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Sept. 25, 2026

Cutting Deep into Horror | The Cell (2000): Ending Explained & Serial Killer Nightmares

Cutting Deep into Horror | The Cell (2000): Ending Explained & Serial Killer Nightmares

The Cell (2000) sends Jennifer Lopez into a serial killer's mind while his next victim fights to survive. Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi unpack Tarsem Singh's surreal psychological horror, Vincent D'Onofrio's nightmare imagery and the ending's troubling questions about mercy and control. Explore water symbolism, childhood trauma and seven ways to interpret the title. Is Catherine a savior—or another kind of captor? A spoiler-filled horror movie review for your Halloween watchlist.

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All right, and right through here, you'll see the chocolate fountain. Although,

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unlike most chocolate fountains, the fountain is made of chocolate,

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and it just, well, it uses regular water. It's a

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fountain made of chocolate, not a fountain that dispenses chocolate.

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Okay, so, yeah, that's pretty impressive.

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I would say so.

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It's really big.

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Well, yes, you see, when you're inside the mind of

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a murderer... Space doesn't really have an issue, per se.

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Can we back up?

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Sure, you wanted to get a better look at the fountain?

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No, no, no, to what you just said. Where are we?

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Inside the mind of a murderer. Do you not remember

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the whole rundown where we were laying on those floating

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table thingies?

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Oh, I thought that was a dream.

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No, this would be more close to a dream, actually.

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Oh, God, what's that over there?

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Oh, that is... Yeah, that is a very large box

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of Captain Crunch. Incredibly large.

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I know, I mean, like, right beside it.

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The toilet?

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The thing with the oozing and the blood and the viscera.

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You know, this type of psychology is a little bit

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of a soft science, but I'm starting to think that

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maybe you're seeing kind of what you want to see. Because...

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I see the box of Captain Crunch. I see the toilet,

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but it's not even a functional toilet. It's a Banksy.

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It has painting on it and it's gold. I don't

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know what you're looking for.

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Yeah, those are both right there. But then like right

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in front of them is like a big, is it

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a body or?

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It is the body of work of a famous poet.

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Oh man, Francisco. I can never remember his name. I apologize.

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I should have prepared better. I'm supposed to show you around.

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If you want to see all the violence and stuff,

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it's right through that door in the front of the

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house over there. It's very well appointed. It even says,

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welcome to hack.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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Okay. No, I think I want to stay here with

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the giant.

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Fountain that is chocolate.

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Obviously, you wanted to see the hell that is inside

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of his mind. So right through this door. Keep going.

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Don't trip on your shoelaces. He should have wore Velcro.

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They should have told you that before you entered.

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This podcast is about why horror scares us. What deep, dark, secret,

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scary cinema shines a light on. The discussions are frank

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and involve conversations about abuse, trauma, and mental health. There

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are also spoilers, so keep that in mind too. Now,

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sharpen your machetes and straight razors, because this is Cutting

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Deep Into Horror.

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Hello, my spookies, and welcome back to Cutting Deep into Horror.

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I am your host, Enrique Couto, of course, here with

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my co-host, Rachel Rodolphe. Rachel, how are you?

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I'm doing good.

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Good.

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Yeah.

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Is it because you didn't turn 40?

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That's part of it.

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I turned 40 like a week ago or whatever, two

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weeks ago when this airs.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, of course, immediately I need readers.

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Yeah, it was like 10 days later.

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No, it was literally seven days later. Oh, it was

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literally seven days later. My birthday was Thursday and then

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it was the next Thursday. I'm like, I'm not going

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to put off getting my eye exam again because I'm

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already blind as a bat anyway. But yeah, guy didn't

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even warn me. Just hands me the prescription, says a

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few things about contact lenses and then it's like, see ya.

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And then I go home and I'm like putting it

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in my prescription to order some glasses. And I'm like,

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what is this add one thing? Per eye? Oh, no. Wait,

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what is multifocal? Like bifocals? And then ChatGPT explained that

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I am indeed old. So, you know, just a good

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punch in the lungs, you know, after feeling pretty all

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right otherwise.

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Well, you got to keep up the theme, you know.

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Well, oh, thanks. The theme of entropy?

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Is that what you're going to say? Gotcha. No, yeah,

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it was, you know, an amusingly painful thing. But speaking

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of amusingly painful, our film tonight is The Cell from 2000.

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And it's a film that I feel like I wouldn't

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call it underrated. I feel like anybody who watched The

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Cell is a fan of it. Yeah, that's that's my

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my understanding. The last time I saw before we watched

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it for the show, the last time I saw the

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cell was I was randomly at the cigar lounge and

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it was just on the TV. This was early days

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of the cigar lounge when they had one big TV

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in the one area. And then the loungy area has

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a bunch of TVs. But they were just watching the cell.

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I was like, oh, man, is this the cell? And

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they were like, yeah. I was like, oh, well, then

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I'm going to watch the last half of the cell.

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This is sad. But it is very much a product

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of its time, but in a charming way. I mean,

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in part, just the cast alone. I mean, because it

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stars Jennifer Lopez in one of her most serious roles,

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because she's dealing with a serial killer. Then you got

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Vince Vaughn, who is kind of at the height of

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his Vince Vaughn-ness as well. Yeah. I like Vince Vaughn.

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I don't know about you, but I always liked him.

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And then we have, speaking of at their most... Lopez

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and Vaughn. But then at their least, what he's like

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at all is Vincent D'Onofrio, who is like a completely

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different person than he's been in nearly any other movie.

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He's completely transformed into this psycho and he's played a

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lot of scary, intense people before, but he's really on

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another plane.

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Oh yeah.

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On this one. You probably don't even know what you

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know him from. I, I have to admit that I don't.

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I don't know what I know him from.

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He was Edgar the Bug in Men in Black.

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That is it.

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Yep.

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That's the big one. I mean, he was Leonard Gomer

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Pyle Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket, which was what made

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him famous in 87 because he played the most tragic

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character in Full Metal Jacket. But he's an incredible actor.

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He's been in so many films. I mean, he was

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in Jurassic World. Uh, gosh, uh, he's done a lot

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of films, um, massive, massive acting career. So, but, uh,

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in this film, he, you barely even recognize him. He's

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so lost in the character of a psycho sexual serial

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killer who is extremely layered before you even get into

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his brain. Um, for those who don't know, the cell

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is basically a horror film about a serial killer who,

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Who kills women in very, very brutal ways, but he

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does it in a weird contained way. He likes to

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lock them in a cell. And I know what you're thinking. Oh,

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so that's the cell. There are a lot of cells. Yeah.

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That's one of my favorite things about the movie is

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that the cell is many things. Figurative, literal, figurative again.

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It keeps jumping around. So he ends up in a coma.

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During apprehension, it turns out he had some kind of

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very rare ailment that's triggered by water, I think it was.

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And so he goes into a coma. They find him

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and he was like, I think he would have drowned

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in the bathtub if they hadn't found him right when

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they did. But because of his weird separation from killing,

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the way he kills is he sets up an automated

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thing that drowns these women in a tank and he

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films it while he's not there. And then he comes back.

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He has this weird separation so that it's almost like

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he didn't do it, except that he absolutely did. But

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because of that, they have maybe 48 hours to figure

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out where the hell this woman is and save her

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life before she dies. So they go to Jennifer Lopez's character,

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who is an experimental neurologist, psychiatrist person who has been

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experimenting with these methods of going inside of minds of

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coma patients. Right. But the problem is. That the minds

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they've been going into are like a little boy who's

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in a coma, not, not a serial killer, let alone

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a grownup. That was, I think they even mentioned that. Like,

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it's not even just that he's a serial killer. He's

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also an adult, which means he's just going to be

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far more intricate mentally. Yeah. Cause when, when they see

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at the beginning, we see her going into this little

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boy's consciousness.

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It's relatively simple because he's a little boy.

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Yeah.

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And she's just trying to, you know, communicate with him.

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I think that they theorize that maybe it's a way

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to bring them out of the coma eventually. Maybe they

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could get there. Right. Eventually. That it's possible.

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Yeah, because I believe what it is, and they kind

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of go into it as the movie progresses, but the

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idea is that the therapist will go into the child's

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mind first, and then once they build a rapport, then

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eventually they can bring the child into the therapist's therapist's

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mind and then help them like break out.

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I think that was the reveal at the end of

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the movie was that they realized it was better to

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do that yeah it was better to bring the child

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or to bring the person into the therapist's mind than

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to go into their mind which makes sense because uh

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one of the elements of this film that i've always

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felt was really important um and is kind of complicated

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is uh the idea of therapy being a kind of

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psychological um like not violation but like a like a Yeah.

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Like the idea that what therapists do is they go

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into your brain and they rearrange the furniture. And how

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much can you even consent to that? And that is

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a nuanced take because obviously therapy works for millions of people.

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And there are some people who are going to have

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bad experiences with therapists, whether it's because the therapist was

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a bad fit or the therapist was legitimately bad. Usually

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the latter is not common. Yeah. It's more the former.

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It's just like, yeah, we didn't mesh very well. But this,

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I feel like, really kind of dives into the idea

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of what it's like when a therapist kind of goes

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into your mind metaphorically and starts digging things up. Yes.

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And how it's like, you don't have permission for that.

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So I almost felt like the concept that it might

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be more effective to go into the therapist's mind might

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have been a suggestion that less invasive methods are better

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or something. But I'm still kind of thinking about it.

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It's a complex movie and it's... it's famous for being

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extremely surreal.

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Yeah.

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Obviously once they go into their minds, it gets very,

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very out there. Um, and I thought I had it up.

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I was going to say where you can watch it. Uh,

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let's see. Cell phone 2000. So if you want to

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watch the cell before we really spoil it all, um,

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it is available. Yeah. It's basically just available to rent

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or buy digitally. So, uh, or on like, you know,

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physical media, if you're, if you're freaky like that, Unlike

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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play, Apple TV, and Fandango. And

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I will say, if you've never seen this film, it's

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totally worth a rental fee to not only see a

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really interesting movie that is scary and upsetting and intense,

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but also to really see one of the big markers

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of 2000s horror. Because after Scream comes out in the

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late 90s, every movie, nearly every movie changed. And a

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lot of people, well, it's incredible because it's a testament

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to Wes Craven. It's a testament to the work they

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were doing. It's a testament to the way the audiences

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felt about movies at the time. Some people feel like

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it kind of derailed an interesting era of horror movies.

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Because if you watch pre-96 horror, it's not at all

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what came after it. It's not a lot of meta...

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horror it's not a lot of self-referential horror self-aware horror

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i mean there's a little bit yeah but there's a

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lot more they were experimenting with monsters a lot uh

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you know there was deep rising mimic i think that

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came out that early um and it didn't derail them

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wholly it's just that a lot of them got overlooked

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entirely because what became hot was this meta slasher cast

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the you know all the cast of characters are young

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people from like dawson's creek basically and which I mean,

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literally spawned. I know what you did last summer and

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more screen movies as well. And then more, I know

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you did last summer movies. So it's interesting that like

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a movie like the cell was really doing something more original.

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Um, very, I don't know if the filmmaker was directly

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inspired by hell raiser, but it has a very hell

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raiser vibe. Absolutely. Which I, I, which I think works

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well for it. And while it was not a flop,

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it was not a huge hit. It was a hit.

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By the standards of 2000, it cost about $ 33 million

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to make, and it made about $ 104. 1 million at the

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box office. This would be an era when cable, pay cable,

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and VHS DVD sales were very, very rich. So I'm

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sure it made money. It made real money. But it wasn't,

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it didn't take the world by storm and cause an

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entire era of like, super cerebral horror films to kind

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of grip the country like Scream did. Or, you know,

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Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th or Texas

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Chainsaw Massacre or whatever. It wasn't one of those. If

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it was, no one would not have seen it. It'd

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be very rare. And it was produced by New Line Cinema,

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the studio that built Freddy Krueger. Okay, yeah. Yeah. So

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it's an interesting film. It really is. And revisiting it,

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I liked it even more. I mean, my memory, I

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watched it Probably not right when it came out, but

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I definitely saw it on a home video, probably in 2002, 2003.

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And I remember just being kind of like, whoa, this

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trippy and dark.

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So that's kind of like the biggest point you could

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say about the cell is it's trippy and it's dark.

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Both accurate.

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Yeah. So we're going to take a quick break and

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then we'll dive in deeper into exactly what the cell

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is all about and what we got from it and

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what about it scared us. right after this. So what

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was your first impression watching the film? Because I didn't

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realize I gave mine. Well, because I watched it when

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I was so young.

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But so, you know, sitting down, you know, the dark

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living room with the projector on, And watching this movie

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that I'm guessing, I mean, did you know much about

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it ahead of time?

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I didn't know much about it, but I do remember

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like when it came out, I remember seeing trailers and

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seeing like commercials when it came to video. And I

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always remember thinking like, wow, that looks really trippy. It

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looks cool. I want to see that. And then, you know,

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never really got the chance to until, you know, now.

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So I really enjoyed it. I, you know, you know

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how I like, you know, movies and films and stuff

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that have like nightmare logic or dream logic to them.

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Yeah.

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You can never stay awake during a Fulci movie. He's

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the king of nightmare logic.

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Yeah.

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He really doesn't care. People are like, how did it

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stand there at the end? He's like, it's a nightmare.

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That's it.

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It's a nightmare.

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Fuck you.

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Uh, I mean, yeah, usually he would, he would swear

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at you too. Yeah. I mean, he was Italian. What

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do you want? You know, well, he was Roman. I'm sorry.

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Well, that's yeah.

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Well, that, I think saying you're Roman says more about

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you than being quote unquote Roman. Absolutely. That just means

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he wasn't Sicilian. Thank goodness, right? But no, so yeah,

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it is. It's a trippy movie, but it's also, it's got,

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I mean, I don't know if you picked up on it,

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but it's got a very kind of in the scenes

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that aren't inside of the minds. Yeah. Because I think

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we go into three minds total because we go into

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the little boy right at the beginning.

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Yeah, Edward and then Carl.

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Yeah, and then we go into the therapist mind at

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one point. So I think that aside from those sequences,

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it's kind of got a very dry kind of David

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Fincher style matter of factness.

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Yeah, it kind of feels like a detective procedural.

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I mean, that's a good way to put it. I

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feel like David Fincher... kind of invented the modern, well,

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the modern being post-90s detective procedural with Seven, the way

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he did Seven. Everybody wanted to do that too, down

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to what we lovingly in the business call Euro trash lighting,

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which is lighting things with fluorescents. Or, well, really lighting

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things to look like fluorescents because you can't really, back

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then you couldn't unless you had specialized tubes, which you

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could get. You could get specialized tubes, but you had

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to have like, it took a lot of prep because

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you'd have to have, they'd have to be for, unless

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you had the fixtures built, which a lot of times

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bigger movies would, uh, then you would just have the

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tubes in there anyway. But often we would, uh, we

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would salt and pepper, uh, the lighting that we had

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that were fluorescent lights, but they were movie lights. They

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weren't on the ceilings or anything. Um, and salt and

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pepper is just putting one bulb that's balanced to daylight

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and one bulb that's balanced to tungsten. So one's blue

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and one's orange. And it would kind of give this

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sheen and then, If you really needed it, then you'd

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just boost the green a little or reduce the magenta

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a tiny bit, and then you'd have it. But he

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made that really popular, and he made it look cool.

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So nearly any procedural movie leaned into this dark atmosphere

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with fluorescent lights and very matter-of-fact horrors or tragedies or

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what have you. And I'm not even trying to pick

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on Fincher. I think he's a really amazing filmmaker, but

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he did establish that. In his early career. I mean,

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it's in Alien 3, which was his first feature. It's all, well,

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and he came from music videos, which were full of

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that too, his music videos.

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Yeah.

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So, but yeah, so that was a bit more of

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a digression than I meant for it. But, but so

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that's kind of my point though, is like, so it

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has like, it definitely has a sense of the era

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of like what people, what the visual palette had become

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to the audience.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which makes sense, because makers are not going to be

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immune to it, and it's not like it came out

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the year after Seven or anything. It came out like

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four or five years later, so why wouldn't it be

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inspired by that?

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Yeah, it's like in the zeitgeist.

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Yeah, exactly. So, as you were watching the movie, and

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the trippy parts come in.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because I'm guessing that you may have been diffused by

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the non-trippy parts. Yeah, well, what.

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What was interesting is like looking back at my notes

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because the very very first scene is in the little

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kid's head yeah I for the I was having a

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very difficult time like kind of pinpointing what was going

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on in the mind versus like what is actually happening in.

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Real life mm-hmm Well, I think that's very on purpose.

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Absolutely it is. And so that just made me even

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more engaged because it's that little mystery for like the

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first act of the film, basically, of figuring out like, okay, wait, no,

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is this real life? Okay, no, this is the dream part.

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This is the real life part. Wait, this is a

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new character. Are they real or not?

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Yeah.

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So unraveling that mystery just kept me engaged. It made me.

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Even more excited when Vince Vaughn's character came, because then

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it's like, oh, now we've got someone who's really in

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the investigation with us.

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Yeah, and he's oddly grounded. Mm-hmm. Well, one of the

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things I think he did so well, the movie did

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so well, and then Vince Vaughn did so well, is

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he's kind of a cliche character. He's a guy who...

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because of a court thing and whatever, somebody died, you know,

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because he, because I think, wasn't he, I think he

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was a prosecutor.

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Yeah.

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And they didn't put this guy away and then he

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murders this woman and he felt horrible about it. So

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he became a detective because he was like, I want

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to be a part of Cajun. I'm not anything else.

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Yeah.

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And I don't want to be whatever, whatever they do

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with it. I want to be my hands clean of that.

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If they let him go, it's not my fault. I

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put him in a cage. That's a very kind of cliche. Like,

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you know, I'm, I'm, struggling i don't uh i mean

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he has all those cliche moments i mean he's you

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know like brushing his teeth at the fbi office.

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Where he's clearly just been sleeping at his desk.

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Yeah yeah which works because vaughn is great yeah i

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mean he sells it he makes it believable or at

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least charming because he's he's just he is vince vaughn

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i mean there's no doubt yeah he's got the it

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factor um but because of the way the movie handles everything,

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that cliche for me, doesn't really, it doesn't really hit

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in a way that makes me feel, I don't know, uh, uh,

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talked down to or anything. I feel like it works.

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Yeah.

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Um, you know, even though he is kind of like,

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I won't let this happen again. That's why I'll never

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give up, you know, which is a little chilly, cheesy

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and silly, uh, chilly, which is cheesy and silly or

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just cheesy, chilly. Um, you're not allowed to be hungry, but, um,

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But I think he nails it really well, and he

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does kind of, in an odd way, he kind of

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grounds everything, even though he is kind of an unbelievable

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cliché character. So I love that.

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But he plays against the clichés of Jennifer Lopez's character

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really well, because she is the kind of stereotypical... always

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always optimistic like in it for the kids child psychologist

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like nobody else gets the kids like i do because

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you know they're so you know sweet and innocent and

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i see eye to eye with them like there's a

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very similar uh psychology to the archetypes they're playing it's

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just they're you know good cop bad cop kind.

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Of i mean yeah i i think that the way

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that they, that their dichotomies play is actually really fascinating.

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Cause if you look at, you know, Jennifer Lopez and,

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and later on, she's like referenced by religious iconography that

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actually kind of plays up this like idea that she's

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oddly pure and she's oddly kind and giving and sincere.

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But then you have D'Onofrio's character who is a monster.

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I mean, he's just a monster. Like the moment that

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his introduction scene is, is mortifying and terrifying all at once.

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where you see the reality of what he does to

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his victims Vaughn to me is oddly grounding because D'Onofrio

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is almost, almost a caricature. I mean, because he's just

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so monstrous, but, but, but, but because they show you

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what he does, you don't laugh or giggle. You're like,

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Oh God, you know, so it keeps it that grounded in,

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in reality. But, you know, Lopez is a dreamer and

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D'Onofrio is a comically evil, I mean, so beyond evil monster.

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And then Vaughn is just like hanging out being like, hey,

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I'm really flawed. I'm just trying to make sense of

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all this. He's right in the middle. He's right in

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the middle. And I think that that works really well. Yeah.

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You know, it plays really well with it.

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But.

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Yeah, I do.

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It did, especially like, sorry, I know we're getting ready

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to go to a break, but it did.

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Especially give, give away the secrets of the show. Jeez.

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Um, it, it gave me, especially in the first act,

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as we were, as we were learning about the characters,

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I got the feeling like this is what would happen

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if you took a character from like the original run

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of law and order and put them in the matrix.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

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Just, you know, they're super grounded and like, yeah, we've

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just got to catch these bad guys. And then it's like,

475
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so anyway, we've got to go into this guy's brain.

