? So

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Speaker 2: you're giving it.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give this one four and a half.

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Speaker 4: Stuff it is your favorite of the years, like Cracker.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Ben, I'm so glad that he said it's as

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Speaker 2: good as I thought.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for not giving too much. Thanks guys say talking movies.