WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:03.919 If you've been in a relationship long enough, you know 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.919 that eventually you'll start getting on each other's nerves. Maybe 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.160 it's the way they chew, or they don't help out 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.199 around the house much, or they don't support your passions. 5 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:18.160 The best solution is always good communication. Maybe bring in 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.800 a therapist and make sure you can get there. But 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.800 if that doesn't work out, you could always have the 8 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:29.359 neighbors over for a visit. It's the Invite. I'm Ronald 9 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.799 Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater. 10 00:00:52.719 --> 00:01:00.520 With you get what is to be sod Ever is 11 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:15.480 easy because and you based the fison the boos. 12 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:24.799 That you go today. All right, This is Ronald and 13 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:28.640 I am leaving the theater after seeing The Invite. The 14 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:34.799 Invite written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, directed by 15 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:40.359 Olivia Wilde, starring seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penelope Cruz, and 16 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:41.799 Edward Norton. 17 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:42.879 And per Usual. 18 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.640 For a complete listing of the cast and crew, you 19 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.519 could check out the link in our show notes. 20 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.519 It is just me today, Okay. The Invite is a. 21 00:01:54.200 --> 00:02:01.200 Movie about a disillusioned married couple who are going through 22 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:03.760 a tough time in their relationship. 23 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:06.959 And they have. 24 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.599 A dinner party, or they invite their neighbors over to 25 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.639 their upstairs neighbors to come over and see the new 26 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.840 renovations to their apartment and to have a bit of 27 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.800 a dinner, a little hangout, a little little chill session. 28 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:29.280 The disillusion married couple is played by Seth Rogan and 29 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.120 Olivia Wilde, and the neighbors are played by Penelope Cruz 30 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.599 and Edward Norton. One of the main conflicts of the 31 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.080 movie is that the upstairs neighbors, Edward Norton and Penelope 32 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.080 Cruz are having a lot of loud sex, which is 33 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:54.520 disruptive to Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde, and it's also 34 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:59.360 highlighting the parts of the relationship that they are dissatisfied with. 35 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.840 I was told that the inspiration of this movie was 36 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.080 Twelve Angry Men. Twelve Angry Men is one of my 37 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.360 favorite movies. I think it's also a play if I'm 38 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.439 not mistaken. It's one of my favorites. I know that, 39 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.759 and I saw it when I was in eighth grade. 40 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.400 Maybe I think our teacher showed it to us, and 41 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.159 it was very, very very good. It really set the 42 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:31.800 tone for any movie about a jury that came after 43 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.919 it will be compared to Twelve Angry Men, But one 44 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.240 of the main parts about that is that it was 45 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.080 all set in one room. The entire movie takes place 46 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:48.439 in one room, and that is what is happening in 47 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.800 the invite. This movie does a very good job of 48 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.599 playing with tension from the very beginning. There is an 49 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:02.080 instance in which Olivia and I'm forgetting their character name, 50 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.280 so you're gonna have to bear with me. Olivia and 51 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.919 Seth Rogan are in a fight from the very beginning, 52 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.879 and the tension is just continuing to ratchet up. They're 53 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.599 in a fight about whether or not they told each 54 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.120 other about the neighbors coming over. They're in a fight 55 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.680 about whether or not, Seth Rogan, you can eat the 56 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.600 cheese despite being hungry, or eat a pickle despite being hungry. 57 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:28.879 They are Olivia Wilde is making a soufle. There is 58 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.160 just a lot going on. He gives her a compliment 59 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:36.319 at one point and says that her top looks very 60 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:39.160 nice on her, and she responds, you could say things 61 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.720 like that to me, or you never say anything like that, 62 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.240 So there was it was a response that indicated that 63 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.560 he never says stuff like that to her, even though 64 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:52.399 he just did, which was it's very indicative of a 65 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.000 couple who is sick of each other that type of fighting, 66 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:59.560 and so that is the initial tension that Edward Norton 67 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.759 and Penell Cruise are kind of walking into. This is 68 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:08.600 a very performance driven film, and it's it's wild because 69 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:13.839 plot wise, we're really going from charged moment to charged moment. 