476
00:25:10.369 --> 00:25:14.009
You're like, oh, okay. I'm just here to catch the

477
00:25:14.049 --> 00:25:14.970
bad guy, dude.

478
00:25:15.690 --> 00:25:17.950
And just for the record, I mean, it was D'Onofrio

479
00:25:17.990 --> 00:25:20.109
that was on Law & Order Criminal Intent for 10 years.

480
00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:24.980
That's just funny. One of those shows, actually it was

481
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.740
D'Onofrio that was on one of those shows. That is funny.

482
00:25:27.500 --> 00:25:29.440
But when we get back, we'll dive a little deeper

483
00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:33.710
into the serial killer and his brain and what it means,

484
00:25:33.869 --> 00:25:36.069
what it all means, right after this.

485
00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.539
So, one thing I did notice as we started the film,

486
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:57.279
because the initial score is, like, really discordant, and there's, like,

487
00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:02.910
horns and, like, Middle Eastern, like, stringed instruments and everything.

488
00:26:02.549 --> 00:26:05.329
Which i'm not trying to to steal your digression uh

489
00:26:05.390 --> 00:26:06.930
but i i meant to mention and then i got

490
00:26:07.049 --> 00:26:10.069
sidetracked by us talking about the the dichotomy of the

491
00:26:10.089 --> 00:26:14.430
three main characters yeah um while it is a you

492
00:26:14.450 --> 00:26:16.539
know it was a relatively high budget movie and they

493
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.680
could build all kinds of things um some of the

494
00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:21.720
moments that were really surreal where you were kind of

495
00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:25.680
like whoa especially the beginning they filmed those in uh

496
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.299
nambia and barcelona spain like on the outskirts oh okay

497
00:26:30.670 --> 00:26:32.069
So that's one of the ways they were able to

498
00:26:32.089 --> 00:26:35.930
kind of get that other world thing. Yeah. Kind of

499
00:26:35.970 --> 00:26:36.609
a world away.

500
00:26:36.829 --> 00:26:37.150
Yeah.

501
00:26:37.450 --> 00:26:40.109
Oh no, that's cool. Cause I do really like like

502
00:26:40.349 --> 00:26:42.990
the change in settings and obviously a lot of them

503
00:26:43.829 --> 00:26:44.759
are stages.

504
00:26:44.779 --> 00:26:45.859
Oh sure. Sure.

505
00:26:46.579 --> 00:26:50.160
But yeah, there is especially like desert scenes. Um, so yeah,

506
00:26:50.180 --> 00:26:53.039
that's really cool. Uh, but yeah, as, as the movie

507
00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:57.650
opens on this desert and, um, Jennifer Lopez's character is

508
00:26:57.849 --> 00:27:00.269
riding on a horse and she's in this beautiful white

509
00:27:00.390 --> 00:27:01.029
flowing gown.

510
00:27:01.309 --> 00:27:06.569
Lots of flowing. Lots of flowing imagery. Fabric and such. Yeah.

511
00:27:07.289 --> 00:27:10.569
And I love her costume changes, which we'll talk about

512
00:27:10.630 --> 00:27:14.420
that more. But, you know, the music was really discordant

513
00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:17.380
and the credits came up and said music's by Howard Shore.

514
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.400
And I looked at you and I was like, I

515
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.599
know that name. I know that composer and I can't

516
00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:22.440
remember who it is.

517
00:27:22.460 --> 00:27:23.680
Yeah, Pauly Shore's dead, right?

518
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:23.819
Yeah.

519
00:27:25.869 --> 00:27:26.269
That's a joke.

520
00:27:27.450 --> 00:27:27.970
I hope.

521
00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:29.670
I'm checking to make sure, but yeah, I'm pretty sure.

522
00:27:30.150 --> 00:27:30.569
It's a joke.

523
00:27:30.710 --> 00:27:33.390
I didn't look up his parents, but yeah.

524
00:27:33.589 --> 00:27:36.430
It's a joke. Will he be the father of Pauly Shore,

525
00:27:36.470 --> 00:27:37.490
not the son of Pauly Shore?

526
00:27:38.230 --> 00:27:38.990
No, you're correct.

527
00:27:39.890 --> 00:27:43.329
But he's not. So anyway. No relation. Zero relation. No

528
00:27:43.369 --> 00:27:45.309
relation at all. None.

529
00:27:45.869 --> 00:27:49.109
So, you know, we watched the movie and then I

530
00:27:49.150 --> 00:27:51.970
finally had to look it up and, oh no, Howard Shore.

531
00:27:52.529 --> 00:27:56.269
who composed music for The Silence of the Lambs and Mrs.

532
00:27:56.309 --> 00:27:58.670
Doubtfire and Ed Wood and The Lord of the Rings.

533
00:27:59.630 --> 00:28:00.230
And The Hobbit.

534
00:28:00.490 --> 00:28:04.609
And The Hobbit, which is really funny that, you know,

535
00:28:04.769 --> 00:28:06.450
obviously I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Rings

536
00:28:06.470 --> 00:28:09.509
and The Hobbit. That was a bit of information that

537
00:28:09.529 --> 00:28:12.150
was tucked away in my brain, but I couldn't access it.

538
00:28:13.009 --> 00:28:14.450
I had to look it up, and I just thought

539
00:28:14.470 --> 00:28:17.079
that was really funny, kind of tied into the theme

540
00:28:17.210 --> 00:28:18.410
of the movie a little bit.

541
00:28:18.970 --> 00:28:23.210
Well, you... You're right. I mean, it's awesome. But there's

542
00:28:23.230 --> 00:28:25.730
an even more interesting element to his scoring career because

543
00:28:26.150 --> 00:28:29.309
his first film, I believe that was, yeah, his first

544
00:28:29.369 --> 00:28:34.730
film score for a major film was The Brood, which

545
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:37.339
was one of David Cronenberg's first films.

546
00:28:37.579 --> 00:28:38.000
Oh, shit.

547
00:28:38.059 --> 00:28:40.740
He's Canadian. And he went on to score all of

548
00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:43.680
Cronenberg's subsequent films except for The Dead Zone.

549
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:44.579
Oh, damn.

550
00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:45.059
I didn't remember that.

551
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:49.019
So he was a longtime collaborator with Cronenberg. He did

552
00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:54.470
The Fly. But he also scored five or six films

553
00:28:54.529 --> 00:28:55.329
for Scorsese.

554
00:28:55.910 --> 00:28:56.490
Damn.

555
00:28:56.589 --> 00:28:59.450
Including After Hours, which in my opinion is one of

556
00:28:59.470 --> 00:29:02.049
the most underrated Scorsese movies ever. You have not seen it.

557
00:29:03.130 --> 00:29:05.660
I know you haven't because the first time I watched it,

558
00:29:05.670 --> 00:29:07.509
you weren't there. So I know you didn't see it

559
00:29:08.150 --> 00:29:10.410
because I only saw it recently and it blew my mind.

560
00:29:10.470 --> 00:29:12.390
I immediately bought the 4K of that. I was like,

561
00:29:12.410 --> 00:29:15.259
I have to have this around. It's super good. But

562
00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:19.930
he also did the score for Big. from penny marshall

563
00:29:19.950 --> 00:29:22.109
starring tom hanks where tom hanks gets turned into a

564
00:29:22.349 --> 00:29:25.119
from a little boy into a grown-up yeah um he

565
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:29.900
did so many films and that was all before silence

566
00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:32.500
of the lambs you know before one of the biggest

567
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.289
movies he he ever did um but he also uh

568
00:29:37.650 --> 00:29:41.619
scored philadelphia which was a another film by john jonathan

569
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:44.240
demi which also another tom hanks movie the the film

570
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:47.869
about hiv oh okay uh and then mrs doubtfire of

571
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:53.950
course which is very very solid and um i mean

572
00:29:53.970 --> 00:29:56.930
i love mrs doubtfire but like uh mrs doubtfire in

573
00:29:56.950 --> 00:30:00.170
philadelphia being your back-to-back scores You might think I'm going

574
00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:01.690
to make a joke about how different they are, and

575
00:30:01.730 --> 00:30:04.829
that's fine. But no, they were like two massively successful

576
00:30:04.869 --> 00:30:07.609
movies that came out right back to each other. Yeah.

577
00:30:07.650 --> 00:30:11.049
Philadelphia won Tom Hanks' first Oscar. Oh, damn. And Mrs.

578
00:30:11.089 --> 00:30:15.150
Doubtfire became, it was a gigantic monster hit. It was everywhere.

579
00:30:16.190 --> 00:30:20.950
So he's had like a really fascinating score. But where

580
00:30:20.970 --> 00:30:27.680
it gets funny is he did David Fincher's Seven and

581
00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:31.950
The Game. So he did two Fincher movies before this. I,

582
00:30:33.630 --> 00:30:35.599
how did I, I love the game, but somehow my

583
00:30:35.619 --> 00:30:37.819
brain did not accept that Fincher was the director. That's

584
00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:41.480
a phenomenal thriller. So, I mean, he, he had done,

585
00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:44.079
and my point is like, he had a, he had

586
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:48.529
a stellar film score career. And this is all before

587
00:30:48.589 --> 00:30:49.930
he did any of the Hobbit or Lord of the

588
00:30:49.950 --> 00:30:53.029
Rings or anything too. So he had a massive, massive,

589
00:30:53.730 --> 00:30:57.980
fascinating career. And yeah, You know, and then he did

590
00:30:58.269 --> 00:31:00.470
stuff like he scored Dogma.

591
00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:01.430
Oh.

592
00:31:02.710 --> 00:31:05.390
Yeah. And then right after Dogma, he did The Cell.

593
00:31:06.309 --> 00:31:09.730
So in my estimation, from looking at this, this obscene

594
00:31:09.789 --> 00:31:12.109
career that doesn't even end there, I mean, he's still

595
00:31:12.150 --> 00:31:14.549
alive and I think he's still working.

596
00:31:15.190 --> 00:31:15.950
I believe so.

597
00:31:16.829 --> 00:31:21.710
But what's crazy is his career was on such a trajectory.

598
00:31:21.789 --> 00:31:23.730
I feel like they brought him in for The Cell

599
00:31:23.990 --> 00:31:28.269
either because the director was Desperately wanted him or because

600
00:31:28.309 --> 00:31:31.630
the studio wanted to get, to get like, to buy

601
00:31:31.710 --> 00:31:32.849
some cred.

602
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:34.519
Ah, I can see that.

603
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:36.000
I have it. Cause I, I feel bad. I didn't

604
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.319
have the director, right. Uh, the director is, uh, Tarsam Singh. Uh,

605
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:41.480
that is right.

606
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:41.700
Right.

607
00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:44.279
I got paranoid. Tarsam Singh.

608
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:44.559
Yeah.

609
00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:48.400
Tarsam Singh. I, as a filmmaker myself, it would be

610
00:31:48.869 --> 00:31:52.210
horribly inappropriate for me to say the wrong director, but he, he,

611
00:31:52.910 --> 00:31:55.650
he had a pretty interesting career. He didn't do a

612
00:31:55.769 --> 00:32:00.210
million huge hits. Um, but I think the cell was his, yeah,

613
00:32:00.230 --> 00:32:03.210
it was his first feature. So, and actually I could

614
00:32:03.230 --> 00:32:06.450
have guessed that simply from, they got the composer that

615
00:32:06.690 --> 00:32:08.950
literally just did an Oscar movie and then did an

616
00:32:09.019 --> 00:32:12.359
Oscar movie three years earlier and has done nothing but massive,

617
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.259
massive things. Um, that makes sense. Cause they're trying to like,

618
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:20.359
you know, set him up for success. Yeah. So, Anyway,

619
00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:23.119
but that's that's I just want to mention that, too. Like,

620
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:26.269
I looked into that composer a tiny bit and just

621
00:32:26.329 --> 00:32:31.250
noticed the obscene amount of notable credits, both in my

622
00:32:31.329 --> 00:32:36.950
personal opinion and in the lexicon of film lovers everywhere. Yeah.

623
00:32:37.130 --> 00:32:40.559
So and when we get back, maybe. We'll talk about

624
00:32:40.579 --> 00:32:43.170
the movie some more. I don't know. Why? What the?

625
00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:47.849
My Alexa just started talking for no reason. That is terrifying.

626
00:32:47.869 --> 00:32:49.849
I think we're haunted. Oh gosh, I'm out of here.

627
00:32:49.869 --> 00:32:52.230
We've got to join Sarah Connor and the resistance.

628
00:32:52.309 --> 00:33:04.369
Oh God.

629
00:33:04.890 --> 00:33:08.180
I want to mention, by the way, The writer of

630
00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:11.130
this film is Mark Protasevich. I think that's how you

631
00:33:11.150 --> 00:33:15.529
say it, Protasevich. And I think that this was a

632
00:33:16.130 --> 00:33:18.930
spec concept he sold to New Line Cinema, which is cool.

633
00:33:19.250 --> 00:33:20.150
Oh, good for him.

634
00:33:20.549 --> 00:33:26.869
He wrote a few unproduced scripts before getting The Cell made.

635
00:33:27.529 --> 00:33:30.240
But after The Cell, he made a few movies that

636
00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:34.140
were big. He made Poseidon in 2006, which I think

637
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.670
was a hit. That's during a blind spot when I

638
00:33:36.690 --> 00:33:40.630
didn't go to the movie theaters. Oh, no, was not

639
00:33:40.650 --> 00:33:45.049
a hit. Well, huge budget, $ 160 million and it made 181.

640
00:33:45.049 --> 00:33:49.750
But that's a spicy meatball. But after that, he wrote

641
00:33:49.950 --> 00:33:52.769
I Am Legend. Oh, whoa. And I know you like

642
00:33:52.869 --> 00:33:54.269
I Am Legend. I'm pretty sure.

643
00:33:54.289 --> 00:33:55.190
I do.

644
00:33:55.549 --> 00:33:57.769
I think I've talked to you before about how I like,

645
00:33:57.829 --> 00:33:59.410
that's one of the few ones where I actually like

646
00:33:59.430 --> 00:34:00.349
the movie more than the book.

647
00:34:01.190 --> 00:34:01.529
Wow.

648
00:34:01.910 --> 00:34:02.109
Yeah.

649
00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:03.990
Don't tell anyone else I said that.

650
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:07.700
I mean, that movie cost $ 150 million and made $ 585 million.

651
00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:10.469
I mean, that was a hit. Then he wrote the

652
00:34:10.530 --> 00:34:18.429
first Thor movie for Marvel. Okay. In 2011. I mean,

653
00:34:18.710 --> 00:34:20.590
he was one of the story developing people, I guess.

654
00:34:21.110 --> 00:34:22.449
But it was interesting because I was looking at this

655
00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:23.590
and I was like, wow, there's a lot of breaks

656
00:34:23.650 --> 00:34:25.030
in there. It doesn't seem like he's working a lot.

657
00:34:25.090 --> 00:34:29.639
He wrote the American version of Oldboy from 2013, which

658
00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:32.780
I liked it, but it's hard to beat Oldboy. And

659
00:34:32.820 --> 00:34:35.449
it was a huge flop. Oh, it would be, they

660
00:34:35.469 --> 00:34:37.250
spent 30 million on it and made five at the

661
00:34:37.269 --> 00:34:37.869
box office.

662
00:34:38.389 --> 00:34:38.550
Ouch.

663
00:34:39.010 --> 00:34:40.800
So I was like, wow, his career hasn't like been

664
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:42.480
that intense. And I was like, oh, but then he

665
00:34:42.539 --> 00:34:47.320
also like created the, uh, Apple TV original series sugar,

666
00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:49.760
which is on its second season right now, I think.

667
00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:50.699
Okay.

668
00:34:50.739 --> 00:34:52.860
And it's, I I've, I've actually, it's on my list

669
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.300
to start watching once I, once I have, uh, another

670
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.489
slot in my, uh, free, I'm making air quotes, free

671
00:34:58.530 --> 00:35:03.630
time to watch TV. But just a really interesting trajectory.

672
00:35:03.670 --> 00:35:06.590
But it all started with him having a concept for

673
00:35:06.809 --> 00:35:07.269
the cell.

674
00:35:08.130 --> 00:35:08.929
That's so cool.

675
00:35:09.670 --> 00:35:10.309
Yeah, sure.

676
00:35:11.449 --> 00:35:12.650
If you're into that kind of thing.

677
00:35:13.030 --> 00:35:14.800
If you like factoids.

678
00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:16.119
Which we don't.

679
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:21.239
No, sir. No, sir. Not at all. So, but yeah.

680
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:26.960
No, that's really cool. I mean, for a concept that

681
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.780
he came up with himself, I really like this concept.

682
00:35:32.769 --> 00:35:35.510
And I think it's interesting that you mentioned at the

683
00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:40.400
beginning that the movie does kind of play with the

684
00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:45.940
question of how much consent can you give a therapist?

685
00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:50.059
Because that's one of the things that they kind of

686
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:57.760
introduce is when we meet the murderer Carl, he's... drowned

687
00:35:57.780 --> 00:36:01.269
a woman and he's like processing her body but he's

688
00:36:01.309 --> 00:36:04.170
got you know those hooks on his back yeah like.

689
00:36:04.030 --> 00:36:07.949
Suspension suspension yeah and he bleaches them yeah he bleaches

690
00:36:08.010 --> 00:36:09.929
them super white yeah.

691
00:36:09.889 --> 00:36:14.800
Again a purity thing um so he like suspends himself

692
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:18.400
above their bodies to you know like play with himself

693
00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:21.170
and like Get off on it.

694
00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:25.090
He sexually gratifies himself while having this bizarre separation by

695
00:36:25.150 --> 00:36:30.059
being suspended above them. So there's no contact. It's super

696
00:36:30.219 --> 00:36:30.599
out there.

697
00:36:30.619 --> 00:36:34.840
It's super weird. And so they mention that after they

698
00:36:35.300 --> 00:36:39.900
bring in Carl, he's in this vegetative state. And they

699
00:36:39.940 --> 00:36:45.820
remove the hooks. And Jennifer Lopez's character, Catherine, she says, like,

700
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.250
you shouldn't have removed the hooks because... he clearly gets

701
00:36:49.289 --> 00:36:54.510
a sense of comfort from the feeling of suspension, of weightlessness.

702
00:36:56.349 --> 00:37:00.239
But then turn around and when she and any other

703
00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:02.780
therapist or anyone else is getting ready to go into

704
00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:07.320
someone's mind, they get suspended up above a table in

705
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:12.110
a very, very similar manner. And I just, clearly that

706
00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:14.670
is on purpose. It's kind of saying like there is

707
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.699
There is kind of like this interplay of, you know,

708
00:37:20.780 --> 00:37:23.739
trust that you have to have between a therapist and,

709
00:37:23.820 --> 00:37:26.929
you know, kind of asking how much trust do you

710
00:37:26.989 --> 00:37:29.230
give them versus someone else?

711
00:37:29.469 --> 00:37:34.730
Well, and I may have sold Catherine Lopez's character a

712
00:37:34.769 --> 00:37:39.760
little too simply. I mean, she's got demons in a way.

713
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:43.199
I mean, they're much milder. I mean, she wants to

714
00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:46.250
save people because she's seen hurt and stuff like that.

715
00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:49.630
And it does kind of open up the question of like,

716
00:37:49.650 --> 00:37:51.389
does she have a savior complex? Like how much is

717
00:37:51.429 --> 00:37:53.710
she doing for others and how much is she doing

718
00:37:53.809 --> 00:37:57.510
kind of for herself? You know, depending on how you

719
00:37:57.530 --> 00:38:02.460
look at it, because she's a child psychologist generally. And

720
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.639
the whole point is that when they find out that

721
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.519
this serial killer guy that they've been hunting forever is

722
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:12.710
in a coma, it's just like through whispers. Somebody's like,

723
00:38:12.909 --> 00:38:15.130
I've heard they're doing this thing with coma patients at

724
00:38:15.170 --> 00:38:18.699
this one hospital. Like, it's super experimental and super early.

725
00:38:19.489 --> 00:38:21.300
And then they have to go to the doctors and

726
00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:24.179
suggest this. And they're just like, I mean, that's not

727
00:38:24.219 --> 00:38:26.380
really what we do. And it's like, there are dangers

728
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:29.420
we don't even understand yet. But then it's like, but

729
00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:31.780
we're on a clock. So, like, yes or no. Because

730
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:33.280
if it's no, I got to leave and try to

731
00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:34.239
figure something else out.

732
00:38:34.389 --> 00:38:34.590
Yeah.

