A History Of Violence - In A Nutshell
📽️ A History of Violence - In A Nutshell 🔫💥
Seen the movie? We (mainly Darren) challenge how you see it, pointing out things you may have missed—even after countless viewings.
Haven’t seen it? We give you a quick, simple, spoiler-free breakdown to help you decide if it’s worth your time.
In this episode of Movies In A Nutshell:
✅ The Nutshell: A clear, spoiler-free summary for new viewers.
✅ Ratings & Reviews: How do critics and audiences compare—and what does that say about the film’s legacy?
✅ What Did We Miss?: Hidden layers are uncovered, challenging how you see the movie.
✅ Paul’s Facts of the Day: Fascinating trivia and behind-the-scenes insights.
✅ Takeaways: The first time in the episode Marc, Darren, and Paul share their personal thoughts after holding back opinions until now.
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Transcript
Foreign.
Speaker A:Hello, and welcome to Movies in a Nutshell with me, Marc Farquhar, myself, Darren.
Speaker B:Horne, and I, Paul Day.
Speaker A:Together, we're here to bring you quick, simple, entertaining breakdowns of movies, whether you've seen them or not.
Speaker C:From timeless classics to hidden gems or the latest blockbusters in cinemas, this is your movie safe space.
Speaker B:But unlike most movie podcasts, we're not a review show.
Speaker B:That means no endless deep dives, no unnecessary opinions, just value for your time.
Speaker A:If it's a movie you've seen, you will probably learn something new.
Speaker A:And if it's a movie you haven't seen yet, we'll help you decide if it's worth your time.
Speaker C:Don't stress if you haven't seen that, must watch classic.
Speaker C:We've got you covered with everything you need to know.
Speaker A:So grab some popcorn, settle in, and let's dive into this week's movie.
Speaker A:Okay, so let's discuss a history of violence.
Speaker A:Darren, this was your choice.
Speaker A:So we'll do the diagnostics first.
Speaker A:In this section we'll go over some stats, we'll take a look at the synopsis and we'll do three different reviews and look at the ratings.
Speaker A:So it's available to watch on Netflix.
Speaker A: It was released in: Speaker A:It was rated R.
Speaker A:The first one we've done.
Speaker A:This an R18, is it.
Speaker A:Which will.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:The one that we've done.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which we'll.
Speaker A:We'll get into as to why that is 96 minutes, which is a good running time.
Speaker A:Genre is action thriller.
Speaker A:Stars Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris and William Hurt.
Speaker A:Directed by David Cronenberg.
Speaker A:Written by.
Speaker A:Well, Josh Olsen did the screenplay.
Speaker A:It was based on a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke.
Speaker A:The music was by Howard Shaw.
Speaker A:The budget was 32 million and it took 61.4.
Speaker A:So Darren, do you have a synopsis?
Speaker C:Yeah, of course.
Speaker C:So, Tom Store is a really sweet family man that runs a cafe in a small town in.
Speaker C:In America.
Speaker C:And unfortunately, two murderous villains turn up and threaten his patrons and his staff.
Speaker C:In a moment of panic and violence, he manages to deal with them and becomes a bit of a local hero.
Speaker C:Sadly, this means his face is put all over the news and some gangsters in Philadelphia see his face and think he is somebody else and turn up to exact revenge.
Speaker A:That's good.
Speaker B:I felt really good.
Speaker B:But yeah, that's.
Speaker B:That's a good synopsis.
Speaker A:Effective.
Speaker A:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker A:The official synopsis says a mild mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence which Sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Speaker C:Actually, that's better.
Speaker C:But I don't like that.
Speaker C:Shake his family to its very core.
Speaker C:I don't like it ever.
Speaker C:When it's like, things will never be the same again.
Speaker B:It's very core.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:It's like when I see those targeted Facebook adverts where it'd be like, two people talking and they'll be like.
Speaker C:So you're telling me off immediately.
Speaker C:You're telling me that if I put on this aftershave, I'm gonna have a cur.
Speaker C:Women.
Speaker C:Get out.
Speaker C:You're telling me if I put this on my hair, it'll.
Speaker C:It won't be gray anymore?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker A:Off.
Speaker B:The one that gets me is.
Speaker B:Is where they're walking along the beach.
Speaker B:People keep asking me.
Speaker C:Oh, managed to.
Speaker B:To make all these millions go away.
Speaker A:So good synopsis.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think the official one was a bit more vague.
Speaker A:Bit too vague.
Speaker C:Oh, nice.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I thought you're gonna.
Speaker C:The official one was better, Darren.
Speaker C:Do better.
Speaker B:No, no, yours had more drama to it.
Speaker A:I know we're doing things in a nutshell here, but that was.
Speaker A:I think the official one was a bit too much in a nutshell.
Speaker A:So let's go through, like, the basics of this movie, then, and your opinion, Darren, what is this movie about?
Speaker C:I guess it's about two things.
Speaker C:The obvious one is it's about identity and who we are.
Speaker C:And that feels quite apt at the moment with a lot of stuff that's going on with technology.
Speaker C:But who are we?
Speaker C:And what's the lens that people see us in?
Speaker C:You know, we're all multiple archetypes to kind of use Carl Jung's kind of speak, you know, But I'm a parent, I'm a mentor, I'm a friend.
Speaker C:We're all these different roles.
Speaker C:So it's about identity and obviously mistaken identity, but it's also about violence.
Speaker C:It's called the History of Violence.
Speaker C:And it's interesting to me that the.
Speaker C:It was shot in Canada, but it's set in America, because America's history of violence is quite prevalent, and it still seems to be like a very violent culture.
Speaker C:So it's about.
Speaker C:Violence is about what makes a man and the relationship that particularly men have with violence and how women perceive that as well.
Speaker C:And then it's about identity.
Speaker B:I knew nothing about this film.
Speaker B:I'd heard of it, and I knew it was in it, but I knew nothing about it going in.
Speaker B:So it was an interesting one.
Speaker B:It might even be Judge me Listener judge me.
Speaker B:But I think it's the first David Cronenberg film I've actually watched as well.
Speaker B:But Small Town America and the opening bit, and this doesn't spoil anything.