70 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.360 We're not necessarily going from. 71 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:21.759 It's really just like a work up to a certain point, 72 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.720 and then the movie is about to end. It's an 73 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.199 hour and forty seven minutes. I think it probably could 74 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.360 have been even tighter, but an hour and forty seven 75 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:33.199 minutes is pretty good. 76 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:34.959 And I'm sitting in one ro I'm like, well, I 77 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:36.800 guess would that be considered real time? 78 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.319 There weren't really a lot of cuts, I would say, 79 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.959 from one part to a different part, So yeah, I 80 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:47.120 think it's pretty close to real time, if not completely 81 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.199 in real time, not like one shot or anything like that. 82 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:54.639 I think the easiest way to talk about this is 83 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:56.879 to talk about the performances and then to talk about 84 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:58.240 maybe some of the fights. 85 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.000 Olivia Wilde directs this movie, but she also to me, is. 86 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.399 The standout actor in this film followed very closely by 87 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.399 Seth Rogan, then followed very closely by their interactions between them. 88 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:15.439 Ed Norton and Penelope Cruz also did a good job, 89 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.959 but what they had to do was different from what 90 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.639 Seth Rogan and Olivia Wilde had to do. They were really, 91 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.399 in some ways oblivious to the tension, or better yet, 92 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:31.600 not engaging the tention, or engaging the tension in a 93 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:32.360 way that. 94 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:35.480 Oblivious to the tension is the wrong word. 95 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:41.000 The way in which they engaged the tension was often 96 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.240 to diffuse. It was to acknowledge that it was there, 97 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.120 directed in a different, different way, or acknowledge it was 98 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:49.680 there an attempt to resolve it. 99 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.920 But it wasn't like the tension. 100 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:57.600 They weren't experiencing the discomfort that the audience is feeling 101 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.759 from this relationship that's kind of unraveling in front of us, 102 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.240 so they didn't have to do as much work. Olivia 103 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:11.720 Wilde is performing white woman ness in a very, very 104 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.639 excellent way. It almost reminds me of Oh, I'm gonna 105 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.639 forget her name. I think it's Kate, Oh I forgot 106 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.600 her name. She's on Instagram. She always does these white 107 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:25.079 woman characters and they're always hilarious. It's gonna I'm not. 108 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:26.759 I don't even think I can look up her name 109 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.560 to she only pops up. I follow her on Instagram 110 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.000 and I do not know her name, but every time 111 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.240 she shows up in something, I'm so happy to see her. Ugh. Anyway, 112 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.839 she does very good job of being like the trope 113 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.040 of the white woman, and Olivia Wilde is kneeling just 114 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.680 a particular type of white woman that we all know. 115 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.560 If you see the film, you'll be like, oh, I 116 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.399 know her. Yeah, this is like there's there's some anxiety there. 117 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:57.480 There is this sense of wanting to be liked and 118 00:07:57.800 --> 00:07:59.879 wanting to be accepted, but also wanting things in a 119 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.120 very particular way, but also not wanting to be seen 120 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.199 as uncool or as a Karen, or as any type 121 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:13.000 of unacceptable white woman. Just very this kind of crippling 122 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:19.000 self awareness I would call it. Olivia Wilde's performing it excellently, excellently. 123 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:22.160 I mean, it's just it's palpable through the screen. I 124 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.160 really really feel what's happening her with Seth Rogan. The 125 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.480 fact that they're allowed to kind of in some ways 126 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.120 be openly hostile to each other makes this the type 127 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.559 of movie that a different version of this would be 128 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:41.039 watching people play nice and then unravel over the film, 129 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:47.879 whereas this one is more like, there's no there's no 130 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.879 hiding the tension that exists between these two. There's no 131 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.720 hiding it. So it is still simmering and it is 132 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.200 still kind of sometimes played beneath the surface, but it's 133 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.559 also seth Rogan's role is kind of there to be like, no, 134 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.840 I'm upset, and I am and I do want to 135 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.279 talk about this and this is upsetting to me. But yeah, sure, 136 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:12.639 I'll play along for your dinner party. That's kind of 137 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.679 what he's doing. He's like, yeah, sure, let's go eat, Yeah, sure, 138 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:17.799 let's take a tour. I'm gonna smoke a jay. It's 139 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:22.039 very much that is kind of what he's doing throughout 140 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.200 the course of the movie. Whereas Olivia Wilders where like 141 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:29.279 is everybody okay, okay, oh honey, don't do that, don't 142 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.960 do that, And she's showing