733
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.210
Because their hope is that when they go into Carl's mind,

734
00:38:37.309 --> 00:38:41.880
they're going to get clues. Mm-hmm. That's literally it. They

735
00:38:41.940 --> 00:38:45.079
just want to get a clue that could help them

736
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.139
figure out something because they've already ran all of his

737
00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:51.440
personal stuff and he doesn't have any secret properties or anything.

738
00:38:51.460 --> 00:38:53.840
There were no clues in his home that they could decipher.

739
00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:56.449
So they're just trying to find anything about him that

740
00:38:56.489 --> 00:38:57.769
might tell something.

741
00:38:57.989 --> 00:38:58.170
Yeah.

742
00:38:58.449 --> 00:39:03.750
And of course, Catherine is curious. And one of the

743
00:39:03.809 --> 00:39:07.250
first things that happens when she's really in Carl's mind,

744
00:39:07.329 --> 00:39:12.119
aside from all the terrifying things Imagery that's presented is

745
00:39:12.139 --> 00:39:16.500
we start to see the child Carl. And he's presented

746
00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:21.059
as being abused and neglected and also being oddly protective

747
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.050
of her because there's a part where like the dad's

748
00:39:23.090 --> 00:39:26.489
coming and he slams the door shut on the closet,

749
00:39:26.630 --> 00:39:28.070
thereby protecting her.

750
00:39:28.150 --> 00:39:30.539
Yeah, keeping her safe yeah his dad.

751
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.360
Except then she's like standing in a bucket of eels

752
00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:35.360
and stuff it's really the movie's wild um one of

753
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.519
my favorite moments just because it's like whoa okay okay

754
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:41.309
um but one of the elements that the movie really

755
00:39:41.349 --> 00:39:44.369
gets across that i think is is really valuable is

756
00:39:44.409 --> 00:39:53.119
she keeps encountering young carl but then the evil carl is, like, he's, like,

757
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.820
depicts himself as, like, some kind of, like, king.

758
00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:59.340
Like a god emperor.

759
00:39:59.739 --> 00:40:01.760
A god emperor is a good way of putting it. But, like,

760
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:08.340
through the styling of, like, really antiquated theater. Mm-hmm. You know,

761
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.239
big costume, big hat, big motions, big gestures.

762
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:15.940
And again, with the big flowing cape and gown and everything.

763
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:20.150
And, and, And we find out very quickly that he has,

764
00:40:20.449 --> 00:40:24.369
you know, an obsession with control. Yeah. With controlling others,

765
00:40:24.449 --> 00:40:28.090
which makes sense because, I mean, that's what he's doing

766
00:40:28.150 --> 00:40:32.030
to the victims is he's controlling them, you know, kidnapping

767
00:40:32.070 --> 00:40:35.030
them and then locking them up and then killing them

768
00:40:35.550 --> 00:40:39.409
on his whims, but then keeping that mild separation. And

769
00:40:39.829 --> 00:40:42.010
that is, that's actually where I was trying to go

770
00:40:42.030 --> 00:40:46.250
with it. I was having trouble finding my footing. That separation.

771
00:40:47.190 --> 00:40:52.110
is kind of like young Carl and the king monster

772
00:40:52.329 --> 00:40:58.400
in his mind. He's trying to be both. Yeah. In

773
00:40:58.460 --> 00:40:58.820
a way.

774
00:40:59.179 --> 00:40:59.360
Yeah.

775
00:40:59.900 --> 00:41:03.360
But the element of the movie that is truly kind

776
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:05.920
of the heartbreaking moment, especially the heartbreaking moment for Catherine,

777
00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:10.559
is she just can't seem to accept that they're not separate.

778
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:14.610
They're just not. They are literally the same person. They're

779
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:19.219
just two deviations. But they're literally the same. You can't

780
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.619
have one and not the other. They either die or

781
00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:23.139
they don't.

782
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:25.260
Well, and not to jump too far ahead, but that

783
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:26.699
is kind of like the climax.

784
00:41:27.019 --> 00:41:30.159
Yeah, yeah. But she struggles with that the whole time.

785
00:41:30.659 --> 00:41:33.610
The basic is string writing. Most of it is knowing

786
00:41:33.619 --> 00:41:34.780
what you're supposed to do and trying to decide if

787
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:38.030
you should do it. That's like the ultimate conflict in

788
00:41:38.050 --> 00:41:42.449
almost every script. So that's one thing that really kind

789
00:41:42.489 --> 00:41:48.949
of fascinated me. That and witnessing the child abuse that

790
00:41:49.110 --> 00:41:54.429
Carl experiences as a child and seeing how he had

791
00:41:54.530 --> 00:41:55.550
no control.

792
00:41:55.570 --> 00:41:58.780
And then, yeah.

793
00:41:59.380 --> 00:42:02.619
So he wants ultimate control. But then this weird, this

794
00:42:02.739 --> 00:42:06.760
other weird element where young Carl is like running through

795
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:11.320
this hellscape of memories and yada yada. And the monster

796
00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:14.030
king Carl, I'm going to start calling him that. The

797
00:42:14.050 --> 00:42:18.190
monster King Carl is just lording over his dominion, his

798
00:42:18.250 --> 00:42:22.380
dominion of hellish experiences and the hope to hurt someone else.

799
00:42:24.500 --> 00:42:26.300
It's really fascinating.

800
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:26.539
It is.

801
00:42:26.579 --> 00:42:30.340
And it's really, it gets your brain juices going about

802
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:33.309
like what is going on here and we'll figure more

803
00:42:33.449 --> 00:42:35.929
out right after this or we won't.

804
00:42:50.329 --> 00:42:56.710
Before we get too far, we've discussed the therapist. We've

805
00:42:56.750 --> 00:43:01.579
discussed the detective. We've discussed the murderer.

806
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.300
But I think we should. I know what you're I

807
00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:05.300
know where you're going. Yeah, I know where you're going.

808
00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:08.500
We haven't discussed the fact that no one in this

809
00:43:08.579 --> 00:43:12.380
entire damn movie that's inside of the killer's mind or

810
00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:14.320
inside of Jennifer Lopez's mind or inside a little kid's

811
00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:17.070
mind ever when something weird happens or something bad happens

812
00:43:17.110 --> 00:43:19.849
or when they're struggling. No one, no one ever went.

813
00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:28.139
do you mind? Sorry. I, I, I, I thought of that.

814
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.420
Like the moment you started talking, it was killing me.

815
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:34.409
But anyway, but you have an actual point. I just,

816
00:43:34.550 --> 00:43:37.190
just the idea, like, like a giant snakes lives by.

817
00:43:37.190 --> 00:43:39.309
I was like, Oh, do you mind? Cause it's a

818
00:43:39.369 --> 00:43:44.210
mind there inside of, and it's just a, uh, like, uh, uh, Dr.

819
00:43:44.230 --> 00:43:49.969
Zayas from planet of the apes. This mind is something. Anyway, Um,

820
00:43:50.250 --> 00:43:51.690
and nobody ever said a mind is a terrible thing

821
00:43:51.710 --> 00:43:53.809
to waste. Like if they saw a trash can or something, uh,

822
00:43:54.949 --> 00:43:58.289
it's so many, they, they wasted potential. They should have

823
00:43:58.309 --> 00:44:01.769
hired me to punch the script up. I was 11.

824
00:44:01.769 --> 00:44:02.389
You could have done it.

825
00:44:02.389 --> 00:44:03.090
I would have nailed it.

826
00:44:03.230 --> 00:44:03.469
Yeah.

827
00:44:03.530 --> 00:44:06.510
Maybe 12. Anyway, but no, you were, you, so we were,

828
00:44:06.570 --> 00:44:08.590
we've been talking a lot about, yeah, you were saying

829
00:44:08.670 --> 00:44:12.460
about the, the, the, the kind of lead three, especially,

830
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.340
you know, the serial killer, the, the, the therapist who,

831
00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:19.300
you know, cares too much. the detective who just won't

832
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.860
let this happen again. But you're right, there's another really

833
00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:26.920
interesting character who gets a decent amount of screen time

834
00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:29.760
and it's all really quality screen time.

835
00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:35.639
It all really pays off. So the victim, in air quotes, victim, Julia,

836
00:44:35.980 --> 00:44:40.739
and she is victimized by Carl. So what happens is

837
00:44:41.570 --> 00:44:47.110
after the initial murder, Carl needs to find his next victim.

838
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:50.579
And he's driving around. He sees some lady, you know,

839
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:51.880
out in the city.

840
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:56.380
He's driving around with his adorable albino dog, which feeds

841
00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:58.900
into all of it. The whole cleanliness and the bleach

842
00:44:58.960 --> 00:44:59.280
and stuff.

843
00:44:59.320 --> 00:44:59.530
Yeah.

844
00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:00.289
Sorry.

845
00:45:00.550 --> 00:45:03.210
So he does. He has an albino German shepherd, which

846
00:45:03.289 --> 00:45:06.610
is like a big thing. So he's driving around with

847
00:45:06.650 --> 00:45:09.590
his dog. He sees this lady and ends up following her.

848
00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:14.690
And the thing I love about this character is Every

849
00:45:14.809 --> 00:45:17.110
once in a while in a film, you find someone

850
00:45:17.150 --> 00:45:18.309
who does it all right.

851
00:45:19.289 --> 00:45:22.210
Are you talking about like in the air quote, the

852
00:45:22.329 --> 00:45:23.070
victim realm?

853
00:45:23.090 --> 00:45:24.190
The victim realm, yeah.

854
00:45:24.269 --> 00:45:24.909
Like Red Eye.

855
00:45:25.489 --> 00:45:26.780
Exactly like Red Eye.

856
00:45:26.820 --> 00:45:29.559
Which Wes Craven, I think, or maybe it was the writer,

857
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.260
the original writer, I can't remember which, one of the

858
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:33.860
creators of Red Eye said that all they wanted to

859
00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:36.809
do was make a movie where as you were watching it,

860
00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:38.280
every time you were going to go, why doesn't she,

861
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:39.090
she just does it.

862
00:45:39.179 --> 00:45:39.340
Yeah.

863
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:39.519
Yeah.

864
00:45:40.289 --> 00:45:42.710
And it doesn't, like, that is exactly my experience when

865
00:45:42.750 --> 00:45:45.389
I saw it. So, no, I know exactly what you're saying.

866
00:45:45.730 --> 00:45:48.559
The badass victim. Exactly. Yeah, yeah.

867
00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:51.159
The victim that, like, doesn't sit there and just, like,

868
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:57.269
let everything happen. So, our introduction to Julia after that initial, like, just,

869
00:45:57.590 --> 00:46:02.389
you know, Carl making her, objectifying her. That's the word.

870
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.940
Yeah, and literally, like, creating her into an object, not just, like,

871
00:46:05.980 --> 00:46:08.420
looking at her and going, woo! No, but, like, literally. No,

872
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.099
he puts her in a box so he can look

873
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:10.420
at her.

874
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:12.539
Literally objectifying her.

875
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:13.340
Yeah.

876
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:16.820
The introduction is she gets off of work, she's walking

877
00:46:16.909 --> 00:46:21.449
through a parking garage, and she does everything right. And

878
00:46:21.610 --> 00:46:23.929
you and I have talked before. Sorry, didn't mean to

879
00:46:24.010 --> 00:46:25.530
punch the microphone.

880
00:46:25.570 --> 00:46:26.530
Oh, it's fine. I'll send you a bill.

881
00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:31.599
But you and I have discussed before, like, something will

882
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:33.000
happen in a movie and you're like, no, what do

883
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:36.539
you think? Cause you are a tiny little person. What,

884
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:38.659
what are you thinking in this moment?

885
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:41.590
Especially stuff like when we watch like Henry or confessions

886
00:46:41.630 --> 00:46:44.409
of a serial killer. And it's like this scene where

887
00:46:44.510 --> 00:46:47.190
like a chick just takes a ride from a guy

888
00:46:47.329 --> 00:46:50.489
and then he makes it like super tense. You know, like,

889
00:46:51.030 --> 00:46:53.179
what do you think? Cause like you, you know, I

890
00:46:53.219 --> 00:46:56.760
could have a version of that experience, but not the

891
00:46:56.840 --> 00:46:57.480
exact version.

892
00:46:57.739 --> 00:46:57.880
Yeah.

893
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.210
Experience. Cause I've always got that little, that tinge of like,

894
00:47:00.250 --> 00:47:01.750
I'm a dude, even though I'm not like a tall

895
00:47:01.789 --> 00:47:03.889
dude and I'm not like a tough dude. I can

896
00:47:03.909 --> 00:47:05.829
still like, I can still like maybe punch your skull

897
00:47:05.889 --> 00:47:08.769
and maybe, I mean like it's in there somewhere in my,

898
00:47:09.050 --> 00:47:10.800
but you, it's like, if you punch their skull and

899
00:47:10.820 --> 00:47:13.380
you gotta be really dedicated, you gotta really know how,

900
00:47:13.659 --> 00:47:16.179
you know what I mean? Like, you know, I don't, it's, it's, it's,

901
00:47:16.219 --> 00:47:18.579
it's very primal. It's a primal lizard thing.

902
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:23.969
Oh, absolutely. So this, this lady does everything right. In

903
00:47:23.989 --> 00:47:25.889
that when she gets off work, she's going through a

904
00:47:26.030 --> 00:47:27.730
dark car park all alone.

905
00:47:27.789 --> 00:47:28.969
Could you say that three times fast?

906
00:47:29.349 --> 00:47:31.949
No. We got one, and that's it.

907
00:47:32.329 --> 00:47:38.179
That is the correct answer. I started the show, I

908
00:47:38.539 --> 00:47:40.599
was worried I was getting a really bad headache, if

909
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:43.440
I'm honest. And all of a sudden, I'm not, and

910
00:47:43.500 --> 00:47:50.090
now I am feeling perky. I like it. And everyone

911
00:47:50.130 --> 00:47:51.690
has to pay the price on that.

912
00:47:51.710 --> 00:47:51.889
Oh, no.

913
00:47:53.070 --> 00:47:54.730
But I don't want you to lose your thoughts, though.

914
00:47:54.750 --> 00:47:56.070
I just want to have fun with it.

915
00:47:56.389 --> 00:47:59.730
So she's walking through the car, the parking garage. She

916
00:47:59.789 --> 00:48:03.909
is parked under a light. She's parked near a door. She,

917
00:48:04.070 --> 00:48:06.670
you know, looks around. She has her keys, you know,

918
00:48:06.710 --> 00:48:09.349
between her fingers as she's walking up to her car.

919
00:48:09.730 --> 00:48:13.170
She gets in the car, immediately starts it, doesn't even

920
00:48:13.250 --> 00:48:15.570
stop to buckle before she starts backing up.

921
00:48:15.650 --> 00:48:15.869
Yeah.

922
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:19.480
And then you hear, and she looks in the rearview

923
00:48:19.539 --> 00:48:24.230
mirror and there's the white dog. And that's why I

924
00:48:24.289 --> 00:48:26.340
love this movie is because like that would have got me.

925
00:48:27.179 --> 00:48:27.400
Yeah.

926
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.440
I would have gotten out of the car.

927
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:32.670
And then in a hilarious turn of events last night,

928
00:48:32.730 --> 00:48:34.750
you saw used cars for the first time and saw

929
00:48:34.789 --> 00:48:37.969
the exact same gag used to sell a station wagon. Sorry,

930
00:48:38.010 --> 00:48:40.469
it's just, I literally, as you were saying, like, the

931
00:48:40.489 --> 00:48:42.730
backup thing, and I'm remembering, I'm like, oh, yeah. That's

932
00:48:42.750 --> 00:48:45.650
literally what he does. Oh, my dog!

933
00:48:45.670 --> 00:48:47.110
You killed my dog!

934
00:48:47.630 --> 00:48:50.659
He would have wanted you to have this gently used

935
00:48:50.659 --> 00:48:53.500
1977 station wagon for your beautiful family.

936
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:54.719
We'll buy it.

937
00:48:54.739 --> 00:48:58.019
We'll buy it. And the undercoating. Yeah, the undercoating, too.

938
00:48:58.260 --> 00:48:58.719
Thank you.

939
00:48:59.380 --> 00:49:03.360
Sorry that was fun it was really funny but no

940
00:49:03.380 --> 00:49:06.440
no you're right he uses a classic and you know

941
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.679
you know that ted bundy one of his moves was

942
00:49:09.949 --> 00:49:13.110
i'm i'm trying to find my lost dog yeah sorry

943
00:49:13.150 --> 00:49:15.969
to go back to the reality of the conversation yeah

944
00:49:16.110 --> 00:49:19.090
it was it was a move because women have i

945
00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:21.300
mean i have a soft spot for animals, but women

946
00:49:21.380 --> 00:49:23.400
tend to have a very, I wouldn't even call it

947
00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:25.579
a soft spot. They also have like a cruel hard

948
00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:29.010
spot for animals. When, uh, when John wick was being

949
00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:32.349
test on screen for test audiences, they were worried. Well,

950
00:49:32.369 --> 00:49:33.789
they weren't worried, but they knew the movie was like

951
00:49:33.829 --> 00:49:36.010
appealing to men. And when they got their questionnaires, they

952
00:49:36.030 --> 00:49:39.500
were like, okay, um, what did you think of the

953
00:49:39.539 --> 00:49:41.699
dog dying? And they were like, oh my God, it's horrible.

954
00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:44.840
And they were like about 50% of men or so

955
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.389
were like, that's, that's like the worst thing ever. About

956
00:49:47.389 --> 00:49:50.670
85% of women were like, that is the worst thing ever.

957
00:49:51.050 --> 00:49:53.889
But then about 90% of women were like, he should

958
00:49:53.909 --> 00:49:58.090
have killed them worse. Like, like they wanted way more

959
00:49:58.210 --> 00:50:02.150
justice for the dog. So I just, I love that story.

960
00:50:02.210 --> 00:50:04.510
Cause it's, it's a perfectly paints a picture, but yeah.

961
00:50:04.530 --> 00:50:08.139
So like, and plus like, if you're a dog lover,

962
00:50:09.070 --> 00:50:12.329
The only thing you could imagine worse than killing somebody's

963
00:50:12.389 --> 00:50:16.469
dog would be then leaving. Right. Like if you're going

964
00:50:16.489 --> 00:50:19.090
to kill a dog by I mean, if you accidentally

965
00:50:19.110 --> 00:50:21.130
kill a dog, you should try to get it to

966
00:50:21.190 --> 00:50:23.190
its owner to at least give the owner some peace

967
00:50:23.210 --> 00:50:26.130
of mind of like, this was an accident. I'm so sorry. Exactly.

968
00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:28.230
Even though they may be mad, it's something they can

969
00:50:28.389 --> 00:50:31.130
they could sit with longer. Well, the person really didn't

970
00:50:31.190 --> 00:50:32.510
mean it, though. It was an accident.

971
00:50:32.530 --> 00:50:34.090
At least they showed they cared.

972
00:50:34.170 --> 00:50:36.630
I told you that story about my buddy Andrew's dad

973
00:50:37.230 --> 00:50:40.980
accidentally ran over a dog. Oh, no. Oh, it's unfortunately

974
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:41.969
a funny story.

975
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:42.389
Oh.

976
00:50:43.139 --> 00:50:46.010
Because he was riding his motorcycle and he accidentally hit

977
00:50:46.050 --> 00:50:48.530
this dog. And he didn't know, it wasn't his neighborhood,

978
00:50:48.550 --> 00:50:51.949
so he didn't know whose dog it was. So Andrew

979
00:50:52.090 --> 00:50:55.090
was maybe four, three, four. He was really young. And

980
00:50:55.110 --> 00:50:56.849
he had him bungee corded to the front of him.

981
00:50:56.869 --> 00:50:59.150
That's how he rode with him. Okay. Like a poose,

982
00:50:59.230 --> 00:51:00.090
but it's bungee cords.

983
00:51:00.130 --> 00:51:00.429
Yeah, yeah.

984
00:51:00.630 --> 00:51:02.630
This story is literally a nothing good ever happens. And

985
00:51:02.670 --> 00:51:07.639
it's literally Andrew's dad's story. But so Andrew's dad, dog

986
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:11.760
lover forever. His motorcycle club was called family dog. I mean,

987
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:15.079
like he is, he always loved dogs. So he picks

988
00:51:15.139 --> 00:51:18.400
this poor bloody dog up and he just knocks on

989
00:51:18.619 --> 00:51:22.530
every door. Is this your dog? But the part that's

990
00:51:22.659 --> 00:51:27.230
funny is the, the image of what it, this biker

991
00:51:28.809 --> 00:51:31.710
covered in blood, holding a dead dog with a baby

992
00:51:31.789 --> 00:51:36.960
strapped to his chest is knocking on your door. It's awful,

993
00:51:37.179 --> 00:51:40.340
but it's like, what a frigging image, you know? And

994
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:42.420
they did find the people and he, you know, he,

995
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.500
he sat with them and said, I'm like, I'm so sorry.

