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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Benosh. Good morning, Ben, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Brought us today Pedro Pascal. Yeah, yeah, I'm just that's it,

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Speaker 1: that's undone. Yeah, the Internet's boyfriend, Pedro Pascal is so

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Speaker 1: hot right now. Everyone loves Pedro and so he is

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Speaker 1: one of a love triangle basically with Chris Evans and

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Speaker 1: Dakota Johnson in this new film Materialists. Now, before I

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Speaker 1: get into this film, it's normally maybe I wouldn't go

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Speaker 1: into the director straight away, but I think it's important

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Speaker 1: because the director of this film is Selene's song Who.

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Speaker 1: For people who are not familiar with her, she is

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Speaker 1: the Korean Canadian slash American director behind Past Lives, a

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Speaker 1: film from a couple of years ago that was also

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Speaker 1: a love triangle based on her real life story of

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Speaker 1: growing up in Soul, having a childhood sweetheart, moving to America,

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Speaker 1: marrying an American, and then her childhood sweetheart rocks up

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of a you know, awkward kind of

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Speaker 1: situation like did she make did she make the right decision? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of a sliding doors thinks about what

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Speaker 1: might have been. And so that film was incredible, emotionally devastating.

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Speaker 1: It was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. She

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Speaker 1: was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, So two time

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Speaker 1: Oscar nominee for her first film. So Selene's Song hit

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Speaker 1: the ground running as a filmmaker, and so there was

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Speaker 1: going to be a lot of attention around what she

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Speaker 1: did next. And so people might look at materialists and

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Speaker 1: certainly at the trailer and go okay, So the director

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Speaker 1: of this Best Picture nominee has done a generic rom com.

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Speaker 1: It does kind of feel like a commercial sellout. But

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Speaker 1: the problem is it's not, and it's kind of it's

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Speaker 1: not art house either. It's in between. She wrote the

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Speaker 1: film not as you know, an attempt to do something

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Speaker 1: more mainstream. She actually wrote it while she was waiting

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Speaker 1: for Past Lives to hit the cinema, so she didn't

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Speaker 1: even know Past Lives was going to be successful when

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Speaker 1: she wrote this movie. It was also based on something

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Speaker 1: in her real life. She worked as a match maker

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Speaker 1: in New York for six months and in this film,

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Speaker 1: Dakota Johnson plays a matchmaker in New York. And you

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Speaker 1: look at the trailer and you go, this is a

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Speaker 1: classic rom com, but that there's not much calm, and

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Speaker 1: there's also not a lot of rom it's really a movie.

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Speaker 1: It's really a movie more about maths. It's mathematics. Oh yes, maths. No,

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Speaker 1: sounds weird, and it certainly doesn't sound very sexy when

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Speaker 1: you look at the poster and you've got Chris Evans

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Speaker 1: and Pedro Pascal and Dakota Johnson. Maths no, not that sexy.

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Speaker 1: But so basically, as a match maker, it really is

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Speaker 1: about a mathematical equation. You've got a weigh up variables

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Speaker 1: such as height, weight, age, income and determine a person's

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Speaker 1: worth and whether or not that's compatible with somebody else's age, weight,

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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. That's not terribly romantic,

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Speaker 1: but that's the business of matchmakers because people come to

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Speaker 1: them and they say, look, I want to find my

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Speaker 1: significant other. And the matchmaker says, okay, what are you

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Speaker 1: looking for? And they're like, I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for a guy that's six foot tall. He's got

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Speaker 1: to make more than two hundred grand a year. He's

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Speaker 1: got to be, you know, under thirty five, but over thirty.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of numbers get thrown out there and

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Speaker 1: then they start talking about, oh, well, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I want someone who's got a good sense of humor

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Speaker 1: and so on. But in this movie, it explores the

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Speaker 1: fact that, you know, people say, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: someone with a great personality that I can you know,

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Speaker 1: go to the movies with. But in reality, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes that's not actually what they're looking for, and people

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Speaker 1: are quite superficial and it's like, oh, that person's maybe

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Speaker 1: carrying a few extra pounds and that's that's a deal breaker.

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Speaker 1: And so this film is very unflinching and when it

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Speaker 1: examines those types of things. Dakota Johnson's the matchmaker, so

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Speaker 1: she's you know, very brutal in her calculations as she's

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Speaker 1: setting up these people and in her own love life.