Speaker B:It gave me kind of a Quentin Tarantino sort of vibe.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Quite a few of those.
Speaker C:And it's a phenomenal opening.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And that, that was what I was thinking.
Speaker B:It was like, oh, this is very Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker B:So if you're into that kind of film, I imagine this would appeal to you as well.
Speaker A:So it's basically his, his act of heroism in his local area.
Speaker A:But it was violent, it was, it was brutal.
Speaker A:But puts him on, puts him on the stage, puts him in the public eye.
Speaker B:It's a very character driven story, like Darren's saying.
Speaker A:Yeah, it is.
Speaker B:So if you're going in there expecting like guns blazing, John Wick style, you're going to be very disappointed.
Speaker C:And the fight, the violence is over very quickly.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Yeah, it is, it's.
Speaker C:It's very bloody, but it's over quickly.
Speaker B:Pivotal.
Speaker A:It's not really about that, is it?
Speaker A:No, not really about that.
Speaker B:It's pivotal kind of moments in the story, but it's not, it's more the fact.
Speaker B:Shoot them up.
Speaker A:It's more the fact that he's been put on a public stage.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which is brought.
Speaker A:It's other people to his.
Speaker A:Him to their attention as well.
Speaker A:And it's basically they show up thinking he's someone.
Speaker A:He denies it.
Speaker A:And it's all about how does he deal with that because they put the pressure on him.
Speaker A:So what happens after that?
Speaker C:It's not just that.
Speaker C:The other thing that really scared me is we get really comfortable in the little bubbles that we live in.
Speaker C:But what happens when a freaking bigger fish like Predator comes into your, your.
Speaker A:Community and they're relentless.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And it's like, I don't know how to deal with people like that.
Speaker C:That's, it's, it's terrifying.
Speaker B:That's the thriller part of it for me.
Speaker B:That was the bit that had me on the edge of the seat, like, oh, okay.
Speaker C:It's also funny.
Speaker B:In a, in a brutal way.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it's basically.
Speaker A:How does he deal with that?
Speaker A:These people are relentless.
Speaker A:They think he's someone.
Speaker A:Is he?
Speaker A:Is he not?
Speaker A:That's, that's basically the crux of the story.
Speaker A:And it wraps up.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:The mystery unfolds as the film goes along.
Speaker B:So if you like a bit of a thrilling mystery, it's kind of got that element too.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Then should we look at some ratings and reviews.
Speaker B:Let's do it.
Speaker A:Just Darren's choice or do you think this was.
Speaker A:Would have been favorably reviewed overall?
Speaker C:Overall, I know Mark Hamod loved it and he.
Speaker C:He saw it.
Speaker A:He's your.
Speaker A:He's your barometer, isn't.
Speaker C:He's my go to guy.
Speaker C:And he was in Kansas same year I was in Cannes when this was released and at the Cannes Film Festival.
Speaker C:And he thinks it should have got the Palm Door and it didn't.
Speaker C:But it's his opinion is the correct film.
Speaker C:Never gets the Palm Door.
Speaker C:He thinks it's superb.
Speaker C:I know some other people have some minor issues with it, but they're minor issues.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Sit down.
Speaker B:Yeah, sit down now.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Well, Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker A:The critics was 88, which I thought was really good.
Speaker A:And the users were 76.
Speaker A:So the critics.
Speaker C:But I wonder what the users expect.
Speaker C:Probably more violence.
Speaker A:That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker B:Did they expect more shoot them up just because of the title?
Speaker A:IMDb was 7.4.
Speaker A:Pretty strong overall.
Speaker C:Pretty strong.
Speaker B:But I'd have thought that have been higher.
Speaker A:Yeah, it could have been higher.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Metacritic, the critics was 82 out of 100 and the users were 7.5 out of 10.
Speaker C:I think they were a little on the low side.
Speaker B:I think it might be that expectation of what they were going and thinking it was to what it actually was, that's what's brought it down.
Speaker C:And also probably the ending maybe.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:We'll do our cross section of reviews.
Speaker A:So the first one.
Speaker A:Lisa Schwartzbaum of Entertainment Weekly praised the film, stating David Cronenberg's brilliant movie is without doubt one of the best of the year.
Speaker C:Excellent.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker A:Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker A:This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated or miscalculated to set up certain expectations for fulfill them and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming.
Speaker A:And at least in theory, be shocked.
Speaker C:Purely predictable.
Speaker C:Sit down.
Speaker C:Get in the bin.
Speaker B:Just.
Speaker B:That was a very long sentence.
Speaker B:Yeah, it is.
Speaker A:Well, this is what I think about review.
Speaker A:They're just people's opinions.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You shouldn't hold your hat on them.
Speaker A:Anyway, the most.
Speaker A:The most important thing you're going to say Peter Travers.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The most important person in the world right now is Peter Travers.
Speaker A:This time writing for Rolling Stone.
Speaker C:Nice.
Speaker A:He's back home now.
Speaker B:He's back home on this.
Speaker A:He's got his slippers on.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Cronenberg's direction mirroring the split in Tom.
Speaker A:And it is alternatively measured and frighteningly Explosive.
Speaker A:And as always, he gives the movie a nasty underlay of sexual perversity.
Speaker C:That's interesting.
Speaker C:See, he did that movie Crash, didn't he?
Speaker B:Oh, is that him?
Speaker C:I think so.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Where people get.
Speaker C:Did not hear by.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yes.
Speaker C:Having car crashes.
Speaker C:No, I don't.
Speaker C:I think that guy's level of perversity is what we would consider quite tame.
Speaker B:What does that say about us?
Speaker A:He watches a lot more films than we did.
Speaker A:Okay, there we go.
Speaker A:That ends that.
Speaker A:So we head into spoiler territory.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it's time.
Speaker A:We are going to head now into spoiler territory.
Speaker A:So this is your warning.
Speaker A:From here on out, we're diving into potential spoilers.
Speaker A:If you haven't seen a movie yet, you want to get, you want to go in fresh, hit, pause, go watch and come back.
Speaker A:Otherwise, let's get into the details.