996
00:51:44.539 --> 00:51:47.269
It ran out in the street and I couldn't, you know, and, and,

997
00:51:47.869 --> 00:51:50.150
and he was able to, Andrew said that the lady

998
00:51:50.210 --> 00:51:52.429
was much more understanding. Cause he was like, I couldn't

999
00:51:52.449 --> 00:51:55.349
like veer hard. Cause I'm, I'm, I got my, I

1000
00:51:55.389 --> 00:51:57.320
got my three-year-old with me and she was like, no, no.

1001
00:51:57.380 --> 00:52:00.219
I mean, you can't want to do that, you know? So,

1002
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:05.019
but that image is forever. And I'm sorry about all

1003
00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:07.599
my digressions. When we come back, we will talk about

1004
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:26.760
her getting abducted by the serial killer. Maybe right after this. So, Julia.

1005
00:52:27.659 --> 00:52:30.760
That reminds me about the Monopoly man. I'm just kidding.

1006
00:52:31.139 --> 00:52:34.690
I am 100% kidding. I have no digression. I just

1007
00:52:34.849 --> 00:52:36.469
thought it would be funny to let you get like

1008
00:52:36.510 --> 00:52:37.090
three words out.

1009
00:52:37.150 --> 00:52:38.070
The Monopoly man.

1010
00:52:38.429 --> 00:52:40.030
So Julia thinks she's hit this little doggy.

1011
00:52:40.050 --> 00:52:42.630
She thinks she's hit the dog. She gets out of

1012
00:52:42.670 --> 00:52:45.969
the car, and that's when Carl comes up behind and

1013
00:52:46.030 --> 00:52:50.559
gets her. And that, as an audience member, that would

1014
00:52:50.579 --> 00:52:51.000
have got me.

1015
00:52:51.179 --> 00:52:51.659
Absolutely.

1016
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:56.639
But what's great is There's, you know, there's a short

1017
00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.280
period of time, you know, as we as the audience

1018
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:04.900
will occasionally tune in to Julia caught in this cell

1019
00:53:05.019 --> 00:53:10.460
and like there's no apparent help for her. She's not

1020
00:53:10.820 --> 00:53:13.420
your average passive victim.

1021
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:13.960
No.

1022
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:18.800
She pretty quickly after like a good while of waiting,

1023
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:23.550
I would guess in movie about six hours, eight hours, 10,

1024
00:53:23.550 --> 00:53:24.730
maybe at maximum.

1025
00:53:24.829 --> 00:53:25.010
Yeah.

1026
00:53:25.539 --> 00:53:29.480
Um, she immediately starts looking around, around her cell. Like,

1027
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.570
what can I use? What can I do? There's not

1028
00:53:32.619 --> 00:53:35.389
a door. Like there's not, it's a, it's a glass

1029
00:53:35.510 --> 00:53:38.250
plexiglass cell. There's nothing. It's what, is there anything on

1030
00:53:38.289 --> 00:53:38.829
the ground?

1031
00:53:38.909 --> 00:53:41.829
I'm pretty sure he welded her in because they established

1032
00:53:41.849 --> 00:53:46.250
that he has this like machining building expertise. And we

1033
00:53:46.269 --> 00:53:51.710
should mention the, the literal cell. Cause there's one literal cell.

1034
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:56.610
Is in like an oil refinery building that like it's

1035
00:53:56.690 --> 00:53:58.210
underground in the middle of the desert.

1036
00:53:58.429 --> 00:53:58.630
Yeah.

1037
00:53:58.969 --> 00:54:00.170
So it's kind of like a place where you would

1038
00:54:00.230 --> 00:54:01.909
only know about it if you talk to some guy

1039
00:54:01.949 --> 00:54:03.909
who knew that there used to be a refinery out there.

1040
00:54:04.010 --> 00:54:04.590
Exactly.

1041
00:54:05.389 --> 00:54:09.840
Which is another wonderful touch of how like of the

1042
00:54:09.969 --> 00:54:12.059
atmosphere and stuff is that it's out in the desert.

1043
00:54:12.139 --> 00:54:14.500
So she doesn't and she doesn't even know where she

1044
00:54:14.619 --> 00:54:16.380
that she's in the middle of nowhere locked up. She

1045
00:54:16.420 --> 00:54:18.460
just knows she's in this box that has no apparent

1046
00:54:18.579 --> 00:54:23.289
entrance whatsoever. Because it's been sealed by a welding, like

1047
00:54:23.349 --> 00:54:28.219
by welding, which is just terrifying. But yeah, she's immediately

1048
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:33.059
hunting for something to some way, some anything. Anything, yeah.

1049
00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:37.000
A screw, a vent, anything. Because the other thing that's

1050
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:39.699
kind of crazy about that cell, I mean, it's built

1051
00:54:40.699 --> 00:54:44.179
with an odd amount of honesty. It has a drain.

1052
00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:47.059
It has a toilet. It has a sink. It has

1053
00:54:47.099 --> 00:54:48.800
a way for her to get a little bit of food.

1054
00:54:50.150 --> 00:54:54.389
It has ventilation so she can breathe, which is terrifying

1055
00:54:55.090 --> 00:54:58.940
because it means that he wants it to legitimately be

1056
00:54:59.139 --> 00:55:02.719
livable until he decides you're dead. Yeah, until it's not.

1057
00:55:02.860 --> 00:55:05.559
Then it can fill with water. Yeah. And I think

1058
00:55:05.579 --> 00:55:08.130
that's actually scarier. Like, I think it would be less

1059
00:55:08.170 --> 00:55:09.309
scary if he's like, it's just a box you're going

1060
00:55:09.329 --> 00:55:11.789
to die in. So, like, the air is going to

1061
00:55:11.809 --> 00:55:12.349
get pretty thin.

1062
00:55:12.369 --> 00:55:12.769
Oh, yeah.

1063
00:55:12.809 --> 00:55:14.909
You know, shrug. Yeah, yeah. But no, it's like this

1064
00:55:14.969 --> 00:55:16.889
is built so you could stay in here for months.

1065
00:55:16.929 --> 00:55:20.389
There's a shower. You know, there's everything you need to

1066
00:55:20.449 --> 00:55:23.889
be okay. A bed. Like, I think that's scarier.

1067
00:55:24.110 --> 00:55:28.320
It absolutely. Because it shows the level of planning and awareness.

1068
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:33.360
And the opposite as well. The level of planning and awareness,

1069
00:55:33.380 --> 00:55:37.989
but also how far compartmentalized his brain is. Oh, yeah.

1070
00:55:38.010 --> 00:55:40.170
They're just going to die in there. But it's like, no,

1071
00:55:40.289 --> 00:55:41.969
but the whole point of why I can do this

1072
00:55:42.030 --> 00:55:43.750
is because they're not going to die, but then they die.

1073
00:55:43.789 --> 00:55:46.530
But it's not really me. It's just a timer I set,

1074
00:55:46.550 --> 00:55:50.809
which isn't me. That's what makes that's because that's insanity. Well, yeah.

1075
00:55:50.869 --> 00:55:53.630
And they go into that level of insanity, that level

1076
00:55:53.670 --> 00:55:56.969
of psychosis toward the climax of the film when he

1077
00:55:57.050 --> 00:56:02.500
explains the first time he drowned something that it was

1078
00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:05.659
the first time it was an act of mercy. And

1079
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.699
so there is that level of separation. But to him,

1080
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:13.019
death is purity, which, again, is really insane.

1081
00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:13.780
So it's like.

1082
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:16.639
It feeds into it like this whole thing.

1083
00:56:16.739 --> 00:56:21.739
And it's tied to his abusive dad who very abusively

1084
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:26.579
in his way of doing it baptized him. So I

1085
00:56:26.619 --> 00:56:31.349
think that might be where he got the cleansing concept. Yeah. So,

1086
00:56:32.250 --> 00:56:35.230
you know, the layers upon layers make make for a

1087
00:56:35.289 --> 00:56:39.300
tasty onion in this in this movie. But I'm sorry,

1088
00:56:39.539 --> 00:56:41.619
I got stuck in the weeds because I just kept

1089
00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:43.760
thinking about the amount of effort to make it a

1090
00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:47.599
real livable space when you're just going to kill them.

1091
00:56:48.199 --> 00:56:51.690
It's just a level of cuckoo bananas that we can't

1092
00:56:51.829 --> 00:56:54.349
actually sit in and really get.

1093
00:56:54.809 --> 00:56:54.949
Right.

1094
00:56:54.989 --> 00:56:56.590
And that makes me so scared.

1095
00:56:56.849 --> 00:56:57.369
Yeah.

1096
00:56:57.409 --> 00:56:59.889
There are elements of compulsion I can at least get,

1097
00:57:00.690 --> 00:57:03.250
but I don't get that. If I'm like, I'm not

1098
00:57:03.269 --> 00:57:05.670
going to eat potato chips anymore because I've gained too

1099
00:57:05.690 --> 00:57:09.050
much weight, I don't come up with an elaborate... Thing

1100
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:13.980
that makes me honest while also dishonest at the same time.

1101
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:14.960
That's insane.

1102
00:57:15.059 --> 00:57:15.380
It is.

1103
00:57:15.460 --> 00:57:18.559
It's just truly crazy. Sorry. And I guess I really

1104
00:57:18.579 --> 00:57:19.860
just want to say, like, what great writing.

1105
00:57:20.260 --> 00:57:21.039
Oh, absolutely.

1106
00:57:21.059 --> 00:57:21.340
Yeah.

1107
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.440
No, because there's I mean, there's a lot that is

1108
00:57:25.780 --> 00:57:31.659
spelled out. But the all the information that we get about,

1109
00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:34.869
you know, the construction of the cell that Carl keeps

1110
00:57:34.909 --> 00:57:38.829
his victims in, how long he's been doing this. The

1111
00:57:38.949 --> 00:57:42.630
process that he uses after, we all get that kind of, like,

1112
00:57:42.730 --> 00:57:49.489
secondhand just hints throughout the movie. And going back to

1113
00:57:49.530 --> 00:57:52.480
what you're saying, like, I feel like that's even scarier

1114
00:57:52.500 --> 00:57:55.920
than having this whole exposition of, well, the first time

1115
00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:58.559
he killed was this time, and then, you know, this

1116
00:57:58.619 --> 00:58:00.480
is how he does it. It's like, no, you have to, like,

1117
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:03.780
piece it together yourself in much the same way that

1118
00:58:03.820 --> 00:58:04.619
Julia does.

1119
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:04.989
Mm-hmm.

1120
00:58:05.329 --> 00:58:11.389
Because she's learning about this process via demonstration.

1121
00:58:12.110 --> 00:58:16.070
Yes. Quite realistically. Yes.

1122
00:58:16.289 --> 00:58:19.760
But again, she is not passive. So she finds a

1123
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:25.860
way to at least continue surviving until help does arrive.

1124
00:58:26.659 --> 00:58:29.639
And I really like that because, you know, I feel

1125
00:58:29.659 --> 00:58:35.010
like sometimes it's tempting to To, you know, just use

1126
00:58:35.070 --> 00:58:37.889
victims as like just a means to the end of

1127
00:58:37.929 --> 00:58:40.690
the story. But with this, I feel like, no, Julia

1128
00:58:40.750 --> 00:58:43.409
has her own arc in this.

1129
00:58:43.590 --> 00:58:44.070
She does.

1130
00:58:44.150 --> 00:58:44.670
I love that.

1131
00:58:44.969 --> 00:58:48.210
And the fact that due to her not being a

1132
00:58:48.369 --> 00:58:51.369
main character, like a main, main character, there's definitely three

1133
00:58:51.409 --> 00:58:54.570
main characters in this film. The fact that we would

1134
00:58:54.610 --> 00:58:58.150
like be not with her and then come back and

1135
00:58:58.269 --> 00:59:02.809
she's done stuff, it gives her a dimension. And, but

1136
00:59:02.849 --> 00:59:06.639
this is the thing. This is the cruelty though. The

1137
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:11.409
fact that she is so smart and that she is

1138
00:59:11.550 --> 00:59:16.610
figuring out how to breathe through one little pipe a

1139
00:59:16.659 --> 00:59:20.019
little while longer, which she couldn't sustain forever. Right, right.

1140
00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:24.059
All of those elements are great, but they make her

1141
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:29.400
more believable, which makes it more heartbreaking if she dies.

1142
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:29.820
Mm-hmm.

1143
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:33.480
And that's kind of where it gets cruel, though, is

1144
00:59:33.500 --> 00:59:35.480
when you mentioned the idea of it just being a

1145
00:59:35.619 --> 00:59:37.300
means to an end. Not just, but being a means

1146
00:59:37.340 --> 00:59:38.510
to an end. Because we don't want to say just,

1147
00:59:38.530 --> 00:59:43.090
because everything that's in a movie is a storytelling mechanism. Yeah.

1148
00:59:43.130 --> 00:59:46.650
Because it's a storytelling exercise, is making a movie. I remember,

1149
00:59:46.670 --> 00:59:49.190
because this was about sexual violence. I had a conversation

1150
00:59:49.219 --> 00:59:50.429
with somebody years and years ago. They were like, I

1151
00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:52.940
hate the idea that it's just a storytelling mechanism. And

1152
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.539
I was like, but everything that happens in the movie

1153
00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:56.860
is a storytelling mechanism.

1154
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:58.039
Because it's just a story.

1155
00:59:58.059 --> 00:59:58.139
Yeah.

1156
00:59:58.650 --> 01:00:00.150
It would be worse if you put some kind of

1157
01:00:00.190 --> 01:00:01.869
sexual violence in a movie and it had nothing to

1158
01:00:01.889 --> 01:00:06.389
do with anything. It didn't affect anything. That's bad. That's

1159
01:00:06.409 --> 01:00:10.039
just exploitation. But if it pushes the story along or

1160
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:13.760
if it causes the climax or if it causes the

1161
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:17.159
resolution or if it causes the main character to finally

1162
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:20.340
become a part of the story we're seeing to become

1163
01:00:20.380 --> 01:00:24.860
the protagonist fully. That's, that makes it matter. But if

1164
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:27.389
it just happens and then nothing else happens, it's like, uh,

1165
01:00:27.500 --> 01:00:29.260
I guess at least it's not a story point. It's

1166
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:33.679
stupidest criticism I'd ever heard. But not, you didn't say it.

1167
01:00:33.900 --> 01:00:36.300
No, but you can pretend I did though, if that

1168
01:00:36.340 --> 01:00:36.659
makes sense.

1169
01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:38.119
Oh, as a little treat for myself?

1170
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:38.420
Yeah.

1171
01:00:38.579 --> 01:00:41.380
Well, speaking of treats for ourselves, we'll, uh, we'll be

1172
01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:44.860
diving deeper into some, uh, other cells, which at some

1173
01:00:44.909 --> 01:00:47.789
point we're going to have to have a knockdown drag

1174
01:00:47.849 --> 01:00:50.989
out of how many cells are there? Oh God. Not

1175
01:00:51.030 --> 01:00:53.460
yet though. That's coming later toward the end of the show.

1176
01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:54.519
But we'll be back.

1177
01:01:06.550 --> 01:01:11.679
So the the scenes with Julia give this really great

1178
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:17.219
juxtaposition because she is so, you know, she's so rooted

1179
01:01:17.340 --> 01:01:21.380
in reality, not just because she's the one stuck in

1180
01:01:21.420 --> 01:01:24.329
the cell but she's the one you know like who

1181
01:01:24.389 --> 01:01:27.050
has the most agency to like do the most in

1182
01:01:27.070 --> 01:01:29.929
the moment because they're all stuck just trying to get

1183
01:01:29.969 --> 01:01:34.989
information on where she is but it's a beautiful juxtaposition

1184
01:01:35.050 --> 01:01:37.840
because you've got her scenes and then you've got the

1185
01:01:38.619 --> 01:01:44.599
scenes with Vince Vaughn's character and Jennifer Lopez's character when

1186
01:01:44.619 --> 01:01:52.190
they're in Carl's mind and it's all like giant staircases

1187
01:01:52.329 --> 01:01:57.210
leading up into the sky and like a really long

1188
01:01:57.309 --> 01:02:00.420
hallway full of clocks. And there's a horse that gets,

1189
01:02:00.460 --> 01:02:04.320
you know, sliced into all of those different sections.

1190
01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:07.659
Yeah. Right from the get go, we get that like

1191
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:11.139
shocking little bit of 2000 CGI horror.

1192
01:02:11.760 --> 01:02:15.059
Which is even creepier because it's early 2000 CGI.

1193
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:16.400
You're goddamn right it is.

1194
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.860
But it, that was also a really great scene because

1195
01:02:19.909 --> 01:02:23.969
it kind of, it shows that while Carl is an

1196
01:02:25.190 --> 01:02:29.829
absolute monster, that's not all there is to him. There

1197
01:02:29.929 --> 01:02:34.269
is that child Carl because child Carl sees that she's

1198
01:02:34.289 --> 01:02:35.929
going to get sliced up just like the horse. He

1199
01:02:35.969 --> 01:02:38.590
pushes her out of the way and saves her. We

1200
01:02:38.630 --> 01:02:42.420
kind of learn, you know, a little bit about him,

1201
01:02:42.500 --> 01:02:47.239
that there is something there that does care. It's just like,

1202
01:02:48.070 --> 01:02:52.090
small and stunted and it's scared and lost and trapped

1203
01:02:52.190 --> 01:02:56.239
and trapped in his mind um but there's there's other

1204
01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:01.059
scenes where we meet the the god king carl and

1205
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:06.079
um you know he's in these giant uh you know

1206
01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:12.559
like marble palace with like these huge um columns and

1207
01:03:12.619 --> 01:03:19.380
he's got a a long uh billowing cloak that's tied

1208
01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:20.760
to his back with hooks.

1209
01:03:21.780 --> 01:03:31.889
And I like how lots of the gruesome realities are motifs. Yeah.

1210
01:03:32.090 --> 01:03:35.369
In the inside their mind. So like the hooks are

1211
01:03:35.389 --> 01:03:38.730
a motif, but in reality they're just these metal things

1212
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:42.579
jabbed into flesh. I think that stuff is really, really fascinating.

1213
01:03:42.900 --> 01:03:43.119
It is.

1214
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:46.980
And there's, you know, obviously the motif of water. The

1215
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.420
first time that Catherine goes into Carl's mind, she's kind

1216
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:57.230
of like ushered in through a series of visions and

1217
01:03:57.349 --> 01:04:02.650
images involving water. So Carl's baptism slash drowning or his

1218
01:04:02.710 --> 01:04:06.800
dog shaking water in super slow-mo, shaking water off of

1219
01:04:06.860 --> 01:04:09.000
its back. Or, you know, she comes out of a

1220
01:04:09.059 --> 01:04:13.860
sewer when she initially erupts into his mind. So there's

1221
01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:17.369
a lot of symbology involved. And we start to learn

1222
01:04:17.650 --> 01:04:20.889
that that's like the big, that's kind of the big

1223
01:04:20.989 --> 01:04:25.099
issue is they are on a clue finding mission. How

1224
01:04:25.139 --> 01:04:28.019
do you find clues when literally everything is a symbol?

1225
01:04:28.340 --> 01:04:28.619
Yeah.

1226
01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:31.380
And, and one element, and I'm going to warn you

1227
01:04:31.619 --> 01:04:35.360
right now that I have like a lot, I I've,

1228
01:04:36.190 --> 01:04:38.289
I've been stewing on this for a little while. Um,

1229
01:04:39.579 --> 01:04:41.679
But I have a lot of thoughts and opinions and

1230
01:04:41.780 --> 01:04:45.300
theory and alternate theories about what things could mean in

1231
01:04:45.340 --> 01:04:48.369
this movie. Once we're talking about the once we're talking

1232
01:04:48.389 --> 01:04:50.269
about it's over and we're just talking about the whole

1233
01:04:50.309 --> 01:04:51.429
thing is a one big piece.

1234
01:04:51.730 --> 01:04:51.929
Yeah.

1235
01:04:51.989 --> 01:04:54.309
I have a lot of thoughts. Okay. I'm just warning

1236
01:04:54.329 --> 01:04:56.289
you now because it's going to get it's going to

1237
01:04:56.309 --> 01:04:59.840
get brutal. But I actually love this movie. I and

1238
01:04:59.860 --> 01:05:02.199
I don't think that any of the interpretations I got

1239
01:05:02.260 --> 01:05:03.400
from it are bad.