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Speaker 1: It's a disaster really, she's kind of so's she sees

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Speaker 1: these people try and fail to find love and it's

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Speaker 1: put her right off. The whole concept can't take exactly

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Speaker 1: Council Eliza, and so then she meets then she meets

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Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal, a rich hedge fund type, like multi multi millionaire,

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Speaker 1: amazing apartment, and he's also and so the surprise surprise,

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Speaker 1: she goes, Oh, you know what I'm gonna I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get into the game. Here my mathematical matchmaking brain says,

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Speaker 1: you're a good one. You're a good match. I could,

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Speaker 1: I could farm you out to some of my clients,

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Speaker 1: but no, no, I'm going to keep you. Yes, so

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Speaker 1: she starts. She starts dating Pedro Pascal wife and everything.

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Speaker 1: Do you think, okay, Like, why is this movie? This

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Speaker 1: is the first twenty five minutes. Why do we need

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Speaker 1: to even continue anymore? This movie is over? Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: romance is done. But then of course Chris Evans, who

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Speaker 1: is her old boyfriend, struggling actor, a bit of a

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Speaker 1: no hoper, comes onto the scene, and then she's faced

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Speaker 1: with this choice. You know, Chris Evans might be the

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Speaker 1: love of my life even though he's got not a

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Speaker 1: cent to his name, and if I end up with him,

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Speaker 1: life is going to be difficult. Or do I use

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Speaker 1: my head and go and you know, use my brain

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Speaker 1: and on paper Pedro Pascal, who's perfect. The problem with

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Speaker 1: this film is it attempts to make super rich Pedro

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Speaker 1: Pascal the worst option, which makes zero sense. Like anybody

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Speaker 1: watching this movie is going like what the heck? Like

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Speaker 1: like go with Pedro exactly, And I think that is

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Speaker 1: part of the problem. Like Pedro, he's too perfect, and

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Speaker 1: their attempts to try and make him less than perfect

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Speaker 1: just just don't make sense. Find and and the and

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Speaker 1: part of that is, I guess you know, Celene script

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Speaker 1: gravitates so much towards Pedro Pascal unintentionally and intentionally that

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Speaker 1: when when Chris Evans starts to play more of a role,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense. Like you're just going like,

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Speaker 1: why would you? Because and it kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: Chris Evans's character this, you know, he's a waiter at

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Speaker 1: there's nothing about him and lives in a sharehouse that's filthy.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing about it that is actually appealing. And he

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Speaker 1: and if you talk about, oh, he's the love of

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Speaker 1: my life, like you just don't even buy that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the Dakotah Johnson of it all.

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Speaker 1: Who you know, she was in one of the worst

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Speaker 1: Fifty Shades series, And so the jury is out on

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Speaker 1: draw card in the first place. I think she's okay.

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Speaker 1: This is probably the best performance of her career. The

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Speaker 1: good thing about this film Sillin Song's direction is incredible,

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Speaker 1: like the way the camera lingers on little details to

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Speaker 1: add intimacy to a scene. It's beautiful in many many ways.

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Speaker 1: It's more art house than rom com, but it's not

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Speaker 1: art house enough to appeal to the fans of Past Lives,

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Speaker 1: and it's certainly not rom common enough to appeal to

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Speaker 1: fans of those Matthew McConnaughey rom coms like. I've had

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Speaker 1: people message me who have seen this film and have

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Speaker 1: didn't like it at all. And I totally expect that,

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Speaker 1: because you know, the trailer sells it as this lighthearted,

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Speaker 1: funny rom com romp. That's not what it is. Chris

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Speaker 1: comes in. I just wanted to get your vibe. Does

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Speaker 1: it start feeling a bit past lives at all? When

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Speaker 1: the past love comes in? My Past Lives is just

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Speaker 1: so much better. And there will be people who you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll know, people who watch this film and they will

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Speaker 1: try and convince you that it's amazing. They'll be trying

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Speaker 1: to convince themselves it's amazing because they're hoping it would be,

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Speaker 1: and they hope. It's more wishful thinking than anything else.

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Speaker 1: And you know, go watch Past Lives, all right. It's

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Speaker 1: like I tried to convince myself that The Mountain One

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Speaker 1: with interested it was good because it was terrible. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so how many know exactly Sophie's choices? Are you giving

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Speaker 1: its three? Three? It's not bad, It's like, it's not

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Speaker 1: a terrible film. Still, go and watch it, but just

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Speaker 1: don't expect it. Yeah, mid middling, so her next movie

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Speaker 1: will be critical. But definitely go watch Past Lives though,

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Speaker 1: because that is incredible. All right, thank you, thanks for

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Speaker 1: your honesty. There's always