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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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Yeah.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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