1240
01:05:03.969 --> 01:05:04.250
Yeah.

1241
01:05:04.329 --> 01:05:06.650
Like or make the movie not good. It's just that

1242
01:05:06.710 --> 01:05:09.789
like I think there is a very positive way to

1243
01:05:09.829 --> 01:05:14.539
understand the end. And there is a very soul crushing

1244
01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.539
way to understand the way this movie ends. I believe that.

1245
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:19.380
And I think they're all probably true.

1246
01:05:19.739 --> 01:05:22.659
I'm curious because I mostly just got the positive.

1247
01:05:22.860 --> 01:05:26.150
Oh, well, we'll get to that. I figure we'll we

1248
01:05:26.170 --> 01:05:27.969
want to let's get through the other stuff because once

1249
01:05:28.010 --> 01:05:30.670
we've once we've finished talking about the pieces we like.

1250
01:05:31.449 --> 01:05:33.170
then we can judge the whole piece.

1251
01:05:33.409 --> 01:05:33.789
Okay.

1252
01:05:34.570 --> 01:05:37.690
But one thing I wanted to mention about his world

1253
01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:45.679
being so confusing and chaotic, in a way you could

1254
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.980
read that as, oh, well, everybody's mind is kind of different.

1255
01:05:51.019 --> 01:05:52.980
It's kind of what it's been built around. And obviously

1256
01:05:53.019 --> 01:05:57.170
his mind has been built around horrific shit. Or you

1257
01:05:57.190 --> 01:06:00.699
could look at it as, your sanity is holding you

1258
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:06.340
back from understanding what you're seeing. You just made the

1259
01:06:06.510 --> 01:06:11.349
perfect Bugs Bunny face when he's not sure if he

1260
01:06:11.389 --> 01:06:13.730
believes that or not, where your lower lip got really

1261
01:06:13.769 --> 01:06:16.329
low and your upper lip followed it. That was really funny.

1262
01:06:17.190 --> 01:06:18.150
I wish you all could have seen that.

1263
01:06:18.170 --> 01:06:19.190
Lil Blank would be proud.

1264
01:06:19.349 --> 01:06:22.050
Damn right. But that's one thing I thought about too,

1265
01:06:22.090 --> 01:06:24.599
is maybe one of the reasons it comes off so

1266
01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:29.619
like that is because sanity holds you back from following

1267
01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:32.769
his lead. But I'm not a hundred percent that I

1268
01:06:32.809 --> 01:06:35.050
believe that. Cause like the kids world is a bit

1269
01:06:35.510 --> 01:06:37.809
dramatic too, but it's not nearly as confusing.

1270
01:06:38.090 --> 01:06:38.309
No.

1271
01:06:38.869 --> 01:06:42.929
But then also with his desire for control and his

1272
01:06:42.989 --> 01:06:46.150
desire to be a God, you know, with the evil

1273
01:06:46.269 --> 01:06:49.670
King car, cause he has, he actually calls himself, um, Oh,

1274
01:06:49.769 --> 01:06:52.869
he calls himself, uh, uh, King Starger.

1275
01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:54.360
Yeah.

1276
01:06:54.449 --> 01:06:57.550
Yeah. But I like calling him just like, you know,

1277
01:06:58.949 --> 01:07:03.730
Lizard Queen Carl or whatever. But there is an element

1278
01:07:03.750 --> 01:07:09.690
where it's like he's presenting his, it's like he's presenting

1279
01:07:09.809 --> 01:07:13.469
the hideousness in the way that he believes it should

1280
01:07:13.510 --> 01:07:16.030
be perceived because he relishes it.

1281
01:07:16.349 --> 01:07:16.909
Yeah.

1282
01:07:16.929 --> 01:07:21.469
So to him, you know, my creation is beautiful and

1283
01:07:21.550 --> 01:07:24.639
complex and interesting and da da da da da. And

1284
01:07:24.659 --> 01:07:26.639
it's like, dude, you live in a one bedroom apartment.

1285
01:07:26.659 --> 01:07:29.030
You never wash your hair and you frigging murder people.

1286
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:33.349
You are not a king. I mean, okay. Kings didn't

1287
01:07:33.389 --> 01:07:36.150
bathe a lot, but otherwise that's really all you have

1288
01:07:36.190 --> 01:07:36.650
in common.

1289
01:07:37.070 --> 01:07:37.389
That's it.

1290
01:07:37.570 --> 01:07:41.769
Yeah. So that's, you know, and also a side note,

1291
01:07:42.150 --> 01:07:45.210
the fact that he had an aquaphobic reaction of some

1292
01:07:45.250 --> 01:07:46.989
sort that made him almost drown in the bathtub is

1293
01:07:47.030 --> 01:07:47.969
also just a great touch.

1294
01:07:48.289 --> 01:07:48.570
Yeah.

1295
01:07:49.300 --> 01:07:51.639
I just side thing. Like, that's also a great touch.

1296
01:07:51.659 --> 01:07:53.380
He was like going to drown in the bathtub after

1297
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:55.679
all of the stuff we learned about his psyche and

1298
01:07:55.780 --> 01:07:59.809
water and baptism and mercy killing and all this stuff.

1299
01:07:59.869 --> 01:08:02.710
And then it's like, Oh, Oh, there it is.

1300
01:08:02.769 --> 01:08:03.030
Yeah.

1301
01:08:03.409 --> 01:08:07.550
And to go deeper about his God complex, you know,

1302
01:08:07.590 --> 01:08:10.639
because of the drowning, the little bird to show kindness.

1303
01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:15.179
And then his father basically like baptizing him too hard.

1304
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:16.939
I don't know how else to put it. So he

1305
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:19.810
started to actually drown because his dad, was an angry, drunk,

1306
01:08:19.930 --> 01:08:22.430
mean guy. And to him, he was like, he needs

1307
01:08:22.489 --> 01:08:24.210
a lot of it because he's not a good son

1308
01:08:24.270 --> 01:08:26.029
or whatever. It's kind of, that's kind of the vibe.

1309
01:08:26.090 --> 01:08:26.369
Yeah.

1310
01:08:26.770 --> 01:08:28.670
So he held him down too long and it scared him.

1311
01:08:28.909 --> 01:08:30.689
I almost, well, I didn't almost, I drowned when I

1312
01:08:30.710 --> 01:08:31.170
was a kid.

1313
01:08:31.890 --> 01:08:32.430
Twice. Wasn't it?

1314
01:08:32.449 --> 01:08:33.760
I was going to say it was more than once.

1315
01:08:33.779 --> 01:08:34.039
Twice.

1316
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:34.260
Yeah.

1317
01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:37.319
And it's funny because when you tell people like that,

1318
01:08:37.340 --> 01:08:39.119
I'm like drowning just means that like you fall in

1319
01:08:39.140 --> 01:08:40.880
the water and you couldn't get yourself out and you

1320
01:08:40.899 --> 01:08:43.180
started breathing in water. Like it doesn't mean you die.

1321
01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:46.689
You can drown or you can drown.

1322
01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:49.199
Yeah, you can drown to death.

1323
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:49.600
Yes.

1324
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:50.720
That's not the same as just drowning.

1325
01:08:50.739 --> 01:08:52.699
You can do many things to death if you're dedicated enough.

1326
01:08:52.739 --> 01:08:54.479
That's why I'm not allowed at Denny's anymore.

1327
01:08:55.229 --> 01:08:56.649
Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.

1328
01:08:56.670 --> 01:09:03.159
But, but, but. if you think about him as a god,

1329
01:09:04.100 --> 01:09:09.039
the idea that drowning is mercy and cleansing and da-da-da-da,

1330
01:09:10.010 --> 01:09:13.569
he can look at the world, the world he didn't create,

1331
01:09:13.789 --> 01:09:17.760
the world that's so imperfect and so... dirty and all

1332
01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:21.060
these things that are bad and, and really believe that

1333
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:24.130
he is saving people.

1334
01:09:24.649 --> 01:09:24.869
Yeah.

1335
01:09:25.369 --> 01:09:28.850
By killing them, preserving them and moving on. Now, obviously

1336
01:09:28.890 --> 01:09:31.909
it's deeply perverted. It's not real. I mean, he's, he's

1337
01:09:31.949 --> 01:09:34.149
made that up in a, in one of the many

1338
01:09:34.180 --> 01:09:35.779
compartments of his brain so that he can do what

1339
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:38.220
he wants to do. Right. But I think that once

1340
01:09:38.260 --> 01:09:39.899
you look in his mind and this whole thing where

1341
01:09:39.939 --> 01:09:44.569
he's just this decadent, brilliant artistic leader who, It shows

1342
01:09:44.609 --> 01:09:48.020
you the reality that he actually is, that actually is

1343
01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:50.779
the way the world he created and it's beautiful and it's,

1344
01:09:51.340 --> 01:09:53.720
you know, all these things at first. Uh, but with

1345
01:09:53.779 --> 01:09:57.340
a tinge of all the awful stuff, I just think

1346
01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:01.210
that's a really interesting element to consider that he could

1347
01:10:01.390 --> 01:10:04.529
very easily be like, no, I'm saving these people. This

1348
01:10:04.609 --> 01:10:08.369
is my duty is drowning these women so that they

1349
01:10:08.409 --> 01:10:10.850
don't have to be in this imperfect world.

1350
01:10:11.149 --> 01:10:11.329
Mm-hmm.

1351
01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:15.439
Yeah, that's, no, I think that was definitely in there.

1352
01:10:15.470 --> 01:10:15.970
Yeah.

1353
01:10:16.050 --> 01:10:19.130
Kind of like the reasoning behind what he was doing.

1354
01:10:19.149 --> 01:10:26.229
And there's a really interesting scene where Catherine confronts Carl.

1355
01:10:26.350 --> 01:10:29.420
It's an adult Carl, but he's not in his like

1356
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:34.140
God form. And I found that scene really interesting because

1357
01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:37.420
of how vulnerable he was with her in that moment.

1358
01:10:37.779 --> 01:10:37.979
Yeah.

1359
01:10:38.659 --> 01:10:40.800
It's one of the few times where he was so

1360
01:10:40.899 --> 01:10:43.970
vulnerable with her, but not as a child.

1361
01:10:44.770 --> 01:10:46.159
Okay. Yeah, I see that for sure.

1362
01:10:46.569 --> 01:10:51.229
But there is still that, you know, that evil brokenness

1363
01:10:51.670 --> 01:10:55.189
of like, yeah, this all happened to me. Therefore, that's

1364
01:10:55.289 --> 01:10:58.090
why I'm the one who has to cleanse these women

1365
01:10:58.350 --> 01:11:02.550
or that. Therefore, I'm the one who has to do

1366
01:11:02.670 --> 01:11:03.149
all this.

1367
01:11:03.529 --> 01:11:07.829
Yeah. And that, I mean, there's so many layers of dark.

1368
01:11:08.890 --> 01:11:12.149
you know, subtext. I mean, but, but I feel like,

1369
01:11:13.210 --> 01:11:14.609
and this is not like, I think this is a

1370
01:11:14.649 --> 01:11:19.369
common interpretation. The cells real challenge to the audience is, um,

1371
01:11:20.210 --> 01:11:26.680
whether understanding how, uh, a heinous creature, uh, was created is,

1372
01:11:27.619 --> 01:11:31.420
is like the same thing as forgiving them. Exactly. And

1373
01:11:31.439 --> 01:11:35.100
I think that that's a legitimate question in life. Um, and,

1374
01:11:35.319 --> 01:11:37.170
and I think that that's a, and that's why I

1375
01:11:37.210 --> 01:11:38.789
think like, uh, when we get into it, I have

1376
01:11:38.810 --> 01:11:42.270
so many challenging interpretations and we'll, we'll, we'll get there

1377
01:11:42.310 --> 01:11:44.949
soon enough. But first you gotta, you gotta eat your

1378
01:11:44.970 --> 01:11:59.100
vegetables before you can have some more cake. In reference

1379
01:11:59.180 --> 01:12:01.600
to the whole idea of like, if you understand a monster,

1380
01:12:01.640 --> 01:12:04.819
does that allow you to forgive a monster? And, and,

1381
01:12:04.939 --> 01:12:07.869
and the whole concept of forgiveness is a super, I

1382
01:12:07.890 --> 01:12:10.569
would say it's a pretty deep concept. I mean, but

1383
01:12:10.710 --> 01:12:16.210
only like a billion people in certain religions have been

1384
01:12:16.310 --> 01:12:18.899
working on that problem forever, basically.

1385
01:12:19.300 --> 01:12:20.319
Since we've been human.

1386
01:12:20.380 --> 01:12:26.020
Yeah, yeah. But we get, this is actually my favorite

1387
01:12:26.039 --> 01:12:29.510
part of the movie, although I feel like it's obvious

1388
01:12:29.689 --> 01:12:35.090
that it's coming. Eventually, Catherine is stuck in there. Because

1389
01:12:35.149 --> 01:12:37.949
one of the problems is if you forget it's not real,

1390
01:12:38.229 --> 01:12:39.289
then you can't leave.

1391
01:12:39.310 --> 01:12:40.010
Yeah.

1392
01:12:40.810 --> 01:12:43.489
Which, of course, in sci-fi, there's always some fun, weird

1393
01:12:43.529 --> 01:12:48.520
rule like that. If you forget who you are, then

1394
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:52.840
you can't leave. And as we see, but the scientists

1395
01:12:52.859 --> 01:12:56.640
can't see, Carl has made her convinced she's a part

1396
01:12:56.659 --> 01:13:00.000
of his creation. So now she can't really leave. So

1397
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:05.220
we got to send frigging... unwashed, doesn't-go-home Vince Vaughn into

1398
01:13:05.239 --> 01:13:08.600
the dream world without any training or preparation, we have to.

1399
01:13:08.619 --> 01:13:09.619
That's what you do.

1400
01:13:09.699 --> 01:13:13.600
Because if they didn't, we riot, damn it. No, because

1401
01:13:13.619 --> 01:13:15.199
we want that. I just spent all that time setting

1402
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.810
up how Vince Vaughn is kind of the grounding element

1403
01:13:19.010 --> 01:13:21.770
of the film. Yeah. So throwing him into there is

1404
01:13:21.789 --> 01:13:26.289
like a no-brainer. You gotta do it. Hope you don't

1405
01:13:26.350 --> 01:13:27.149
mind the puns.

1406
01:13:27.449 --> 01:13:28.010
Oh my god.

1407
01:13:28.029 --> 01:13:28.529
Yeah.

1408
01:13:30.829 --> 01:13:35.529
I lobe a good pun. Okay. I, I, I, I

1409
01:13:35.590 --> 01:13:38.420
couldn't think of another one in time. Okay. So if I,

1410
01:13:38.579 --> 01:13:40.020
if I missed the six second thing, I have to

1411
01:13:40.060 --> 01:13:44.039
move on. So, but so he decides he's going to

1412
01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:45.340
go in there cause he's going to try and pull

1413
01:13:45.380 --> 01:13:47.800
her out for the combination of, he has gotten to

1414
01:13:47.859 --> 01:13:52.989
know her. They are not particularly love interests to each other.

1415
01:13:53.050 --> 01:13:54.789
Although I think they did have a little chemistry.

1416
01:13:55.529 --> 01:13:57.949
They did, but it seemed more like to me, it

1417
01:13:58.010 --> 01:14:00.789
seemed more like, um, Mutual respect.

1418
01:14:01.689 --> 01:14:02.430
Well, eventually.

1419
01:14:02.449 --> 01:14:02.789
Eventually.

1420
01:14:02.810 --> 01:14:05.470
Because at first he thinks she's just a quack. Oh, absolutely.

1421
01:14:05.489 --> 01:14:06.689
A hundred percent.

1422
01:14:06.930 --> 01:14:10.130
And it's not even anything against her or against the sciences.

1423
01:14:10.210 --> 01:14:13.350
It's that he's like, if you guys, if this is quackery,

1424
01:14:13.380 --> 01:14:16.000
if this is like self-flagellation and you guys are just

1425
01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:18.260
hopeful that it's working, you're wasting our time and this

1426
01:14:18.300 --> 01:14:20.180
girl is going to die. Yeah. You know, he's like,

1427
01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:23.260
this isn't, you know, oh, little Billy needs to understand

1428
01:14:23.300 --> 01:14:25.720
that he shouldn't cry when he sees a blue dinosaur. It's...

1429
01:14:26.619 --> 01:14:27.279
it's for real.

1430
01:14:27.319 --> 01:14:27.420
Yeah.

1431
01:14:27.439 --> 01:14:28.300
This is real life guys.

1432
01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:30.699
That's his attitude. And she's like, um, I mean, no,

1433
01:14:30.739 --> 01:14:32.390
it's real. Like I'm in their minds and he's like,

1434
01:14:32.399 --> 01:14:33.520
I don't know what that means. So I'm just going

1435
01:14:33.550 --> 01:14:36.390
to keep telling you, don't lie. Don't waste my time.

1436
01:14:36.409 --> 01:14:38.670
You know, he basically just says, don't waste my time

1437
01:14:38.710 --> 01:14:40.550
over and over until he starts to realize she's legitimate

1438
01:14:40.649 --> 01:14:42.689
and they get to know each other. And that's why

1439
01:14:42.729 --> 01:14:44.069
I'm saying like, it kind of felt like they had

1440
01:14:44.090 --> 01:14:45.750
a little bit of a chemistry thing going, but it

1441
01:14:45.789 --> 01:14:48.210
wasn't like, it wasn't even as deep as like a will.

1442
01:14:48.229 --> 01:14:50.430
They won't. They, it just started to be like, Oh,

1443
01:14:50.449 --> 01:14:52.329
they're becoming fond of each other and they're starting to

1444
01:14:52.369 --> 01:14:55.149
understand each other and they're bonding over trauma and stuff. Um,

1445
01:14:55.529 --> 01:14:57.729
Which they didn't even realize how much trauma they'd get

1446
01:14:57.750 --> 01:15:04.840
to bond over after this whole event. But I love that.

1447
01:15:04.939 --> 01:15:06.760
But that makes bigger impetus that he has to go

1448
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:09.020
in there and help her because he believes that she

1449
01:15:09.140 --> 01:15:12.720
is good and that she wouldn't stay in there unless

1450
01:15:12.779 --> 01:15:15.119
she was in serious trouble. She would be doing everything

1451
01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:20.239
she could to help Julia. So he goes in. Somehow

1452
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.170
they had one of those weird suits that fit him.

1453
01:15:24.569 --> 01:15:26.619
Scientists are also really good seamstresses.

1454
01:15:27.180 --> 01:15:31.680
I believe that. So he goes in and, you know,

1455
01:15:31.699 --> 01:15:34.779
immediately sees her all decked out in the, like, kabuki

1456
01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:39.939
style that is the little king monster guys.

1457
01:15:40.100 --> 01:15:43.520
And she's got, like, instead of having, like, the beautiful

1458
01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:50.000
white and flowing and gowns and feathers, it's spikes. and

1459
01:15:50.180 --> 01:15:53.680
red and skin tight and the one thing i really

1460
01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:58.020
liked is carl in real life when he's doing stuff

1461
01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:00.720
with his victims after he after they've died he puts

1462
01:16:00.779 --> 01:16:03.899
a collar on their neck and then takes it off

1463
01:16:03.939 --> 01:16:09.090
when he's done and part of how he traps katherine

1464
01:16:09.310 --> 01:16:11.850
is he manages to grab her and put that collar

1465
01:16:11.909 --> 01:16:14.050
on her neck so that's also part of her costume

1466
01:16:14.090 --> 01:16:16.390
now is she's got that collar and she's got like

1467
01:16:16.699 --> 01:16:20.260
you know, mask thing all over her face and weird makeup.

1468
01:16:20.760 --> 01:16:28.170
So again, I love how as her role in Carl's

1469
01:16:28.229 --> 01:16:30.390
mind changes, her outfit changes.

1470
01:16:30.449 --> 01:16:30.670
Yes.

1471
01:16:31.229 --> 01:16:34.630
Well, and I think that it's easy to overlook how

1472
01:16:34.789 --> 01:16:39.029
chilling the statement is that what gets you trapped in

1473
01:16:39.069 --> 01:16:42.279
there is forgetting it's not real. And the reason that's

1474
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:46.579
chilling to me is not... Because it's a scary, heinous world.

1475
01:16:46.619 --> 01:16:49.460
There's child abuse. There's all these horrible things. It's because

1476
01:16:49.899 --> 01:16:53.100
the world that you would suddenly lose the concept of

1477
01:16:53.359 --> 01:16:56.649
is a world where he is literally God, where Carl

1478
01:16:56.710 --> 01:16:57.510
is literally God.