Speaker A:So first of all, it's your choice, Darren.
Speaker A:So what did we miss about History of Violence?
Speaker C:We mentioned the opening scene already.
Speaker C:And this actually does something that movies like Predator and the Thing do.
Speaker C:So if you imagine that this opened with the Stall family, then we just got a guy just with his family running a cafe and sad.
Speaker C:The audiences get kind of bored quite quickly.
Speaker C:So you've got to give them a hint as to what's coming.
Speaker C:So the opening of Predator, we see the ship land on the planet and then it cuts to the, you know, the marines or the whatever they are moving through the jungle and getting hired.
Speaker C:And you, if you were waiting.
Speaker C:So basically, have you guys seen Dust till Dawn?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:Okay, so Dust till Dawn a lot of people hated because for half of the movie it's just a road kind of gangster movie.
Speaker C:And then vampires turn up out of nowhere and it was like, wait, what?
Speaker B:It is very random.
Speaker C:But so you've got to do something at the beginning to tell the audience what's going to happen.
Speaker C:So the thing I think is a spaceship that crashes again.
Speaker C:And in this, it's that beautiful opening scene, really slow, with these two guys who are very calm.
Speaker C:Nothing's bothering them.
Speaker C:They're just slowly checking out of a hotel and you know something is wrong.
Speaker C:And it's.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And it's.
Speaker C:And you know, the guy checks the payphone for change so we know they want money.
Speaker C:And then one of them goes back in to get some water, I think it is.
Speaker C:And then he walks past a bloody body and we're like, okay, this is gross.
Speaker C:And then like an eight or nine year old girl opens the door.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And you're like, oh my God, what's gonna happen.
Speaker C:Like, what.
Speaker C:What can possibly happen here?
Speaker C:And he just kneels down with a smile, just pulls out his gun and he's like, it's okay.
Speaker C:And just shoots her in the head.
Speaker B:And you're like, it definitely opens it in a shocking way.
Speaker B:What I wrote down, that was a shocking opening.
Speaker C:And what's cool is that guy who it then match cuts that kind of shot with the daughter of Tom Stall waking up from a nightmare.
Speaker C:So you've got one guy who is the killer of like 8 or 9 year olds to the next guy who is the protector of eight or nine year olds.
Speaker C:And it kind of sets it up like these two worlds are gonna collide between the literal good and the literal bad.
Speaker C:And I thought that was kind of cool.
Speaker B:And it's that thing of.
Speaker B:It's that impending doom of, oh, well, how are they gonna fit into it?
Speaker B:The first bit's kind of introducing you to the characters and you think, oh, sweet family.
Speaker B:And you're getting to know them all, but.
Speaker B:But in the background, because you've had that opening, you know they're coming.
Speaker B:And because it was so shocking, I was like, when, when's, when's that coming in?
Speaker B:When's that?
Speaker C:I think as villains, they rival that guy in no country, fraud men, like, happy about them.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:It's on my list.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's phenomenal.
Speaker C:So I thought that was great.
Speaker C:And then you get into the family, and it's an average family, 2.4 children, you know, cute loving couple.
Speaker C:You know, he tidies up the litter outside his cafe.
Speaker C:It's just all sweet.
Speaker C:But then also, did you catch the bit where the customers are talking about the fork story?
Speaker A:I don't think so.
Speaker C:Oh, actually, with the kid as well, She's.
Speaker C:She's screaming that there's monsters, and she's like, you know, there's monsters.
Speaker C:And he said, there's no monsters out there.
Speaker C:Which is kind of cool because he kind of is a monster.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:I never thought of that.
Speaker B:But now.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then you, Darren, it cuts to the fork family, the fork story.
Speaker C:And the.
Speaker C:The guy behind the counter is saying that he used to date this woman.
Speaker C:He used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking he was.
Speaker C:He was someone else.
Speaker C:And it was actually a murderous killer and stabbing him with a knife and then apologizing.
Speaker C:And he's like, my God, did you break up with her?
Speaker C:He's like, no, I know nobody's perfect, Tom.
Speaker B:But yeah, that was fun.
Speaker C:You know, if listeners haven't caught on already.
Speaker C:It turns out that Tom is this gangster guy called Joey Cusack.
Speaker C:So it's playing around with it like, like he, he.
Speaker C:That whole idea that nobody's perfect, you just accept people for how they are, is kind of sweet.
Speaker B:Vigo played it so well, though, because I.
Speaker B:Because I knew nothing of this movie.
Speaker B:I was on the edge of my seats thinking, is it like a born identity thing?
Speaker B:Is it the fact that he can't remember his past or are they mistaken?
Speaker B:So when he actually did the reveal.
Speaker A:It kept you guessing, didn't he?
Speaker A:Kept.
Speaker A:He kept me hanging on.
Speaker A:He's like, they really got the wrong guy here.
Speaker B:I wasn't.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I wasn't sure for a long time because he was playing it so straight.
Speaker C:And he gets the name.
Speaker C:He's like, I don't know who this Johnny guy is.
Speaker A:Joey so believably played that very well.
Speaker B:So when he's in, I think it's the hospital bed where he finally reveals like, yes, I thought I killed Joe years ago.
Speaker B:I was a bit freaked out.
Speaker C:It's always third person.
Speaker C:He's never like, no, no, Joey's not me.
Speaker C:And I think that's a nice theme.
Speaker C:Like, Joey isn't Tom.
Speaker C:Like, I'm not Darren of 25 years.
Speaker C:I'm not the Darren that was at uni.
Speaker C:You know, I'm not Darren that was married.
Speaker C:You know, I'm a different Darren now.
Speaker B:I still feel like I'm the same Pole, kinda.
Speaker B:Kinda.
Speaker A:Anyway.
Speaker A:But in terms of, like, you did a great job with Leave the world behind, like symbolism and things.
Speaker A:Is there anything we could have missed or that might have passed people by?
Speaker C:So there's a bit later on.
Speaker C:I think it's when the Ed Harris has turned up to take him away.
Speaker C:And it's when we see Joey appear.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And there's a lot of shots of flies on the window and there's a buzz in the flies and there's like a buzz in the flies around the car and stuff.