anxiety in a way that 143 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.000 I think she thinks that she's still trying to do 144 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.879 a good job of hiding it, but everyone can tell 145 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:45.600 that she is having a tough time. And so when 146 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.519 this movie gets to kind of its main point, which 147 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.960 is that relationships are hard, especially if you've been in 148 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.840 one with a person for a long time, and the 149 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.799 ways in which we blame each other, i e. The 150 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.440 closest person that we can find for our dissatisfaction. It 151 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.519 does that very well. I've been in many relationships in 152 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.720 which I felt many is the wrong word. I've been 153 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:17.559 in relationships in which I felt ultimately dissatisfied about what 154 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:23.720 was happening in the relationship, and I have blamed I've 155 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:27.360 blamed partners for it. I've been like, this is not 156 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.440 this is obviously this is happening because I'm in the 157 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:36.159 wrong relationship, not because I'm unhappy in any other way, 158 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.919 or not because I'm failing to communicate in a way 159 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:46.440 that would be effective. And several times the ethos of 160 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.720 this movie is really saying, what are you going to 161 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:51.360 do about it? 162 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:52.840 How are you going to change that? 163 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:58.039 How are you going to change your circumstances in front 164 00:10:58.039 --> 00:10:58.240 of you? 165 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:00.639 What can you do differently? 166 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.399 And it's wild because I watch a movie like this 167 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.240 and I automatically start thinking about myself and say, yeah, well, 168 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.039 what would I change about me? What could I do differently? 169 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:21.639 The problem is I often assume that it's me, which 170 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.399 Seth Rogan does well. Seth Rogan does a very good 171 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:29.679 job of there's an allusion to something happening and Seth 172 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.960 being surprised that he would be included in the something 173 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:33.600 that's happening. 174 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.639 That's a very thinly veiled. 175 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.039 Try to keep it away from spoilers here, but he's like, oh, 176 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.440 also me, and I feel that with him, where I'm 177 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.080 just like, oh, I would also be included in this, 178 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.200 or oh, you're interested in me, or oh, yes, you're 179 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:53.360 talking to me that type. Whenever I think about that feeling, 180 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.759 I know that that is very the feeling of self 181 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:01.600 inadequacy or surprise to be desired or to be wanted 182 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:08.080 in a certain way. Is it is something that it 183 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:12.879 hurts relationships. And I think that they performed it that well. 184 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.159 Is I mean, it's just very good. I'm not doing 185 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.720 a very good job because it's hard to talk about 186 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.960 this movie without just straight up saying what's going on. 187 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:25.799 So I'll jump into spoilers real quick starting now. 188 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:27.879 I would encourage you that if you're going to see 189 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:29.679 this movie, to go see it and then come back 190 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.480 and listen to the spoilers. But I think it's important 191 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.159 to really like get into the nitty gritty of what 192 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:36.759 the movie's about. 193 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:38.200 So I'm gonna talk about some spoilers. 194 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.120 So the whole thing is that they're upstairs neighbors, are 195 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:48.440 their polyamorous, their swingers, and they have come downstairs because 196 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.080 they want to invite. 197 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.120 Seth Rogen and Olivia. 198 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.960 Wilde to have sex with him, to have group sex 199 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:57.879 with them, and it's. 200 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.840 Seth Rogan Is is surprised. 201 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.279 He's like, wait, also me, like you would also want 202 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.399 me to be a part of this, which is very subtle, 203 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:12.080 but it also speaks to like something very specific that 204 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.519 I know of myself as a man. And I won't 205 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.039 talk more generally about men, but it will say the 206 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.279 idea that I could be included or I could be 207 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.840 desired is somewhat novel, and I think he does a 208 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:28.200 very good job of performing that. Penelope Cruz is meant 209 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.840 to be kind of like the facilitator, very sexy throughout 210 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.399 the throughout the film, and so when the sex parts 211 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.080 start coming up, there's a way in which she is 212 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.080 approaching it where she feels like she is facilitating the 213 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.679 connection for all four of them, followed closely by Edward Norton, 214 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.360 who is kind of doing the the a similar role, 215 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:50.600 