1479
01:16:57.689 --> 01:16:57.970
Yeah.

1480
01:16:58.189 --> 01:17:00.649
That's what's terrifying. So in that moment, she literally is like,

1481
01:17:00.710 --> 01:17:04.069
I'm his creation because everything around me is his creation.

1482
01:17:04.289 --> 01:17:05.170
It just makes sense.

1483
01:17:05.310 --> 01:17:10.279
That's so chilling from the most base human intellectual level.

1484
01:17:11.149 --> 01:17:13.989
that you just know for, for a little while you

1485
01:17:14.029 --> 01:17:17.090
believed he was God. And it makes even more sense

1486
01:17:17.189 --> 01:17:20.420
because when Vaughn's character is like telling her, like, you're not,

1487
01:17:20.520 --> 01:17:22.380
you're this, because he starts telling her that, you know,

1488
01:17:22.420 --> 01:17:25.140
you're this, they're this, this, um, what he's doing is

1489
01:17:25.380 --> 01:17:27.960
defying the creator, which is making her realize, okay, so

1490
01:17:28.020 --> 01:17:31.300
everything around me isn't his creation. Am I his creation?

1491
01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:34.689
And then, and then he, throws at her the personal

1492
01:17:34.710 --> 01:17:36.569
information about, I think it was her sister. I feel bad.

1493
01:17:36.689 --> 01:17:37.109
I don't remember.

1494
01:17:37.220 --> 01:17:39.100
Either a younger sister or younger brother.

1495
01:17:39.119 --> 01:17:41.300
Yeah. It was a younger sibling had died and it

1496
01:17:41.340 --> 01:17:44.779
was horrible. And he throws that at her and that's

1497
01:17:44.819 --> 01:17:46.600
what kind of brings her back. And he, and he

1498
01:17:46.619 --> 01:17:48.380
even says, I'm sorry for this. And then he says

1499
01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:51.340
it to her, you know, like it's mean to, to

1500
01:17:51.439 --> 01:17:55.239
throw something like that in somebody's face. So I, you know, I,

1501
01:17:55.350 --> 01:17:57.390
I think that that whole element is great. And then,

1502
01:17:57.409 --> 01:18:00.149
you know, he's detormants Vaughn. He, he does the thing

1503
01:18:00.189 --> 01:18:03.340
where he's, um, winding his intestines out of his stomach,

1504
01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:06.779
which is like straight out of like, uh, or like

1505
01:18:06.819 --> 01:18:11.729
a Catholic, uh, uh, saint, um, uh, mural, you know,

1506
01:18:11.770 --> 01:18:13.529
how they, how they have those ones that are really

1507
01:18:13.909 --> 01:18:16.890
twisted because part of their sainthood is that they were, um,

1508
01:18:16.930 --> 01:18:20.090
they were, they were killed or tortured for their beliefs. Um,

1509
01:18:20.590 --> 01:18:22.289
which is, you know, so I get why it has

1510
01:18:22.329 --> 01:18:24.029
to be morbid to an extent. Cause like, no, we

1511
01:18:24.050 --> 01:18:26.090
don't look away from it. We look toward it and

1512
01:18:26.109 --> 01:18:28.390
say like, this is the reality of like faith. And

1513
01:18:28.409 --> 01:18:30.369
it's like, Ooh, you guys are fun at parties. I bet.

1514
01:18:31.920 --> 01:18:33.619
But I get it. I get where they're coming from

1515
01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:36.760
about it. But like, it's, it's, uh, it's just, I

1516
01:18:36.819 --> 01:18:38.819
love once he's in there and they're teaming up and

1517
01:18:38.850 --> 01:18:41.750
they're trying to figure this stuff out. Um, this is

1518
01:18:41.789 --> 01:18:44.989
where I think the movie really like shines the like

1519
01:18:45.189 --> 01:18:49.529
fun element where it stops being quite so nonstop cerebral

1520
01:18:49.550 --> 01:18:51.819
and painful. until we get to the end. And then

1521
01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:54.680
it gets right back to work on your old brain meats.

1522
01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:57.670
But this is one of my favorite parts, though, is

1523
01:18:57.689 --> 01:19:00.750
him saving her. It's so cool. But also he gets

1524
01:19:01.710 --> 01:19:05.390
a little win. Yeah. Yeah. which is also like kind

1525
01:19:05.430 --> 01:19:07.189
to a character cause he's tormented as hell.

1526
01:19:07.430 --> 01:19:08.050
I mean, yeah.

1527
01:19:08.310 --> 01:19:09.850
So it was nice that he gets a little win

1528
01:19:09.869 --> 01:19:12.130
of like, I've saved you at least for now, but

1529
01:19:12.189 --> 01:19:13.590
also like, we need to figure out that thing. So

1530
01:19:13.630 --> 01:19:15.470
I can save the other person. I originally started all

1531
01:19:15.510 --> 01:19:18.350
this to save. And also she's in danger because of him.

1532
01:19:18.390 --> 01:19:20.510
I mean, they showed up and like insisted cause it

1533
01:19:20.529 --> 01:19:24.659
was her call. If she would try. Yeah. She could

1534
01:19:24.680 --> 01:19:26.659
have said no and nobody could have forced anything.

1535
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:27.180
Yeah.

1536
01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:30.000
So it is Vaughn. So actually it makes it even

1537
01:19:30.039 --> 01:19:34.159
more tragic. It's his fault that she's like trapped in there. Trapped. Oh, sorry,

1538
01:19:34.199 --> 01:19:36.229
I get like chills about the thought trapped in a

1539
01:19:36.250 --> 01:19:39.789
world where a psychotic woman murderer who's psychosexual and completely

1540
01:19:39.829 --> 01:19:42.430
demented and twisted in every way, uh, being trapped in

1541
01:19:42.449 --> 01:19:44.829
a world where he's God, not trapped in a world

1542
01:19:44.850 --> 01:19:47.140
where he is in charge of you, not trapped in

1543
01:19:47.180 --> 01:19:49.180
a world where he's your boss or where he, you're,

1544
01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:52.359
you're in a box. He's literally God. And that's the

1545
01:19:52.399 --> 01:19:58.850
way you perceive him. Yeah. I feel gross. Yeah. Talking

1546
01:19:58.869 --> 01:20:02.550
about it. That's, that's what I love about, about, uh,

1547
01:20:02.710 --> 01:20:04.250
about like what we do on the show of like

1548
01:20:04.329 --> 01:20:06.609
about picking apart, like what makes things scary is because

1549
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:09.439
sometimes you don't realize, like, I didn't realize until we

1550
01:20:09.460 --> 01:20:11.699
started talking about it, just how scary it was. The

1551
01:20:11.739 --> 01:20:14.239
idea like, Oh, so if she doesn't understand, it's not real.

1552
01:20:14.260 --> 01:20:17.840
Then she thinks he's God. That's mortifying. I mean, that's like, yeah,

1553
01:20:17.859 --> 01:20:20.359
it's absolutely terrifying because not only because you can't even

1554
01:20:20.430 --> 01:20:22.689
imagine what it would be like to sincerely just believe

1555
01:20:22.710 --> 01:20:25.109
like that's God. That's my creator. The end.

1556
01:20:25.949 --> 01:20:26.130
Yeah.

1557
01:20:26.270 --> 01:20:27.390
I can't, I can't even deal with it.

1558
01:20:27.609 --> 01:20:29.899
Well, and the closest it can come to, and I'm, I'm,

1559
01:20:30.630 --> 01:20:33.260
I'm sure you've had the experience too, like when you're

1560
01:20:33.310 --> 01:20:36.760
in a dream and something happens and it just makes

1561
01:20:36.859 --> 01:20:38.920
sense in that moment in the dream.

1562
01:20:39.479 --> 01:20:40.199
Oh, constantly.

1563
01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:43.520
Or it's like, oh yeah, of course everybody wears bananas

1564
01:20:43.579 --> 01:20:45.229
on Tuesday. That's just the way it works.

1565
01:20:45.270 --> 01:20:47.529
It's just the logic makes the logic. And when you

1566
01:20:47.550 --> 01:20:50.550
wake up, it slowly fades, the logic fades. So then

1567
01:20:50.569 --> 01:20:51.850
when you're trying to describe it, you're like, I guess

1568
01:20:51.890 --> 01:20:55.289
this isn't actually funny because it doesn't make any sense.

1569
01:20:55.310 --> 01:20:57.479
Or at least the key part doesn't make any sense.

1570
01:20:57.810 --> 01:20:59.579
Cause it's like, yeah, I walked in and like the

1571
01:20:59.619 --> 01:21:00.979
two penguins are like, what are you doing here? And

1572
01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:02.840
I was like, I brought the cake. And then like,

1573
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:04.489
as you're halfway through, you're like, this is not funny. I,

1574
01:21:05.300 --> 01:21:06.260
but I woke up laughing.

1575
01:21:06.500 --> 01:21:07.640
Yeah. But it was hilarious then.

1576
01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:08.060
Yeah.

1577
01:21:08.420 --> 01:21:09.039
You had to be there.

1578
01:21:09.880 --> 01:21:13.279
So that's, that's really, yeah, that's very, very similar is

1579
01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:14.060
just that.

1580
01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:14.739
Oh yeah.

1581
01:21:14.779 --> 01:21:16.460
Of course it's the way, the way it's always been.

1582
01:21:16.500 --> 01:21:18.800
Cause that's how you believe it's always been.

1583
01:21:19.060 --> 01:21:19.279
Yes.

1584
01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:22.770
And I, I, I am with you. I love, um,

1585
01:21:23.590 --> 01:21:26.640
I love Vince Vaughn's character. Is his name Peter? think

1586
01:21:26.699 --> 01:21:31.840
so something like that I love him calling Catherine back

1587
01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:36.750
by sharing at first like sharing personal facts but then

1588
01:21:36.789 --> 01:21:41.210
like almost being mean and bringing something so personal that

1589
01:21:41.250 --> 01:21:46.569
it like violates the world that Carl had built for

1590
01:21:46.630 --> 01:21:48.430
her well.

1591
01:21:47.649 --> 01:21:50.770
And if you look at how they both handle their

1592
01:21:50.869 --> 01:21:53.619
trauma I And their trauma is not equal. And I

1593
01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:55.659
don't just mean, oh, like his thing was worse or

1594
01:21:55.699 --> 01:21:57.779
her thing was worse. I mean, her thing happened when

1595
01:21:57.819 --> 01:22:00.539
she was young and it was very close. His thing

1596
01:22:00.579 --> 01:22:03.560
happened when he was an adult and he could understand

1597
01:22:03.659 --> 01:22:08.060
consequences and things very clearly. Yeah. So they're very different traumas.

1598
01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:13.899
He ran toward that trauma as fast as you can

1599
01:22:14.060 --> 01:22:18.590
and is okay with it kind of destroying him as

1600
01:22:18.649 --> 01:22:22.020
long as he makes the inroads he wants. Uh-huh. And

1601
01:22:22.180 --> 01:22:27.359
she kind of power walked toward it, trying to build

1602
01:22:27.399 --> 01:22:30.060
herself and not in a selfish way, trying to build

1603
01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:33.520
her life and her, in her happy, you know, and

1604
01:22:33.579 --> 01:22:37.770
her existence around doing these good things. They're very, that's

1605
01:22:37.939 --> 01:22:41.449
a very different mentality. She has a much healthier potentially

1606
01:22:41.489 --> 01:22:44.149
until I start ripping apart everything about the movie in

1607
01:22:44.210 --> 01:22:47.770
a minute, but she had a much healthier mentality about

1608
01:22:47.810 --> 01:22:51.060
it in that way. But yeah, That's why he was

1609
01:22:51.109 --> 01:22:53.199
able to jump in there and get her the fuck out.

1610
01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:53.760
Yeah.

1611
01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:56.060
It's because he was like, I'm not like if I

1612
01:22:56.079 --> 01:22:57.439
have to do the hard thing, like she can hate

1613
01:22:57.479 --> 01:22:59.520
me forever as long as she's alive, because I'm already

1614
01:22:59.960 --> 01:23:02.539
kind of kind of a Christ complex, actually.

1615
01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:04.199
Oh, yeah.

1616
01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:06.039
I had never thought about that until just now, because

1617
01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:08.520
like she's got kind of the Virgin Mary thing. I mean,

1618
01:23:08.579 --> 01:23:12.819
they show it like how she sees herself as kind

1619
01:23:12.859 --> 01:23:13.600
of Virgin Mary.

1620
01:23:13.699 --> 01:23:14.300
Yeah.

1621
01:23:14.619 --> 01:23:17.350
And obviously, Carl sees as well as God. Well, he

1622
01:23:17.380 --> 01:23:19.239
definitely sees himself as a kind of as like the

1623
01:23:19.460 --> 01:23:22.359
as the lamb of God or something, because he definitely

1624
01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:24.939
is willing to sacrifice himself if it means that the

1625
01:23:25.060 --> 01:23:27.260
good that the salvation will come.

1626
01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:27.800
Yeah.

1627
01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:28.140
Wow.

1628
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:28.880
Yeah.

1629
01:23:28.939 --> 01:23:30.560
No, yeah, that's really good.

1630
01:23:30.619 --> 01:23:32.659
Well, I need a break. We have to take a

1631
01:23:32.659 --> 01:23:34.289
break because I'm going to get a nosebleed from all

1632
01:23:34.310 --> 01:23:36.470
this thinking. But we'll be right back after this.

1633
01:23:48.010 --> 01:23:50.930
So I find it interesting, first off, that Peter doesn't

1634
01:23:51.029 --> 01:23:55.739
necessarily save Catherine. He just empowers her to take action.

1635
01:23:57.819 --> 01:24:01.539
Yeah, but without his intervention, she wouldn't have snapped out

1636
01:24:01.579 --> 01:24:03.760
of it. At the end, they definitely save each other.

1637
01:24:03.819 --> 01:24:06.060
I mean, without a doubt, it's a team effort. I

1638
01:24:06.100 --> 01:24:08.829
just mean like in that moment. Because when they're putting

1639
01:24:08.850 --> 01:24:10.550
him in, they're like, we don't know if you're even

1640
01:24:10.989 --> 01:24:14.189
capable of having this procedure. Like, you could just die. Like,

1641
01:24:14.569 --> 01:24:17.630
we build these procedures based on the people. Yeah. So

1642
01:24:17.649 --> 01:24:19.130
that's the other reason, too, is, like, he could have

1643
01:24:19.149 --> 01:24:21.869
literally just died trying and not even got in there.

1644
01:24:21.930 --> 01:24:23.029
That's why I was saying, like, he has a little

1645
01:24:23.050 --> 01:24:25.069
bit of a sacrificial element to him.

1646
01:24:26.189 --> 01:24:29.449
So they rescue each other. They get to another area

1647
01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:33.930
in Carl's mind. And they see like this woman suspended

1648
01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:37.239
in a cube and there's a screen and child Carl

1649
01:24:37.310 --> 01:24:40.449
is there. And then Peter sees a symbol. He sees

1650
01:24:40.510 --> 01:24:45.569
something like an inscription on this lady's back. And he

1651
01:24:45.609 --> 01:24:49.970
remembers that he did see that same symbol when they

1652
01:24:49.989 --> 01:24:55.630
were in Carl's apartment. So this means they do have

1653
01:24:55.689 --> 01:24:59.829
finally some semblance of a clue, which is the whole

1654
01:24:59.890 --> 01:25:03.119
reason they were there. I mean, it's important to remember that, like,

1655
01:25:03.470 --> 01:25:06.949
they're there to save Julia. Catherine's been trying to work

1656
01:25:06.989 --> 01:25:09.989
with Carl so that she can get information from him.

1657
01:25:11.210 --> 01:25:13.069
But that takes a long time.

1658
01:25:13.949 --> 01:25:14.210
Yes.

1659
01:25:14.869 --> 01:25:15.829
Yes, a very long time.

1660
01:25:15.850 --> 01:25:17.630
And they don't have a lot of that.

1661
01:25:17.850 --> 01:25:18.029
No.

1662
01:25:18.409 --> 01:25:21.710
So once they get this clue, they're able to come

1663
01:25:21.750 --> 01:25:25.729
back to the real world. And Vince kind of explains, like,

1664
01:25:25.750 --> 01:25:29.770
you've got to look back at his apartment, find that symbol.

1665
01:25:30.229 --> 01:25:33.550
And they start like unraveling it. And now we've got

1666
01:25:34.090 --> 01:25:39.800
basically two racing clocks. We have Vince Vaughn's character racing

1667
01:25:39.909 --> 01:25:42.220
to get into a helicopter so that he can like

1668
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:51.079
find a title and follow that. Because again, Carl's a

1669
01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:54.920
great engineer. So he like was buying parts to build

1670
01:25:55.260 --> 01:26:00.380
the cell. So he's doing all that. while Catherine is

1671
01:26:00.600 --> 01:26:05.420
still trapped in Carl's mind, but now she's been able

1672
01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:11.590
to connect with child Carl. And so there's this moment

1673
01:26:11.619 --> 01:26:16.949
where she can kind of subdue the God King Carl

1674
01:26:17.149 --> 01:26:21.710
by getting child Carl to, like, commiserate with her. And

1675
01:26:21.729 --> 01:26:23.789
she almost treats him like she did in the beginning

1676
01:26:23.810 --> 01:26:26.449
with Edward, the little child, where she's able to, like,

1677
01:26:26.590 --> 01:26:30.470
get him to open up and talk about it. So they,

1678
01:26:30.670 --> 01:26:34.130
they do manage to find Julia as like, like you said,

1679
01:26:34.189 --> 01:26:36.340
she found a pipe to breathe out of, but she

1680
01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:39.079
is fully submerged. Like that, that cell is full of

1681
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:43.020
water and Vince Vaughn finds her and he like finds

1682
01:26:43.060 --> 01:26:47.479
a sledgehammer and like breaks the plexiglass.

1683
01:26:47.579 --> 01:26:48.659
He shoots it first.

1684
01:26:48.819 --> 01:26:49.319
Oh yeah.

1685
01:26:49.350 --> 01:26:49.550
Yeah.

1686
01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:53.050
But then that just weakens it enough, but, but not

1687
01:26:53.090 --> 01:26:54.310
enough for it to break. So then he has to

1688
01:26:54.350 --> 01:26:57.210
hit it with something. It's a really great sequence. Great suspense.

1689
01:26:57.229 --> 01:26:57.369
Yeah.

1690
01:26:57.779 --> 01:27:01.079
Because even though he's there, it's like you still got

1691
01:27:01.100 --> 01:27:02.640
to get her out of there. And then the water

1692
01:27:03.159 --> 01:27:06.329
rushing out is dangerous as shit. And she's scared to

1693
01:27:06.369 --> 01:27:08.600
hell of him when he gets a hold of her.

1694
01:27:08.609 --> 01:27:09.789
Yeah, because she doesn't know what's going on.

1695
01:27:09.869 --> 01:27:10.310
No, no.

1696
01:27:10.430 --> 01:27:15.130
And she's just been through horrible, horrible shit. So I

1697
01:27:15.189 --> 01:27:17.310
love that whole sequence is so good. And I love

1698
01:27:17.329 --> 01:27:19.369
that he shows up and she's breathing through that pipe.

1699
01:27:19.930 --> 01:27:23.369
It shows that she was not passive at all. Like

1700
01:27:23.390 --> 01:27:25.380
you were mentioning, I mean, it's a really great touch.

1701
01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:28.300
That also humanizes her to a point where it would really,

1702
01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:30.399
really be heartbreaking if she died.

1703
01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:35.760
Yeah, I was... My asshole was puckered. I was so scared.

1704
01:27:36.220 --> 01:27:40.100
And then we've got Catherine as she's kind of talking

1705
01:27:40.159 --> 01:27:45.779
with child Carl. And then child Carl gets pulled away.

1706
01:27:46.060 --> 01:27:48.840
And now she's got to deal with God King Carl.

1707
01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:54.060
And she has her final costume change where she looks...

1708
01:27:54.470 --> 01:27:58.149
She reminds me of, like, Greek iconography of, like, Artemis

1709
01:27:58.789 --> 01:28:00.229
or the huntress gods.

1710
01:28:00.449 --> 01:28:01.310
Okay.

1711
01:28:01.649 --> 01:28:05.350
And, you know, she has her final moment where she,

1712
01:28:05.789 --> 01:28:11.739
you know, shoots Carl through the heart and defeats him.

1713
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:12.239
Yeah.