Speaker C:And it's could be a kind of a nod that he directed the fly, but it felt like it was more in joke.
Speaker C:It was more.
Speaker C:It felt like it was more that evil had come because, you know, there's a convention that flies symbolize like the devil coming or something like that.
Speaker A:Or they just symbolize death.
Speaker C:Symbolize death?
Speaker A:Yeah, because they're always around carcasses and.
Speaker C:And if you stick with that.
Speaker C:It's also interesting that in some scenes Joey's cross is showing and in others it isn't.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker C:And there's bits where, you know, he's being quite sweet, where we see his cross, but then it disappears when he's being quite violent.
Speaker C:But then it returns at the end.
Speaker C:And there's a lot of religious symbolism in this.
Speaker C:Like, he's, you know, he's a good, honest man.
Speaker C:And, you know, dressing up as a cheerleader is, like, quite risque.
Speaker C:It's like, oh, you're so naughty.
Speaker C:But then at the end when, you know, he kills his brother and that anytime it's brother versus brother, it's kind of Cain versus Abel.
Speaker C:It's kind of very biblical.
Speaker C:And so you've got the cross that appears and disappears throughout.
Speaker C:But then at the end, he takes off his top and gets into the lake and he's kind of washing his face and his hands in the lake, which is almost like a christening or baptism cleansing ritual.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:Like he's being reborn.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:And then also there's this massive garden.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Gazebo.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But it was just a wooden outline and it looked like a crown of thorns.
Speaker C:Like a giant crown of thorns.
Speaker C:And I was like, are they really pushing, like, the Jesus kind of metaphor.
Speaker A:Here, like, being reborn?
Speaker C:But then at the end, just before he shoots his brother, his brother says, Jesus, Joey.
Speaker C:And then.
Speaker C:And then Joey says, jesus, Richie.
Speaker C:And it's like, is he saying, like, what's he saying there?
Speaker C:So I'm not sure how deliberate it was, but there's definitely something going on with religious symbolism.
Speaker C:And then there's this other side of it, which I thought was weird, is when she.
Speaker C:When the wife has the scene in the shoe shop and realizes her daughter is missing, she has to kick off her shoes because she's going to buy.
Speaker C:So she goes out barefoot.
Speaker C:So she faces Ed Harris barefoot.
Speaker C:So I'm like, okay, why is that.
Speaker C:Is that like a John McClane, Die Hard thing where it's adding vulnerability?
Speaker C:But then later on, when Ed Harris turns up at the house, he is barefoot.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker C:So I'm like, why have we got to kind of.
Speaker C:Is it.
Speaker B:Is it vulnerability?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Or is it like the Peaceful Warrior?
Speaker C:Is it like, is it.
Speaker C:Is it.
Speaker C:They're more in touch with nature.
Speaker C:Is it?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm not sure.
Speaker C:I mean, the other side of that as well, obviously, is this is a Western.
Speaker C:Like, just imagine that Viggo Morrison is Clint Eastwood.
Speaker C:He's the gunslinger that is retired and has become a family man.
Speaker C:I think I can't even name Eastwood film that does it, because I think they all do.
Speaker A:And then somebody comes to town.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:And if the bad guy comes to town and wants pistols at dawn.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's almost like, you know, kind of.
Speaker B:Jungle takes him out.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So it's a Western, and that's.
Speaker C:That.
Speaker C:That also builds on the history of violence and the kind of.
Speaker C:The myth of the West.
Speaker C:And it's.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's kind of probably most of what I've got, I think.
Speaker B:So that bit of it, because I put a lot of it, was about intimidation.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's a really good point.
Speaker B:And the bit with the sun mirrored that intimidation with the bully.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And also the idea of parallels going.
Speaker B:Parallels going on.
Speaker B:And then the anger in the sun that he may have got from the father.
Speaker B:There was something going on with that.
Speaker C:Maybe like sins of the father.
Speaker B:Yeah, because.
Speaker B:Because obviously he had a bit of rage in him, too.
Speaker B:But his dad at the start of it all seems very placid.
Speaker B:And then obviously you find out he was also this other guy, this Joey guy.
Speaker B:But I kept thinking of.
Speaker B:But it's the sort of film that sort of escalates very quickly in scenes.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker B:And I kept thinking of the anchorman meme of.
Speaker B:Well, that escalated quickly.
Speaker C:But that's also.
Speaker C:It's almost like it gave the son permission.
Speaker C:So a lot of people talk about shadow work.
Speaker C:Have you heard this kind of online a lot?
Speaker C:And it's kind of.
Speaker C:You've got to integrate your shadow.
Speaker C:And a lot of people think that that's integrating the negative side.
Speaker C:So if you push down your aggression, it can seep out in all kind of negative ways.
Speaker C:According to psychologists, it comes a bit from Carl Jung as well.
Speaker C:But it's not just your aggression.
Speaker C:It can be anything.
Speaker C:So if.
Speaker C:If my creativity is in the shadow and I'm not expressing that, it will do kind of damage to my kind of psyche and my mental health.
Speaker C:So this is kind of a thing where violence needs to be expressed somehow, particularly, I think, with men.
Speaker C:And, you know, whether that's through playing Call of Duty or doing, like, playing rugby or something, if you don't let it out in some way.
Speaker C:And I think this is the interesting thing about Tom Store and Joey is this.
Speaker C:Like, Joey is the shadow side of Tom Store.
Speaker C:And that and John and Joey Cusack is in all of us.
Speaker C:We can't be naive about that.
Speaker C:Like, people can be weaponized against others.
Speaker C:It's how, you know, we can see elements of this happening in America.
Speaker C:It just takes a little bit of fear, a little bit of prodding, a little bit of poverty before we turn on one another.
Speaker C:And we can be, you know, really horrendous, like, to the extreme of Nazism or even what's going on in Gaza.
Speaker C:Like, it doesn't take much to dehumanize another person to you, sadly.
Speaker C:So there's that shadow side of violence with Joey and Tom, but it's also the shadow side of sex.
Speaker C:Like, the cheerleader scene is really, really sweet.
Speaker C:And they finish with 69, which I haven't seen on TV for a while.