but not exactly what Penelope Cruz is doing. He's more 216 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.519 like a He almost gives more ra camp counselor vibes 217 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.080 like hey, guys, you know if you're upset, like, let's 218 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.039 try to work through this, Like, come on, let's all 219 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:02.919 work together. He's more like being amenable to the situation 220 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.799 that is unfolding in front of him, whereas the more 221 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:11.000 resistance is coming from Seth Rogan. And this kind of 222 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.000 like I'm trying to figure out. In Olivia Wilde's case, 223 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:19.080 she is very interested and very game for what could 224 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:25.720 happen next between them. She doesn't need much convincing to say, yes, absolutely, 225 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.919 let's do this. I've heard Padelope cruizes orgasms from upstairs. 226 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.320 I would like that. How can I also be a 227 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:32.879 part of this? 228 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.120 And so like, the tension that exists between Olivia Wilde 229 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:42.039 and Seth Rogan comes out of this kind of resentment 230 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.919 towards each other, for each of them being the perceived 231 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:52.720 source of their unhappiness. I am unhappy because my wife 232 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:57.279 makes me miserable. I am unhappy because my husband is miserable. 233 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.279 And it's funny because seth Rogen at one point says, 234 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.799 why don't you just let me be miserable, and Olivia 235 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.360 Wilde is like, you have nothing to be miserable about. 236 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.519 You are working in the field that you graduated in, 237 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.120 and you live in a beautiful house. And he's like, well, 238 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.519 I don't own the house, and I'm not playing music. 239 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.919 I'm teaching music, and neither of them. They're kind of 240 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.679 talking past each other in this specific way. And there's 241 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.039 one part in which there's an indication that Olivia Wilde 242 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.080 doesn't want to be a stay at home mom, that 243 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.279 she would rather be using her art skills to be 244 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:34.799 doing something because she went to art. 245 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:36.200 School and is an artist. 246 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:38.639 And then there's an indication that they used to be 247 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:43.000 best friends and they're just not there anymore. So it's 248 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.480 they play around with all of the tension, and it's 249 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:49.519 interesting that the vehicle to kind of express the tension 250 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:56.919 ultimately is group sex with their neighbors, or the idea 251 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.639 or possible group sex with their neighbors. 252 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.440 I'll say so. 253 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.519 Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was 254 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.200 pretty good. You know, it reminds me, it reminds me 255 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:12.799 it feels like in the same family movie family of 256 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:18.679 movies as the drama. Definitely more going on emotionally in 257 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:25.080 this film than in quite a few other films. I mean, 258 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.919 I just saw The Odyssey, so I think there's more 259 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.840 going on emotionally in this film than in The Odyssey. 260 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.360 I think The Odyssey does a pretty good job. 261 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.960 But someone described it as saying it was a beautiful 262 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.200 technical film, but it didn't make them feel anything, and 263 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.440 I remember thinking, yeah, I could see that this is 264 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.120 more on the The Odyssey is more on the wow 265 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.320 factor than on the feelings factor, even though it tries 266 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.080 to insert the feelings in there, and I did feel things, 267 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.200 but I feel like in terms of feelings to impressive ratio, 268 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:58.320 the impressive ratio impressive was higher than feelings, whereas this 269 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.120 one very high on the feelings. Like the performances were 270 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:07.319 very good, very impressive. There's nothing technically great about this film. 271 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.920 I mean, it's just technical in the sense of there's 272 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.880 no big set pieces or anything like that. They're just 273 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:15.640 in a house having a discussion. 274 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:16.720 It's very much. 275 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.000 Like a one act play or a two act play, 276 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.200 like very much black box theater, almost where it's like 277 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:25.720 it's not even important. The props or the thing that's 278 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:30.440 in there. It's really the performances that matter the most. Yeah, 279 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:32.599 but it really did make me feel and make me 280 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.720 and I watched it first thing in the morning, so 281 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:39.680 I still little groggy waking up all that, but it's 282 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.160 still hit me right in the fields. It kind of 283 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:50.079 reminds me of I just watched The Roses, and I 284 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:54.960 think the Roses used more of all of the movie 285 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.960 making toolkit that they have, meaning the scenes and the 286 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.640 places and the sets, the costume design, all of that 287 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:05.359 is way more important in a movie like that, which 288 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.160 also is about relationships, than something like The Invite, where 289 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.559 this is more about the bare bones performances. With all 290 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.960 of that being said, I think it's a four star movie. 