1714
01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:16.399
So it's this great, you know, they win. They win.

1715
01:28:16.899 --> 01:28:21.220
And then, you know, it's several weeks later, weeks or

1716
01:28:21.260 --> 01:28:21.659
months later.

1717
01:28:22.119 --> 01:28:24.680
And, and, and, uh, but we, did we go, I apologize.

1718
01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:26.439
Cause I was making a note about what we're about

1719
01:28:26.460 --> 01:28:28.140
to talk about. Oh no, do you mention the drowning?

1720
01:28:29.500 --> 01:28:30.539
Uh, Julia drowning?

1721
01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:31.569
No, no, no, no.

1722
01:28:31.569 --> 01:28:32.130
Oh no, we didn't.

1723
01:28:32.130 --> 01:28:32.329
Okay.

1724
01:28:32.329 --> 01:28:32.539
Okay.

1725
01:28:32.539 --> 01:28:34.050
I just want to make sure you go ahead. i

1726
01:28:34.050 --> 01:28:37.609
apologize oh well that's because so the biggest uh turnaround

1727
01:28:37.649 --> 01:28:42.039
of the film uh thematically is you know we learn

1728
01:28:42.060 --> 01:28:45.779
about the drowning the bird to be merciful we learn

1729
01:28:45.819 --> 01:28:48.119
about all this stuff now all of a sudden she's

1730
01:28:49.180 --> 01:28:51.899
uh kind of uh catherine is kind of a um

1731
01:28:53.140 --> 01:28:57.149
a mother mary a a like a deity not a

1732
01:28:57.189 --> 01:29:01.430
god You know, because that's too much. A deity. Yeah.

1733
01:29:01.970 --> 01:29:06.449
And she tries, she brings, you know, because it's her mind,

1734
01:29:06.529 --> 01:29:11.729
she tries to, she lies to little Carl and tells him, like, no,

1735
01:29:11.770 --> 01:29:13.680
you can stay here forever. After he had said, like,

1736
01:29:13.699 --> 01:29:14.960
can I go with you? And she's like, it doesn't

1737
01:29:14.979 --> 01:29:19.279
work that way. And then she finally, she just puts

1738
01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:21.800
his head under the water and she drowns him and

1739
01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:25.000
it kills big Carl. Yeah. Because if you don't know

1740
01:29:25.060 --> 01:29:27.159
it's not real, then it's real.

1741
01:29:27.239 --> 01:29:27.659
It's real.

1742
01:29:27.859 --> 01:29:28.020
Yeah.

1743
01:29:28.729 --> 01:29:32.710
So it's, it's a, it's a, it's a devastating ending.

1744
01:29:32.729 --> 01:29:36.189
I mean, the realization that you can't separate the two,

1745
01:29:36.369 --> 01:29:38.369
they just really can't separate is really like one of

1746
01:29:38.430 --> 01:29:44.020
the harshest elements of the film, but also her making

1747
01:29:44.060 --> 01:29:46.359
that choice is really a lot.

1748
01:29:46.880 --> 01:29:47.060
Yeah.

1749
01:29:47.300 --> 01:29:49.500
And just you wait. Cause I've got all the thoughts,

1750
01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:51.119
but we're not going to get to that yet. Cause we're,

1751
01:29:51.420 --> 01:29:54.039
we're getting to the, the, the, the part you wanted

1752
01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:56.640
to talk about the most, but that ending is, affects

1753
01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:59.180
me a lot, and it really makes the ending, to me,

1754
01:29:59.380 --> 01:30:03.710
extremely complicated. Oh, yeah. And we'll get there. But then,

1755
01:30:03.770 --> 01:30:06.409
you're right, so then a few weeks later, after she's

1756
01:30:06.569 --> 01:30:10.630
murdered this guy, but it's okay, because she did it

1757
01:30:10.670 --> 01:30:12.770
to a version of him that looked like a child. Wait,

1758
01:30:12.829 --> 01:30:15.659
this is not getting easy yet. No, but it was,

1759
01:30:16.180 --> 01:30:17.279
but she was being merciful.

1760
01:30:17.579 --> 01:30:18.220
It was a mercy killing.

1761
01:30:18.260 --> 01:30:22.100
It was all about merciful, but the irony is, you know,

1762
01:30:22.140 --> 01:30:25.060
it was a mercy that he understood. Yeah. Which is,

1763
01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:28.449
I'll get there. But it is kind of beautiful in

1764
01:30:28.510 --> 01:30:30.630
its way, you know, but it's also kind of like,

1765
01:30:31.470 --> 01:30:34.710
you know, Mother Teresa, you know, watching people die and

1766
01:30:34.989 --> 01:30:38.550
it's weird. So, yeah. So anyway, so a few weeks later.

1767
01:30:38.630 --> 01:30:41.350
So a few weeks later, we find out that one,

1768
01:30:41.449 --> 01:30:43.170
she's adopted Carl's dog.

1769
01:30:43.689 --> 01:30:44.649
Yeah.

1770
01:30:44.949 --> 01:30:47.829
I thought it was an interesting symbology, too, because he

1771
01:30:48.010 --> 01:30:52.590
used the dog as like a tool in his crimes.

1772
01:30:53.189 --> 01:30:55.369
And then it's almost like she got to reclaim Carl.

1773
01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:59.340
the dog or, you know, reclaim that, that innocence and purity.

1774
01:30:59.819 --> 01:31:02.560
Yeah. Because he was subservient. One of the only actual

1775
01:31:02.649 --> 01:31:04.630
subservience that Carl could manage.

1776
01:31:04.930 --> 01:31:05.130
Yeah.

1777
01:31:05.409 --> 01:31:05.550
Yeah.

1778
01:31:05.569 --> 01:31:06.130
That's a good point.

1779
01:31:06.750 --> 01:31:10.029
Um, so they, she, Catherine and Peter get up to

1780
01:31:10.090 --> 01:31:13.029
kind of talk and it's kind of implied this is

1781
01:31:13.069 --> 01:31:14.409
the last time they're ever going to be able to

1782
01:31:14.470 --> 01:31:15.050
talk together.

1783
01:31:15.510 --> 01:31:15.630
Yeah.

1784
01:31:15.670 --> 01:31:17.510
Or that they just, cause why would they, cause why

1785
01:31:17.529 --> 01:31:19.029
would they ever see each other again? Or maybe they

1786
01:31:19.050 --> 01:31:20.869
don't want to. I mean, I don't want to remember

1787
01:31:20.909 --> 01:31:21.250
any of this.

1788
01:31:21.329 --> 01:31:27.210
I don't blame them. So they're discussing it and, officially

1789
01:31:27.930 --> 01:31:33.130
the records are that Vincent or, you know, Vincent Vaughn's

1790
01:31:33.149 --> 01:31:37.699
character just did good old fashioned detective work and just

1791
01:31:37.899 --> 01:31:43.500
managed to connect the dots. And he figured it out.

1792
01:31:43.659 --> 01:31:44.810
He figured it out on his own.

1793
01:31:44.819 --> 01:31:47.470
He ate a rare steak, smoked three cigarettes and solved

1794
01:31:47.510 --> 01:31:48.229
that bastard.

1795
01:31:49.189 --> 01:31:53.789
But, but then as audience members, we have to wonder like, okay, okay.

1796
01:31:54.680 --> 01:31:58.479
Maybe he could have figured it out eventually. But would

1797
01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:03.260
they have been able to find those clues, put all

1798
01:32:03.300 --> 01:32:07.029
that together, you know, find the sales titles, trace everything

1799
01:32:07.090 --> 01:32:09.710
down in time to save Julia?

1800
01:32:10.710 --> 01:32:11.050
Maybe.

1801
01:32:12.069 --> 01:32:12.310
Yeah.

1802
01:32:12.710 --> 01:32:13.350
I mean, maybe.

1803
01:32:14.689 --> 01:32:16.390
But I mean, it's kind of a it's kind of

1804
01:32:16.430 --> 01:32:20.170
a slim because we don't like they kind of threw

1805
01:32:20.229 --> 01:32:22.090
all their eggs into this one basket.

1806
01:32:22.989 --> 01:32:23.170
Yeah.

1807
01:32:23.189 --> 01:32:23.270
Yeah.

1808
01:32:23.970 --> 01:32:26.069
I'm just saying like, there's a chance that they didn't

1809
01:32:26.109 --> 01:32:30.060
have to do any of that, which is, which is telling.

1810
01:32:30.069 --> 01:32:34.659
Cause like the results of it were so devastating in

1811
01:32:34.720 --> 01:32:38.520
every direction, except for Julia's maybe. I mean, I think

1812
01:32:38.539 --> 01:32:40.369
that probably it helped, but they did, they did leave it.

1813
01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:42.869
Like they could have kind of, cause at the same

1814
01:32:42.909 --> 01:32:45.029
time they were kind of figuring it out when he

1815
01:32:45.069 --> 01:32:47.489
got like the last little bit too. Cause he wasn't,

1816
01:32:47.529 --> 01:32:49.029
they didn't act. I mean, they kind of put it

1817
01:32:49.050 --> 01:32:51.430
all in the basket, but I mean, Vaughn, was with them,

1818
01:32:51.510 --> 01:32:53.460
but the other people, the rest of the FBI was

1819
01:32:53.500 --> 01:32:56.380
doing everything else. So, I mean, they were trying. But again,

1820
01:32:56.439 --> 01:32:58.380
it's kind of like Julia. We weren't following the rest

1821
01:32:58.420 --> 01:33:01.079
of the FBI all the time. We had moments where

1822
01:33:01.100 --> 01:33:02.939
we saw what they were doing. We had moments where

1823
01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:05.930
we saw what Julia was doing trapped in the cell. So,

1824
01:33:06.659 --> 01:33:08.409
but yeah, it's complicated.

1825
01:33:08.649 --> 01:33:08.949
It is.

1826
01:33:09.130 --> 01:33:09.430
It is.

1827
01:33:09.750 --> 01:33:12.130
No, but that's why it's such a good movie, though,

1828
01:33:12.189 --> 01:33:13.729
is because it is complicated.

1829
01:33:13.770 --> 01:33:14.270
Oh, just you wait.

1830
01:33:14.289 --> 01:33:14.369
Yeah.

1831
01:33:15.189 --> 01:33:18.149
But yeah, so they have that talk and, you know,

1832
01:33:18.189 --> 01:33:20.289
there's a bit of a laugh about like, oh, well,

1833
01:33:20.510 --> 01:33:25.170
you know, we'll always know. Sorry about that. We'll always

1834
01:33:25.250 --> 01:33:29.390
know sort of thing. And then it kind of turns

1835
01:33:29.569 --> 01:33:34.960
out that because Catherine had this experience with Carl, the

1836
01:33:35.020 --> 01:33:39.560
research has concluded that it is better to bring her

1837
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:44.600
patients into her mind. So there's this brief little reconnection

1838
01:33:44.659 --> 01:33:48.939
where she gets to talk to the kid edward and

1839
01:33:49.420 --> 01:33:52.680
um he's like way more receptive now because they're they're

1840
01:33:52.739 --> 01:33:55.180
in a different environment it's more you know it's so

1841
01:33:55.220 --> 01:33:59.600
it's a really sweet kind of like sweet uh wrap up.

1842
01:33:59.659 --> 01:34:03.939
Yeah well it ends with physician heal thyself oh yeah

1843
01:34:04.859 --> 01:34:06.279
you have to go into her mind and her mind

1844
01:34:06.319 --> 01:34:08.020
has to be a healthy safe place for them to.

1845
01:34:07.979 --> 01:34:11.939
Be yeah yeah yeah no you're right.

1846
01:34:12.189 --> 01:34:15.949
Hence the idea that maybe it's a kind of psychological

1847
01:34:16.010 --> 01:34:18.430
trespass to just walk into people's minds and start changing

1848
01:34:18.449 --> 01:34:20.489
things when maybe what you should be doing is bringing

1849
01:34:20.520 --> 01:34:23.000
them into yours. Again, I'm not saying that that is

1850
01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:25.380
necessarily the perfect moral claim. I'm just saying like, it's

1851
01:34:25.420 --> 01:34:27.939
a question that the movie kind of throws at you

1852
01:34:28.420 --> 01:34:31.000
really hard, like a, like a frigging egg on Halloween.

1853
01:34:32.659 --> 01:34:35.229
So we're going to take a break and then we're

1854
01:34:35.250 --> 01:34:38.829
going to talk about some interpretations of the film as

1855
01:34:38.869 --> 01:34:42.420
a whole. And again, how many goddamn cells there actually

1856
01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:59.319
are right after this. So help me. How many cells?

1857
01:34:59.939 --> 01:35:01.260
Now you don't have to like, just say a number.

1858
01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:04.060
I mean, like you can start listing out cells, but

1859
01:35:04.159 --> 01:35:07.380
how many cells I, cause I was compiling my, my

1860
01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:10.489
thoughts on it a little bit. How many cells, literal

1861
01:35:10.529 --> 01:35:13.470
and figurative, do you feel are in the cell?

1862
01:35:14.369 --> 01:35:16.369
Well, I mean, we're going to start with the obvious one.

1863
01:35:16.670 --> 01:35:17.029
Julia.

1864
01:35:17.109 --> 01:35:17.770
Julia's cell.

1865
01:35:18.310 --> 01:35:19.270
Literal glass cell.

1866
01:35:19.489 --> 01:35:26.060
Literal glass cell. We could also count the room that

1867
01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:28.779
the kid Edward is kept in. Could we?

1868
01:35:29.079 --> 01:35:31.300
No, because he's not kept there. He's moved there for

1869
01:35:31.340 --> 01:35:34.020
a thing and then moved to another thing. But I

1870
01:35:34.060 --> 01:35:37.180
think Edward is trapped inside his coma. I think that's

1871
01:35:37.199 --> 01:35:39.300
a sell for sure. For sure. A thousand percent.

1872
01:35:40.979 --> 01:35:43.970
I would also say, oh, I feel like I had

1873
01:35:44.029 --> 01:35:44.529
another one.

1874
01:35:44.850 --> 01:35:51.729
Nope. Well, I think Carl is trapped inside of his

1875
01:35:52.210 --> 01:35:53.829
damaged and fragmented mind.

1876
01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:55.449
Okay.

1877
01:35:55.569 --> 01:35:58.359
And that's only exacerbated by being in a coma.

1878
01:35:58.760 --> 01:35:59.020
Okay.

1879
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:02.159
It's not that the coma isn't really his cell. It's just.

1880
01:36:02.710 --> 01:36:05.310
He is in a cell and the coma just makes,

1881
01:36:05.649 --> 01:36:07.510
you know, that all he sees.

1882
01:36:07.829 --> 01:36:08.630
Yeah.

1883
01:36:08.670 --> 01:36:10.229
Because he was always trapped in there anyway.

1884
01:36:10.409 --> 01:36:11.649
Yeah.

1885
01:36:12.710 --> 01:36:18.630
We got Julia, Carl. Catherine is trapped inside Carl's concept

1886
01:36:18.670 --> 01:36:22.029
of reality that becomes her cell. Okay. But she's not

1887
01:36:22.069 --> 01:36:24.310
trapped in his coma and she's not trapped in his

1888
01:36:24.390 --> 01:36:29.170
damaged mind per se. She's trapped in his conception, his creation.

1889
01:36:29.470 --> 01:36:29.829
Yeah.

1890
01:36:29.949 --> 01:36:33.250
Which I like that one. Um, you could also say

1891
01:36:33.289 --> 01:36:36.479
that she's trapped in a possible savior complex.

1892
01:36:37.720 --> 01:36:38.579
Yeah, that for sure.

1893
01:36:38.819 --> 01:36:40.460
I think there is a question about if she has

1894
01:36:40.500 --> 01:36:43.399
like a kind of unhealthy savior complex and we'll get

1895
01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:45.439
into that. Um, but we have to do the cell

1896
01:36:45.500 --> 01:36:47.140
question first. Cause I thought it was hilarious to be like,

1897
01:36:47.159 --> 01:36:51.149
how many damn cells are there being something we run down? Um,

1898
01:36:52.010 --> 01:36:52.930
Carl's childhood.

1899
01:36:53.710 --> 01:36:54.010
Okay.

1900
01:36:54.029 --> 01:36:54.189
Yeah.

1901
01:36:54.310 --> 01:36:58.649
Psychologically imprisoned inside an adult killer. And I think that's

1902
01:36:58.689 --> 01:36:59.789
a fair cell.

1903
01:36:59.810 --> 01:37:00.409
Yeah.

1904
01:37:01.310 --> 01:37:04.640
Um, and then this is the, one of the last

1905
01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:08.000
ones I thought of Peter is trapped in his job,

1906
01:37:08.079 --> 01:37:10.399
which is the only way he can repent.

1907
01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:12.260
Okay.

1908
01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:13.039
Yeah.

1909
01:37:13.840 --> 01:37:17.260
And then of course the seventh cell, we are all

1910
01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:20.350
trapped in our living room, watching the film and asking

1911
01:37:20.390 --> 01:37:23.869
these questions. So those are the seven cells in the cell,

1912
01:37:23.949 --> 01:37:27.869
according to me and you. It's perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

1913
01:37:28.180 --> 01:37:29.359
I was very proud of that last one. I had

1914
01:37:29.380 --> 01:37:31.079
to try so hard not to giggle when I thought

1915
01:37:31.100 --> 01:37:35.720
of it. Uh, so I have some thoughts, uh, about

1916
01:37:35.939 --> 01:37:38.819
the ending and I, I love the ending. I love that.

1917
01:37:38.859 --> 01:37:40.880
I have like a bunch of interpretations and some of

1918
01:37:40.899 --> 01:37:45.869
them are nice and some of them are mean. So like, uh,

1919
01:37:46.050 --> 01:37:51.069
how do I put this? Like, uh, an optimistic interpretation, uh,

1920
01:37:51.550 --> 01:37:56.640
would be Catherine. Uh, Catherine is, uh, she's learned not

1921
01:37:56.720 --> 01:37:59.720
to invade. A patient's hostile world. Like I was saying

1922
01:37:59.739 --> 01:38:00.680
about the trespass thing.

1923
01:38:00.819 --> 01:38:01.810
Yeah.

1924
01:38:02.270 --> 01:38:04.029
So now she's, you know, inviting Edward to a safe

1925
01:38:04.069 --> 01:38:09.609
environment she created. Therapy becomes, you know, hospitable and not

1926
01:38:09.670 --> 01:38:11.449
interrogation-y or whatever.

1927
01:38:11.470 --> 01:38:12.880
Way more consensual.

1928
01:38:12.949 --> 01:38:15.000
Yeah. Like I said, physician heal thyself kind of thing

1929
01:38:15.020 --> 01:38:17.300
where it's like you need to have a safe place

1930
01:38:17.359 --> 01:38:19.840
inside you for people to come. Yeah. Which I think

1931
01:38:19.880 --> 01:38:21.810
is a beautiful way to look at it.

1932
01:38:22.079 --> 01:38:23.359
Yeah. Or.

1933
01:38:23.380 --> 01:38:23.500
Uh-oh.

1934
01:38:25.199 --> 01:38:27.949
You could also consider the idea that Catherine has become

1935
01:38:27.989 --> 01:38:33.600
more comfortable controlling another person's reality. Her world was kinder

1936
01:38:33.640 --> 01:38:38.479
than Carl's. So, but Edward is still, he's still growing

1937
01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:41.739
and being brought into an environment where she determines everything

1938
01:38:41.779 --> 01:38:44.260
that he sees, how he develops, how he interprets, how

1939
01:38:44.300 --> 01:38:48.039
he understands everything, which kind of makes her God to

1940
01:38:48.060 --> 01:38:52.250
that boy. Yeah. Yeah.

1941
01:38:52.770 --> 01:38:56.590
And she did perform a mercy killing just like Carl did.

1942
01:38:56.930 --> 01:38:58.680
I was I was going to I was going to

1943
01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:05.460
go there to be be extra mean. So like Catherine

1944
01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:12.430
defeats Carl, but not through psychology or objective science or

1945
01:39:12.970 --> 01:39:15.750
reason or any of the things she's trained to use.

1946
01:39:15.789 --> 01:39:17.489
Not like not really.

1947
01:39:17.829 --> 01:39:18.050
Yeah.

1948
01:39:18.739 --> 01:39:23.939
But by taking his cruel fantasy and replacing it with

1949
01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:28.649
a merciful fantasy, it's also not real. He's not being

1950
01:39:28.699 --> 01:39:32.770
held by a beautiful savior. Yeah. It's not real. It's

1951
01:39:32.850 --> 01:39:37.250
just a world she controls that he is convinced he's in.