Speaker C:That's really cool.
Speaker C:But then when Joey is out and they have sex again, it's borderline sexual assault.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Very different.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's very different.
Speaker C:And I think she's also allowing that to happen because either she wants to express her shadow side and.
Speaker C:Or she's trying to reclaim her relationship with this man.
Speaker A:Some kind of control.
Speaker C:She's like, you know, I.
Speaker C:I've got Tom.
Speaker C:I need to get Joey as well.
Speaker B:Maybe the second one's a really tricky scene to watch, isn't it?
Speaker C:It is.
Speaker B:It's quite uncomfortable on purpose.
Speaker C:And later on when you see the bruises on her back.
Speaker C:But then now she's like, joey's got scars.
Speaker C:It feels like Thomas had, like.
Speaker C:I think we talked about this.
Speaker C:I don't know what episode it was about.
Speaker C:About, you know, kind of getting scars and it's the only way to go.
Speaker C:I think it was wicked.
Speaker C:I think we were talking about it and Tom maybe just had a really innocent, sweet life and maybe his wife had as well.
Speaker C:But in order to.
Speaker C:It's almost like getting experience points in a way.
Speaker C:Anyway.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker C:So good.
Speaker B:This is a nice town with nice people, and we take care of our nice people.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Oh, that.
Speaker B:Yeah, sheriff guy.
Speaker C:And that's another thing that Ed Harris laughs.
Speaker C:She's, you know, I'm going to call the police.
Speaker C:He's, yeah, okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then she's like, I've got a restraining order.
Speaker C:And you're like, this is like the Terminator.
Speaker C:Like, these people cannot be stopped.
Speaker C:You're out of your depth.
Speaker C:This is terrifying.
Speaker A:So have you any facts, Paul, before we move on?
Speaker B:Lots of facts.
Speaker B:Lots of facts.
Speaker A:Facts of the day.
Speaker A:It's officially facts of the day.
Speaker B:Facts of the day.
Speaker B:I know, it is catchy.
Speaker B:William Hurt received an Oscar nomination for the film for Best Supporting Actor despite only being in one scene which lasted for less than 10.
Speaker C:And he eats a scenery up.
Speaker C:Phenomenal.
Speaker B:Yeah, he really does.
Speaker B:So I guess he didn't win the Oscar because it just says nomination, but that's a shame.
Speaker B:During an interview Viggo stated that during the shooting of the first bar scene with Ed Harris, he could not stop laughing.
Speaker B:And as a result, the scene had to be reshot several times due to VGO's behavior.
Speaker B:Ed completed the scene without pants.
Speaker B:He only wore his underwear.
Speaker B:Yet this cannot be seen at the bar as the table impedes our view.
Speaker B:Thus, Viggo had to act seriously while Ed Harris was not wearing any pants.
Speaker B:And this is the scene that is used in the movie.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:Like that.
Speaker B:Who'd have thought?
Speaker B:Original casting.
Speaker B:I saw this before.
Speaker B:So Thomas Jane and Harrison Ford turned down the role of Thomas Stahl.
Speaker C:I don't think Harrison.
Speaker C:Oh, maybe he could have.
Speaker A:I think Howson.
Speaker C:I think he could have done like a fugitive type approach.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Viggo did such a good job though.
Speaker B:Hard to imagine anyone else, isn't it?
Speaker B:In that role.
Speaker B:Now, around 23 minutes in, during the robbery scene at the diner, Orzer crudely rubbing his hand down Charlotte's breast and then sniffing his hand was thought up by the two actors themselves.
Speaker C:Oh, that's good.
Speaker C:I always worry.
Speaker C:Don't always.
Speaker C:But I.
Speaker C:I just always hope that it's why we have intimacy coordinations now.
Speaker C:I always hope that they.
Speaker C:The both parties are okay with what's going on, you know, and she was such a sweet.
Speaker C:Her character was so sweet and kind of innocent.
Speaker B:And Viggo's praised this film as one of the best movies he's ever been in, if not the best.
Speaker B:Also declaring it was a perfect film noir or close to perfect.
Speaker B:He quotes.
Speaker C:Okay, so just to go on a tangent, can we just talk about how good Viggo Mortensen is?
Speaker C:Like we only know this guy's name because of Aragon.
Speaker C:If we didn't know who Aragorn was, we wouldn't have put together that this guy is in all these movies.
Speaker C:There's no way I would have put together this guy as the same guy who's in Eastern Promises to the same guy who's in the Green Book.
Speaker C:Get out of here.
Speaker C:Like he.
Speaker A:I've never seen any of those, so that means nothing to me.
Speaker C:He disappears into these roles and even this at that moment, like he's.
Speaker C:The way he speaks changes at some point.
Speaker C:I can't remember what he says.
Speaker C:I think he says, go back to the house, Jack.
Speaker C:Whereas before that he's like, you know.
Speaker A:He would never have spoken like that, would he?
Speaker C:No, not at all.
Speaker C:He's a tone.
Speaker A:It's a tone, it's a shift.
Speaker C:It's a tone.
Speaker C:It's the language he's using.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then that little.
Speaker C:And it's like he gets his dead kind of shark eyes and you think, oh, okay, it is him.
Speaker C:Phenomenal.
Speaker B: of links in with Viggo, in a: Speaker B:It was 120 odd pages of just mayhem.
Speaker B:Kind of senseless, really.
Speaker B:That's his quote.
Speaker B:But he only agreed to do the movie after meeting with the director, David Cronenberg, who, according to Viggo, he reworked the script.
Speaker B:So it sounds like David Cronenberg had a big part in getting Viggo involved.
Speaker B:Doing it.
Speaker C:Based on a graphic novel, isn't it?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Based on a graphic novel as well.
Speaker B:David Cronenberg described the film as a meditation on the human body and its relationship to violence.
Speaker C:I think that's super.
Speaker B:I thought you'd like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Another cool fact.
Speaker B:Go for it.
Speaker C:I saw this in a YouTube comment and had to go check, and I think it's true.
Speaker C:This may have been the last movie that was released on vhs.
Speaker B:Oh, I just saw that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, that was another.