291 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:17.559 I did not like it as much as I liked 292 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:19.960 the drama. I think the drama did a little bit 293 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:31.599 better job of conveying the isolation of truth in a 294 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:37.319 way that this one is more about the conflict of reality. 295 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.599 And it might feel like I'm just making up words, 296 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:46.400 but the conflict of reality meaning that to exist and 297 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:50.119 to be in partnership with someone means that in reality 298 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:54.519 you are living in conflict. Now, some people would be like, no, 299 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.559 you're not well, there is some conflict there because it's 300 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.680 a different person. You have to make decisions together. You're 301 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:01.799 never really just thinking of something you want to do. 302 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.119 You're thinking of what is best for both of you, 303 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:10.160 which is a conflicted reality, as opposed to having stated 304 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.559 something and having to deal with the fallout of the 305 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:15.920 truth being out in the open, which is what the 306 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.039 drama is doing. Both of them are dealing with relationships 307 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.759 with other people, and maybe I just prefer one over 308 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.440 the other, but I just think the drama, it just 309 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:27.400 it drew me into this better. It's kind of like 310 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.039 the same way that I've really recently really would have 311 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:34.200 been wanted to rewatch past lives. I've really wanted to 312 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.880 rewatch that because I think that is another thing that 313 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.119 is very good at confronting kind of both the conflict 314 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:46.920 of reality and the isolation of truth, meaning that when 315 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.960 the truth is out, how isolating it can feel, and 316 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:55.640 then living in a reality that is by many that's 317 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.759 conflicted by all accounts, is very conflicted. 318 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.000 So yeah, I give this four stars. 319 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:03.559 I don't even know if I reviewed this movie as 320 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:05.599 much as I just talked existentially about a lot of 321 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.160 things that are bothering me while losing some of my words. 322 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.920 But yeah, this is Yeah, it's a four star movie. 323 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:13.359 I think it's a four star movie. I give it 324 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.759 the same as The Odyssey because I think it's the 325 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:20.480 feeling spectrum in the opposite direction while not being a 326 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:24.440 big visual spectacle, but feelings wise, I really felt this 327 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:30.039 movie four stars and with that leaving the theater. Is 328 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.359 a production of Oh It's Big Ron Studios. Currently it 329 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.480 is Friday morning. Right now, it's noon. I got to 330 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:39.079 this movie at nine twenty, watching it first thing. So 331 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.720 I can edit this on Sunday or maybe later today 332 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:44.960 or tomorrow, who knows, so I can get this out 333 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.279 for Monday. Keep the train rolling along. Just got back 334 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.240 from a week and a half long recording trip. Went 335 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:54.519 to LA for a week, then to New York for 336 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.640 three days. Now I'm back and I am writing and 337 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:04.119 editing and about to announce the newest oh It's Big 338 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.799 Ron Studios project. That announcement will come first on Patreon. 339 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.680 My goal is to announce it very soon on Patreon. 340 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:16.960 I am my own biggest enemy. I have to actually 341 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:18.960 film the announcement. Make sure I know what I'm saying, 342 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.160 make sure it's a video that makes sense. Then I 343 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.519 have to edit the video, put it on Patreon while 344 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.960 also planning to watch a movie. Put that out while 345 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:35.680 also writing, listening to highlighting, editing, cutting tape, getting. 346 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:36.680 Ready to give it to my editors. 347 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.880 We can go back and forth about writing full episodes 348 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:45.440 of the new podcast. It's a lot of labor. It's 349 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:47.799 a labor of love, but it's still labor. If that 350 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.599 means something to you, join the Patreon go to patreon 351 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.279 dot com slash oh It's Big Ron, or go to 352 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:57.759 the link in our show notes. Show art from Heather Wilder, 353 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:02.440 theme music by the Mysterious Breakmasters. For more information about 354 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:04.720 the invite, check out our show notes. 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