1952
01:39:38.210 --> 01:39:41.369
And then the film kind of leaves the morality of

1953
01:39:41.409 --> 01:39:46.979
that victory like kind of all over the place like

1954
01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:48.579
kind of like it could be good it could be

1955
01:39:48.859 --> 01:39:55.619
bad but the reason I find that extra troubling is

1956
01:39:55.680 --> 01:40:02.130
because like she you could say that she leaves the

1957
01:40:02.210 --> 01:40:07.630
cell more like Carl as to where Carl just dies

1958
01:40:08.529 --> 01:40:12.050
Carl doesn't become better yeah he doesn't he just has

1959
01:40:12.069 --> 01:40:15.890
like a brief moment of pretend peace and And then

1960
01:40:15.930 --> 01:40:18.470
she mercy kills him. Again, I'm not saying, I'm saying like,

1961
01:40:18.479 --> 01:40:19.829
this is a way you can interpret it.

1962
01:40:19.829 --> 01:40:20.329
Yeah.

1963
01:40:20.369 --> 01:40:20.630
Yeah.

1964
01:40:21.529 --> 01:40:23.390
I mean, there, there's a whole, we could go into

1965
01:40:23.430 --> 01:40:27.890
a whole other, uh, just, you know, schmoz of frigging,

1966
01:40:28.170 --> 01:40:31.329
you know, is a mercy killing. Okay. And, and, and

1967
01:40:31.390 --> 01:40:35.789
all this stuff. But, you know, when you look at her,

1968
01:40:36.229 --> 01:40:41.430
her mindset that like she can save people and that, um,

1969
01:40:41.970 --> 01:40:44.310
you know, that there's like an innocent child instead of everybody.

1970
01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:47.439
And then it's like, well, this child actually can't just

1971
01:40:47.479 --> 01:40:49.239
be an innocent child. And it's like, OK, well, then

1972
01:40:49.260 --> 01:40:49.939
I'll just drown him.

1973
01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:51.779
Yeah.

1974
01:40:52.579 --> 01:40:54.760
So I love to hear what you think of that.

1975
01:40:55.460 --> 01:40:56.739
It's an uncomfortable interpretation.

1976
01:40:56.840 --> 01:40:58.060
It is. It is.

1977
01:40:58.390 --> 01:41:01.239
But I mean, that's again, that's why I like the movie,

1978
01:41:01.359 --> 01:41:04.149
because it is multilayered.

1979
01:41:04.470 --> 01:41:04.670
Yes.

1980
01:41:04.789 --> 01:41:08.729
And it does throughout the movie. It does kind of

1981
01:41:08.829 --> 01:41:12.890
beg that question of. Is it OK for them to

1982
01:41:12.930 --> 01:41:16.640
be doing this just because they're trying to save someone?

1983
01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:19.300
Oh, that was something I hadn't brought up. That is

1984
01:41:19.960 --> 01:41:24.819
the legal element of entering somebody's mind is completely way

1985
01:41:24.880 --> 01:41:27.000
like a lawyer would have a field day with that. Yeah.

1986
01:41:27.819 --> 01:41:30.460
I mean, literally, law enforcement is like, we're going to

1987
01:41:30.579 --> 01:41:32.750
we're going to we're going to extract information from an

1988
01:41:32.829 --> 01:41:37.130
unconscious suspect. Well, it's the kind of thing that the

1989
01:41:37.170 --> 01:41:38.789
Supreme Court would figure out if that could ever happen

1990
01:41:38.829 --> 01:41:40.210
again after it happens. Yeah.

1991
01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:46.199
But so she does have, you know, she does have

1992
01:41:46.260 --> 01:41:49.260
like that kind of savior complex.

1993
01:41:49.420 --> 01:41:51.239
For sure. I mean, she shows herself as a savior

1994
01:41:51.279 --> 01:41:52.420
when he enters her mind.

1995
01:41:52.439 --> 01:41:57.979
Yeah, when he enters her mind. And yeah, and it

1996
01:41:58.159 --> 01:42:02.750
leaves us with the question of, was there anything she

1997
01:42:02.810 --> 01:42:08.489
could have done to save Carl? Was he too far gone?

1998
01:42:08.590 --> 01:42:10.810
And he was never coming out of the coma.

1999
01:42:11.550 --> 01:42:11.869
Oh, yeah.

2000
01:42:11.890 --> 01:42:15.029
That's early on. The doctor says that, like, he's never

2001
01:42:15.109 --> 01:42:17.470
heard of anybody waking up from this type of coma.

2002
01:42:17.710 --> 01:42:17.869
Yeah.

2003
01:42:18.369 --> 01:42:20.680
So that is that. And that's like I said, I'm

2004
01:42:20.689 --> 01:42:23.060
not saying that that's exactly what I think the ending is.

2005
01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:25.619
I have a bunch of thoughts about what the ending is.

2006
01:42:25.800 --> 01:42:28.760
And they contradict each other a lot, which is why

2007
01:42:28.800 --> 01:42:31.899
we record a show about it and also why we'll

2008
01:42:31.939 --> 01:42:46.430
take this break and talk more about it. One other element,

2009
01:42:46.449 --> 01:42:49.649
and I don't like to get too far in the

2010
01:42:49.729 --> 01:42:52.729
weeds on this concept, but it is always interesting, is

2011
01:42:53.130 --> 01:43:00.310
the concept of voyeurism in viewing. Because it is a

2012
01:43:00.350 --> 01:43:03.899
theme in the movie. You know, Carl looks in the

2013
01:43:03.939 --> 01:43:10.920
cell and watches, even without being there, like on a

2014
01:43:11.159 --> 01:43:14.340
camera so he's not even seen. So then Catherine goes

2015
01:43:14.380 --> 01:43:19.020
into his mind and until Carl co-ops her, she's just

2016
01:43:19.340 --> 01:43:25.000
a voyeur watching the violence and the cruelty and the

2017
01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:32.380
creation and conception of this monster. Yeah. So she's kind

2018
01:43:32.460 --> 01:43:37.439
of a voyeur in that way. So that's kind of

2019
01:43:37.500 --> 01:43:39.760
a hefty one. But what makes it more hefty is,

2020
01:43:40.560 --> 01:43:44.000
so he has this extravagancy. You know, in his mind

2021
01:43:44.020 --> 01:43:46.000
that we talked about with the flowing silks and the

2022
01:43:46.079 --> 01:43:48.199
this and that and this and that and how he

2023
01:43:48.279 --> 01:43:49.989
thinks that this is like the world he's created. It's

2024
01:43:50.010 --> 01:43:54.449
so gorgeous. But we're sitting there watching it and we're

2025
01:43:54.710 --> 01:43:58.350
seeing the world through his creation through his eyes. So

2026
01:43:58.399 --> 01:44:02.399
we're seeing the cruelty, the violence, the whatever as beautiful ourselves,

2027
01:44:03.079 --> 01:44:05.960
which in a way almost makes us complicit as an audience.

2028
01:44:06.380 --> 01:44:06.560
Oh, yeah.

2029
01:44:07.390 --> 01:44:10.609
Oh, okay. I don't always go because you can make

2030
01:44:10.649 --> 01:44:14.229
that argument pretty easily that audiences are complicit. Yeah. I mean,

2031
01:44:14.590 --> 01:44:16.770
it's not a big deal. Audiences are complicit in all

2032
01:44:16.810 --> 01:44:19.649
kinds of, especially when it's horror, audiences become complicit all

2033
01:44:19.670 --> 01:44:21.520
the time. I mean, you can watch a movie where

2034
01:44:21.560 --> 01:44:22.939
all of a sudden you're like, why am I hoping

2035
01:44:22.960 --> 01:44:25.220
this killer doesn't get caught? It's because they did a

2036
01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:28.300
good job making you feel, you know, whatever they are.

2037
01:44:30.539 --> 01:44:33.539
But that's also just one other element is like the

2038
01:44:33.579 --> 01:44:35.840
fact that it's so lush to look at and stuff.

2039
01:44:36.680 --> 01:44:41.399
is the filmmaker translating Carl into something gorgeous so that

2040
01:44:41.439 --> 01:44:44.039
you will identify with Carl more, so that you will

2041
01:44:44.779 --> 01:44:47.350
understand his hideous world the way he understands it.

2042
01:44:47.880 --> 01:44:48.439
Oh, yeah.

2043
01:44:48.520 --> 01:44:50.739
Yeah, so that could be something that makes you kind

2044
01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:53.859
of uncomfortable. I know I'm stretching now. I thought you'd

2045
01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.189
have more counterpoints and disagreements with me, to be honest.

2046
01:44:57.189 --> 01:45:00.449
Oh, sorry. Sometimes you have really good points, and I

2047
01:45:00.470 --> 01:45:01.850
just agree with them.

2048
01:45:03.109 --> 01:45:05.029
But if you want to be really mean to Catherine.

2049
01:45:05.949 --> 01:45:06.210
Oh, no.

2050
01:45:07.939 --> 01:45:12.760
You could look at her as somebody who sees herself

2051
01:45:13.060 --> 01:45:17.939
as so compassionate, like her compassion is so exceptional that

2052
01:45:18.060 --> 01:45:23.199
ordinary limits of reason, sanity, and safety don't apply to her.

2053
01:45:26.479 --> 01:45:29.069
It is a very hostile way of looking at it,

2054
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:33.850
but the rescuing becomes a personal project to her, you know,

2055
01:45:33.909 --> 01:45:36.729
that she has to save this child inside this guy

2056
01:45:36.770 --> 01:45:40.449
because who else could because and I do think that

2057
01:45:40.689 --> 01:45:43.340
that like I could see that interpretation coming up pretty

2058
01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:47.319
easily when she sees herself as like a savior in

2059
01:45:47.359 --> 01:45:50.300
her own mind I think that that oh absolutely and

2060
01:45:50.340 --> 01:45:52.399
again I actually I think her character is great I'm

2061
01:45:52.579 --> 01:45:54.060
just saying like you know I could be pretty I

2062
01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:57.430
could be pretty harsh to her if you really want

2063
01:45:57.470 --> 01:46:01.390
like there are ways to look at it the other

2064
01:46:01.409 --> 01:46:05.350
the other big one would be like Is it that

2065
01:46:05.409 --> 01:46:07.829
she thinks domination is bad, or is it just that

2066
01:46:07.890 --> 01:46:13.090
she thinks that it should only be her dominating? I mean,

2067
01:46:13.130 --> 01:46:14.850
we touched on it a little bit.

2068
01:46:14.930 --> 01:46:17.689
Yeah, yeah. I get what you're saying there. And I

2069
01:46:17.750 --> 01:46:24.729
definitely think that it's something the filmmakers wanted us to consider.

2070
01:46:26.350 --> 01:46:30.380
Because there is a point... you know, roughly halfway through

2071
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:33.640
the movie where Catherine and Peter like sit down and

2072
01:46:33.659 --> 01:46:38.260
they have kind of a heart to heart, which is

2073
01:46:38.420 --> 01:46:41.579
how he discovers that, you know, her younger sibling died

2074
01:46:41.640 --> 01:46:45.140
as a child and she kind of discovers his impetus

2075
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:51.569
to being a detective. And there is kind of like,

2076
01:46:52.029 --> 01:46:56.109
as they're connecting, there is kind of this recognition he

2077
01:46:56.170 --> 01:46:59.069
gives her of like, we're not doing this for Carl.

2078
01:46:59.880 --> 01:47:02.199
we're doing this for Julia and you have to keep

2079
01:47:02.239 --> 01:47:05.770
this in mind that like, we're not there to save Carl. Um,

2080
01:47:06.510 --> 01:47:11.050
but she's still like, that's not her way. Her way

2081
01:47:11.569 --> 01:47:15.430
to save Julia is to connect with Carl, um, and

2082
01:47:15.470 --> 01:47:17.810
kind of take things into her own hands. So yeah,

2083
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:21.380
she does have kind of like this, um, a little

2084
01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:24.000
bit of an ego where she does seem to think

2085
01:47:24.020 --> 01:47:25.600
that she knows better than everyone else.

2086
01:47:26.319 --> 01:47:29.939
Well, it's like, she needs to be good, but isn't

2087
01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:35.649
necessarily focused on whether she's doing good. Yes. Um, you know,

2088
01:47:35.670 --> 01:47:37.850
in Carl's world, he's a King, right?

2089
01:47:38.050 --> 01:47:38.229
Yeah.

2090
01:47:38.430 --> 01:47:41.630
In her world, she's a Saint, you know, but in

2091
01:47:41.689 --> 01:47:45.130
both they're, they're creating a world, uh, the way they, the,

2092
01:47:45.689 --> 01:47:48.890
in both worlds, the biggest thing they get to decide,

2093
01:47:49.090 --> 01:47:52.899
the only thing they get to decide is what happens

2094
01:47:53.100 --> 01:47:56.560
to the vulnerable, right? Oh, okay. I mean, that's the

2095
01:47:56.579 --> 01:47:58.560
only thing you get to decide. There's nothing else. There's

2096
01:47:58.579 --> 01:48:01.460
no one else there, whatever. She goes in there thinking

2097
01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:04.779
she can save the innocent child inside him, but then

2098
01:48:04.819 --> 01:48:07.970
she hurts the child while attacking him, you know, because

2099
01:48:08.010 --> 01:48:15.630
they're the same. Then gives his death meaning of her salvation. Sorry,

2100
01:48:15.649 --> 01:48:17.930
I was having trouble really gathering my words and my

2101
01:48:18.010 --> 01:48:20.310
notes are, I'm not I'm not a good note taker

2102
01:48:20.329 --> 01:48:23.149
and I'm not taking really strong notes so I sometimes

2103
01:48:23.170 --> 01:48:24.420
I'm like I have to read this three times to

2104
01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:25.909
figure out what I was thinking when I wrote when

2105
01:48:25.939 --> 01:48:29.720
I wrote down like you know you know turn signal

2106
01:48:29.739 --> 01:48:30.579
pickle I'm like what.

2107
01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:32.720
The hell was I saying it just says worm hat.

2108
01:48:32.840 --> 01:48:35.380
Worm hat that's funny that's that's way better than mine

2109
01:48:36.699 --> 01:48:43.359
but afterward So keep in mind that after she saves Carl,

2110
01:48:45.270 --> 01:48:47.890
she doesn't look at it as like, I killed somebody.

2111
01:48:48.949 --> 01:48:50.329
She doesn't really look at it. She looks at it

2112
01:48:50.369 --> 01:48:52.770
strictly as I saved him. She looks at it as like,

2113
01:48:52.869 --> 01:48:56.729
I am now a bigger authority in this type of

2114
01:48:56.789 --> 01:49:00.289
therapy than ever before, even though my only successful patient

2115
01:49:00.529 --> 01:49:04.670
I personally killed. They didn't die because of my therapy.

2116
01:49:04.689 --> 01:49:05.750
They died because I killed them.

2117
01:49:06.090 --> 01:49:07.810
Yeah. By my hand.

2118
01:49:08.600 --> 01:49:11.640
So then the first thought is, okay, so in my world,

2119
01:49:12.520 --> 01:49:17.770
I killed a kid. Now let's get another kid in here. Now,

2120
01:49:17.789 --> 01:49:19.010
of course he's not demented.

2121
01:49:19.470 --> 01:49:20.090
Yeah.

2122
01:49:20.109 --> 01:49:22.850
So I mean, again, this is me being bad faith.

2123
01:49:22.970 --> 01:49:25.609
I mean, this is me being devil's advocate against her

2124
01:49:25.649 --> 01:49:27.960
a little bit, but that's why, but like, that's my

2125
01:49:28.000 --> 01:49:30.520
point is like, you could take it as she's realized

2126
01:49:30.579 --> 01:49:33.100
a purity beyond all that. If you want to go

2127
01:49:33.140 --> 01:49:36.680
the total other way, it's that. killing Carl for mercy

2128
01:49:36.760 --> 01:49:38.739
was like hell for her because it's the one thing

2129
01:49:38.779 --> 01:49:41.630
she would never want. And that her doing it was

2130
01:49:41.670 --> 01:49:44.310
her ultimate act of selflessness. You can go the totally.

2131
01:49:44.470 --> 01:49:44.970
Oh yeah.

2132
01:49:45.310 --> 01:49:47.710
So I don't want, I really, I don't want anybody

2133
01:49:47.729 --> 01:49:49.149
to think I'm sitting here saying like, all I'm saying

2134
01:49:49.170 --> 01:49:51.770
is that that movie has a, has a Latina Hitler

2135
01:49:51.810 --> 01:49:54.689
in it. That's not my point. You know, I would

2136
01:49:54.710 --> 01:49:58.399
never say that about JLo. Um, so yeah, So I

2137
01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:00.180
guess my point is, like, if you want to look

2138
01:50:00.239 --> 01:50:02.970
at it, like, really negatively toward her because of the

2139
01:50:03.010 --> 01:50:06.430
way things went and how complicated they are, maybe she

2140
01:50:06.489 --> 01:50:11.229
has had massive personal growth or maybe she learned that

2141
01:50:11.409 --> 01:50:15.600
absolute control is totally acceptable as long as her understanding

2142
01:50:15.609 --> 01:50:17.260
of compassion is being executed.

2143
01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:18.539
Yeah.

2144
01:50:19.090 --> 01:50:19.329
Yeah.

2145
01:50:19.529 --> 01:50:21.399
I really lucked out with the phrasing at the end.

2146
01:50:21.439 --> 01:50:22.859
I was like, how am I going to land here?

2147
01:50:23.060 --> 01:50:25.399
And the words came just fine. I'm just getting old.

2148
01:50:25.420 --> 01:50:26.319
You stuck the landing.

2149
01:50:26.340 --> 01:50:26.760
You got it.

2150
01:50:27.079 --> 01:50:27.600
You got it.

2151
01:50:27.800 --> 01:50:31.859
But I really loved talking about this one and being

2152
01:50:31.979 --> 01:50:34.630
a bit evil. I feel like we should just restructure

2153
01:50:34.670 --> 01:50:38.670
the show into me being an attorney for the movie.

2154
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And one of us has to be prosecutor and one

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of us has to be defense. But it doesn't matter

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how we actually feel about the movie. That's kind of

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how it is when I'm on Andrew Heaton's alienating the audience,

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because sometimes he really doesn't like the movie. And I

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do because I'm the best audience for most things. So

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I'll just defend every bad choice he says was made

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in the script by like, well, actually, what if it

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was because of this? And he was like, you're like

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01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:02.579
their attorney. Well, that would be saying we got to

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get out of here. It's I got to make you

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some chopped cheeses. So but thank you guys so much

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for hanging out with us. This was a really, really

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fun one. I've had a very stressful couple of weeks,

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even though it was fun. So this ended up being

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really fun, even though I'm recording like nine hours a

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day right now to get ready for Halloween. I hope

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you guys are all excited about Halloween. Our next film,

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you want to tell the kids at home?

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Yeah, well, we did already tease it. So we're going

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to be, we teased it at the beginning of the episode.

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We're going to be watching Hellraiser.

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The original from 1987. 1987. And it's available to watch

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free on Tubi TV with ads. So anybody could check

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out Hellraiser. If you haven't seen it before, that's bizarre.

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But please do check it out. And if you need

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to revisit, it's also on Pluto TV, Amazon Prime, free

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01:51:54.250 --> 01:51:57.350
with ads or with your subscription. Plex, free with ads.

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And of course, you rent it at any place like that.

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That will be our next film. And perfect. That'll be

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our first of two Halloween episodes of Cutting Deep into Horror.

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I think we're going to have a good time with it,

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even if I'm falling asleep and you're pouring espresso into

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my sinuses.

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To keep me awake during it. Oh, I'm going to

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get an IV drip going.

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That's honestly very wise, I think. Thank you guys so

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much for joining us on Cutting Deep into Horror. If

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you want to send us an email, do so at weeklyspookyatgmail.com.

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We'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you

2194
01:52:27.340 --> 01:52:30.500
think about the movie conversations, movies we should watch, movies

2195
01:52:31.119 --> 01:52:32.850
we were right about, wrong about. We would love to

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hear from you. So send us an email, weeklyspooky at gmail.com.

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We'll be back in a couple of weeks sharing even

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more fun about Hellraiser and all the weird stuff that

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comes with Hellraiser. There's a lot of it. I can't wait.

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And if you love what we're doing here, head to weeklyspooky.com

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slash join and find out how you can support us

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for as little as $ 1 a month, get two bonus shows,

2203
01:52:52.329 --> 01:52:54.510
and really make a difference for the show. But now

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I am going to go into my own personal... world

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where I am God and cook a really good dinner. Uh,

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so we'll see you all next time.