Speaker A:Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:That's weird.
Speaker C:Is.
Speaker C: It was: Speaker C:Yeah, but maybe.
Speaker A:Yes, true.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Because it's weird.
Speaker C:Like, sometimes I get patronized with my students.
Speaker C:I bet.
Speaker C:Well, the VHS was just there.
Speaker C:Yeah, we know what a VHS is, because I think VHS is stopped in the 90s, but obviously they didn't.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think it was 99 was the year when the.
Speaker A:The main shift happened, because I remember going to, like, stores when I used to have DVDs and VHS.
Speaker A:And DVDs used to be on the end of all the aisles.
Speaker A:And then you go in, like, a year later, the VHS were on the end of the aisles and it was all DVDs.
Speaker A:That happened very quickly.
Speaker C:There's some good quotes in this.
Speaker C:Do you want to do that now?
Speaker A:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker A:Do some quotes.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:I mean, it is William Hurt, obviously.
Speaker C:I mean, I love the bit.
Speaker C:I mean, he's got so many.
Speaker C:He's got.
Speaker C:You know, when you dream and you're still a Joey, it's got the.
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker C:How did you put that off?
Speaker B:That's the one I wrote down.
Speaker B:That was my favorite.
Speaker B:But it was his delivery of it as well.
Speaker C:And this look of disbelief.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:But then he also said, when Mum brought you home from the hospital, I tried to strangle in your crib.
Speaker C:I guess all kids do that.
Speaker C:That was amazing.
Speaker B:I said, coffee.
Speaker B:That one scared me.
Speaker B:That doesn't do justice to how scared I was when I heard that one.
Speaker C:When the sheriff says, these are the real thing, the bad men, and he says it with such softness but such conviction.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Sincerity.
Speaker C:And it's what.
Speaker C:That's what I was talking about earlier, that.
Speaker C:What do we do when the bad men turns.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Scary.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, when those guys show up, you just.
Speaker A:You just get a sense because of the way they're portrayed.
Speaker A:Like, you always feel sorry for the characters.
Speaker A:You're like, shit, this is bad.
Speaker C:Yeah, this is really bad.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:The other thing I liked about the bad men, the.
Speaker C:The bullies see the sun now.
Speaker C:Like, isn't that Stool kid?
Speaker C:Like, should we go beat him up?
Speaker C:Yeah, I was just going to do it.
Speaker C:Then they drive into the road and come across the two original kind of gangsters.
Speaker C:And they just stare at him and it gives him the finger and then slowly lowers it.
Speaker C:And I like that.
Speaker C:It was.
Speaker B:That all about.
Speaker C:It was like they were in an ocean.
Speaker C:Ocean.
Speaker C:And there's a pecking order like, yeah, they can beat up Tom Stool's son, but these guys will kill you and skin you and you would not be in a good place.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:We'll police until someone bullies us.
Speaker A:We'll move on to takeaways.
Speaker A:We'll give some of our opinions of what we took from the movie.
Speaker A:I think I'll go first.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it did keep me guessing the whole way.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was very well portrayed.
Speaker A:There was.
Speaker A:I was like, is he who they think he is?
Speaker B:I was the same as you.
Speaker A:I was like.
Speaker A:There was moments where I go, oh, maybe he is.
Speaker A:Oh, maybe he's not.
Speaker A:And it was.
Speaker A:I think it was the moment he was in the car and he was outside the car when they came to his house.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And he just turned to violence.
Speaker A:And I was like, oh, is him.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:So he's been put in a pretty good act.
Speaker A:Until this point.
Speaker B:I kept thinking it was like a born identity thing where he lost his memory.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:That kind of thing.
Speaker A:That would have made sense as well.
Speaker B:There's a film called the number 23 with Jim Carrey, and that's kind of him remembering his past.
Speaker B:So it reminded me of it, that.
Speaker A:It made me think, can anyone truly change?
Speaker A:Character wise?
Speaker A:Can you?
Speaker A:Or are you just suppressing what you.
Speaker A:Who you were?
Speaker A:Can you really change?
Speaker A:Because he's the epitome of suppose from the outside of someone who's changed.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:But then he flick off a switch, he's back to that person.
Speaker A:So did he.
Speaker A:Has he.
Speaker A:Is he a changed person?
Speaker A:Can anybody truly change?
Speaker A:Or are you just suppressing instincts and feelings?
Speaker A:Have I stumped you all there?
Speaker B:Are you who you are?
Speaker B:I think who you become?
Speaker C:I'm curious.
Speaker C:I'm curious about it because I've had, you know, I've had quite a lot of therapy and things.
Speaker C:But then I wonder if that's.
Speaker C:I wonder what your default setting is.
Speaker C:Like, are we.
Speaker C:Are we born violent?
Speaker A:Can you re.
Speaker A:Can you be reset to your default totally?
Speaker C:Like, is he violent because is it.
Speaker C:Is it nature or nurture?
Speaker C:You know, is he violent because of life, the environment he was brought up in, or is he.
Speaker C:Was he born violent?
Speaker A:To be fair, in this situation, his hand was forced.
Speaker A:He had to be.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker A:It was fight or flight.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And all of us would try to do that in that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And hopefully we'll try anyway.
Speaker A:Instincts, you think, with some in some form would kick in should that trigger.
Speaker B:Point not have happened in the cafe, Maybe he'd have been fine.
Speaker B:Maybe he did not gone back to his history of violence.
Speaker A:Maybe.
Speaker A:Anyone else got anything else?
Speaker C:I think just what I've said, it's.
Speaker C:It's kind of.
Speaker C:There's always a.
Speaker C:There's always a bigger fish and the level of fear I have with that.
Speaker C:And also what.
Speaker C:What are we willing to do to defend our families and our loved ones or even a stranger?
Speaker A:I would hope to some degree.
Speaker C:Yeah, I.
Speaker C:Yeah, I hope we'd.
Speaker C:We'd.
Speaker C:I hope I would help anyone I saw in trouble.
Speaker C:But it's hard to know because how many stories do we hear where someone's being like, attacked in the street and everyone just stands around?
Speaker A:Nobody just film, film, film in there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So how about you get involved?
Speaker C:And I think that's a numbers thing.
Speaker C:It's like, even if it's like three versus one with you jumping, it's three versus two.
Speaker C:So maybe the next person will get in, then it's even then the next person.
Speaker C:The odds are in our side, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I think that was it.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And also this idea of what does our past matter?
Speaker C:Like in this case, you know, he happens to have a violent past.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:And he's, he's, you know, shown remorse for that and he's put it behind him.
Speaker C:And I think this now, at my age, when I'm dating, it's like, well, does a Woman's like, body count bother me.
Speaker C:Like, I'm at the point where I don't even ask, like, what's that got to do with me?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, and what has anything got to do with me that happened in the past?
Speaker C:So I think I'm a big believer in we can change and we do become different people or at least different stages of our life.
Speaker A:I think we do different versions of ourselves.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:One thing that is a little thing that bugged me is it's the uglification of the bad guy.
Speaker C:So it house has got a scar and it's important to the plot, but at the same time, it's like, if there's any kids out there who happen to have, you know, a disfiguration or a birthmark or whatever, it's again, code in that.
Speaker A:Associating with bad.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Which is a bit of a shame.
Speaker B:But he brings a lot of gravity, doesn't he?
Speaker B:Whenever he's in a role, whether it's the rock or well driven show, whatever film I've ever seen, Ed Harrison, he always brings the base.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:He always brings that gravitas with him.
Speaker B:And he did the same.
Speaker B:So when he turned up in the calf, I'm like, oh, but, yeah, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker A:Yeah, I did too.
Speaker B:And I would watch it again.
Speaker A:Thanks for recommending it, Darren.
Speaker C:No worries.
Speaker A:I enjoyed it.
Speaker A:I'm glad I've got it now in my repertoire now.
Speaker A:So last part of this section is Test of Time.
Speaker A:If it was a movie that is released today, we would summarize what would happen if it was released 25 years ago.
Speaker A:If it was at least 25 years ago, what would happen?
Speaker A:It released today.
Speaker A: So this was: Speaker B:Don't say it.
Speaker B:Don't say it.
Speaker B:Surely that can be 20 years ago.
Speaker A:What do you think?
Speaker A:How would this go down if it was coming out around now?
Speaker C:I think it's fine.
Speaker C:I think it would totally hold up.
Speaker C:I think the.
Speaker C:I think, if anything, these themes are more relevant now than ever, particularly in this country as well, but particularly in what's going on in America.
Speaker C:I think, you know, whenever we look at films, we sometimes look at diversity, and there's not a great deal of diversity in this film, but that's okay.
Speaker C:You know, it's a small town in America.
Speaker C:I wonder if they would force that.
Speaker C:I think.
Speaker C:Didn't.
Speaker C:Didn't Sonic just get refused an Oscar because there wasn't enough diversity or something?
Speaker B:Oh, really?
Speaker A:Is that true?
Speaker C:One of my students told Me that so possibly.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So who knows?
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker C:So there is, there is a bigger push in Hollywood to have more diversity.
Speaker C:I think someone at the Oscars said, oh, and now with the nomination of our all male directors, it's always mentioned now, isn't it?
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:But I don't think diversity at the same time should be forced.
Speaker A:So the only thing I thought about this is the pacing of it is a bit slow for today for like today's audiences are a bit accustomed to it potentially.
Speaker A:But I like it.
Speaker A:I prefer that.
Speaker A:But I'm just saying general.
Speaker B:Maybe that's why, like when we were talking about the reviews at the start, maybe that's why it did get.
Speaker A:Maybe from the.
Speaker A:Maybe there's a more recent reviews because.
Speaker B: Even in: Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:But at the same time it's kind of, it's not an art house film, but it kind of is.
Speaker C:It's not a blockbuster film, you know, it's not Michael Bay, it's David Cronenberg.
Speaker C:And that's, you know, if his films do well, they're kind of an anomaly.
Speaker C:Like I don't think anyone expected the Fly to do as well as it did.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And with the budget it's got.
Speaker C:But I think it's.
Speaker C:I think it's nice to have directors like this making movies that probably made maybe a lot more money in Europe because of that slower pace, maybe, who knows?
Speaker B:And the small town America vibe.
Speaker B:It Technology doesn't really like we look at the net and some of the other things we've looked at.
Speaker B:Technology is a big part of the story, whereas this it isn't.
Speaker B:So that's why it's not as dated.
Speaker B: s and pads and things because: Speaker B: omeone on this old phone from: Speaker C: couldn't make it like that in: Speaker C: Set in: Speaker C:They'd have been, hey, that's that guy there and this is it.
Speaker B:It wouldn't just be the major news crew, it would be on social media.
Speaker A:And they would have had to come and see him.
Speaker A:They'd just gone, that's him.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Cyber digging go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's definitely him.
Speaker A:Let's go and kill him.
Speaker C:And he would have just.
Speaker C:And he wouldn't have walked into the cafe.
Speaker C:They would just go to his house, stealing from the house because they know where he lives.
Speaker B:They just looked on his Facebook and be like, hang on, he's changed his.
Speaker A:Name at this restaurant.
Speaker A:Let's go blow the restaurant up.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, that's the only thing.
Speaker B:But other than that, it would hold up.
Speaker B:I think it would definitely hold up in terms of as a film.
Speaker B:And as Darren says, it is quite an out of house film.
Speaker B:So it would have its audience in that sort of David Cronenberg fan.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Of that.
Speaker A:So I wonder if that's going to be like the next.
Speaker A:You know, they always do reboots, but like.
Speaker A:Well, they just picked up picking cult films that did quite well and just let's redo it 30, 40 years later.
Speaker C:Yeah, they're doing that.
Speaker B:Yeah, I hope they do it.
Speaker B:But do what we've just suggested with the Facebook thing, like, he's changed his.
Speaker A:Name is you do it for franchises, though, like well established films that redo it.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:There seems to be that, like.
Speaker B:Yeah, but they're out of ideas.
Speaker A:Yeah, they do go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:That was a beautiful way to end that part of the podcast.
Speaker A:So we move on to Worth a Watch, which is basically our chance to give you a home suggestion of something which has caught our eye.
Speaker A:Darren, this episode is your movie choice, so it's also your worth a watch.
Speaker A:What have you got for us?
Speaker C:And it tends to be tv.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Have we always done tv?
Speaker C:It has been.
Speaker A:It has been mostly.
Speaker A:It doesn't have to be.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, it's not so much a worth to watch is what I'm watching right now.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:Okay, that's on Disney and it's called High Potential.
Speaker C:And what reason it caught my eye is it's got D from Always Sunny in Philadelphia in it.
Speaker C:And who I think is a great actress and I don't think she gets enough opportunity.
Speaker C:I've seen her in a few other things, but I tend to think, what's Dee doing in this?
Speaker C:Because she's so good as Dee and in this, I mean, she's still got that sassiness of D, but it feels like a genuine different character.
Speaker C:So she plays a single mom cleaner, but she's also got basically really high intellect.
Speaker C:So what you've got to think of is imagine a white female single mom cleaner that is basically Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker C:And so she then becomes.
Speaker B:I'm on board.
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:So the opening is she's cleaning the police department and singing and listening to music.
Speaker C:Her bum knocks over a case file and it goes everywhere.
Speaker C:And she's like, oh, but she can't.
Speaker C:Her brain is soaking in everything that she can't sleep if there's like a puzzle that's not solved.
Speaker C:So she basically solves it and writes on the board, who did it?
Speaker C:So the police are like, who's messing with my board?
Speaker C:And pull her in.
Speaker C:And then she's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker C:You guys are idiots.
Speaker C:She did it.
Speaker C:Like, why?
Speaker C:And she's oh, if you note the curtains here and this here and the lipstick here, and they're like, okay, well, we'll look into that.
Speaker C:And then they realize she's right.
Speaker C:And I'm three episodes in.
Speaker C:She's really funny.
Speaker C:It's kind of a little bit fish out of water because, you know, the detectives don't want to put up with her.
Speaker C:But she keeps getting it right.
Speaker C:And she's quite.
Speaker C:At one point, you know, they're looking at the victim and she's like, okay, so here's a Vic.
Speaker C:Do you mind if we're calling Vic?
Speaker C:It's going to happen anyway.
Speaker C:It's on Disney.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker C:It's like 45 minutes.
Speaker C:Every episode is going to be very similar.
Speaker C:Like the equivalent of like an episode of Lucifer or, you know, old Supernatural, whatever.
Speaker C:But it's.
Speaker C:It's sweet and it's fun and it's been a nice thing to watch when I get from work.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:High potential.
Speaker C:That's high potential.
Speaker A:There we go.
Speaker A:That is our worth a watch.
Speaker A:I am going to check that out.
Speaker A:Okay, before we reveal next episode's movie, I'm just going to mention.
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Speaker A:Next week's choice is Run to Paul.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:My goal, I believe.
Speaker A:How much thought have you put into this?
Speaker B:Oh, a lot.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Because I'm always scared that you're going to just rip whatever I come up with to pieces.
Speaker B:Pieces.
Speaker B:But I'm going to throw in because we haven't really done one yet.
Speaker B:A romantic comedy of sorts.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:You know, we need to have all the.
Speaker B:All the different things.
Speaker C:You chose a net, didn't you?
Speaker C:As you.
Speaker A:I chose the net.
Speaker C:Okay, cool.
Speaker B:My first official pick, Darren.
Speaker C:Oh, nice.
Speaker B:I'm very excited.
Speaker B:So I'm going rom com, but it's rom com with a difference.
Speaker B:It's a film called Palm Springs, which is on Amazon Prime.
Speaker C:I have not seen that.
Speaker C:I've never heard of the guy from Brooklyn.
Speaker C:Nine.
Speaker C:Nine.
Speaker B:That's the Manberg.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So it's Andy Samberg.
Speaker B:It's Christine Miliotti, who I love, who's the mother in How I Met yout Mother.
Speaker B:And she's also just recently had some Emmy nods for her work in the Penguins series.
Speaker A:I've never heard of this film, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, look forward to it.
Speaker B:And it's also got J.K.
Speaker B:simmons, so.
Speaker C:Excellent.
Speaker B:Always good to have.
Speaker C:Should have opened with that.
Speaker B:I should have opened with that.
Speaker B:I do love this film.
Speaker B: It's from about: Speaker B:Came out in lockdown, I think, and it premiered on Hulu, so it was kind of a lockdown film.
Speaker B:But for me, it's one I still watch quite regularly because I just find it.
Speaker C:You're quite a sweetheart, right?
Speaker B:Me?
Speaker B:Yeah, I am.
Speaker A:This sounds like a movie that, like, reflects his personality.
Speaker C:Does.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:A rom com.
Speaker A:He's a rom com.
Speaker B:Be a nice contrast, you know, makes things polar opposites.
Speaker B:Mix things up for the audience out there.
Speaker B:But actually, I do love this film, so I'm going to throw that one at you.
Speaker B:And I think it's still available on Amazon Prime.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:Palm Springs is next week's episode.
Speaker A:Okay, thanks for listening, guys.
Speaker A:We'll look forward to hearing from you guys next week.
Speaker A:So let us know if you like any of the movies that we have broken down so far.
Speaker A:What do you think if you send us some.
Speaker A:Some stories.
Speaker A:Also, has anyone got any stories related to movies?
Speaker A:I'll pull you guys up on this as well.
Speaker A:Like, if you ever.
Speaker A:If it comes up like a story that's happened to you while you're watching a film or around a film or reminds you of a film or anything like that.
Speaker A:Okay, have a think.
Speaker A:But, yeah, you guys listening at home, if you've got any stories related to movies, I've got a movie that I'm going to pick when it eventually picks.
Speaker A:I've got a really good story, but I'm not going to say it until that movie.
Speaker A:We get to that movie.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So they'll have to keep listening.
Speaker A:They will.
Speaker A:They will.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
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Speaker A:Until next time.
Speaker A:This is Mark saying goodbye.
Speaker C:It's Darren saying bye for now.
Speaker B:Hey, good looking.
