WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.120 The Projection Booth podcast is sponsored by Scarecrow Video. Try 2 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:07.240 out Scarecrow's rent by mail service. Choose from over one 3 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:10.720 hundred and fifty thousand films and get Blu rays, four 4 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:15.160 k's and DVD's delivered directly to your door. Visit scarecrow 5 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:16.280 dot com today. 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.600 Oh gez, folks, it's showtime. 7 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:27.960 People say good money to see this movie when they 8 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.760 go out to a theater. They want clothed sodas, hot 9 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.880 popcorn in. No monsters in the projection booths. 10 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.840 Everyone for tend podcasting isn't boring. 11 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:37.719 Got it off. 12 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:12.799 OSCA then just actually nanso for slash diac smo of 13 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.319 oda shall yeah. 14 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:26.040 M every day you remainder me snaps laps. 15 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:36.920 Yaku, bait, takuruda so pakamash coskati. 16 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:53.760 Rasa to guitarus go blutop. 17 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:58.599 A sma san soda do. 18 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.000 Plan play basic. 19 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:20.080 Noish love babyropa ah be a girl, Yes, jerosla via 20 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:36.879 blissa you know the love of Yes, clinics lesser. 21 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.280 Shark y ven. 22 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:53.759 Naru stab heaven, she erected. 23 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:59.919 Tastyam set dream. 24 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:37.919 Yeah, let's be shsta bistromashnapay. 25 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:27.680 A. 26 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:34.879 Welcome to the Projection Booth. I'm your host, Mike White, 27 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.639 join me once again as mister Rob Saint Mary. I 28 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.319 give the Bolsheviks a year two with the most Also 29 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.400 back in the booth is mister Philip Marinello. 30 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.039 You said we'd always choose dads together. 31 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.680 We are kicking off Cheptember twenty twenty five with cozy Dents. However, 32 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.120 there's no fiddle faddle here. Also known as Palishki, it 33 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.599 is based on a book called Why Do I Do 34 00:03:58.719 --> 00:03:59.280 This to Myself? 35 00:03:59.360 --> 00:03:59.560 Guys? 36 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.759 It's based on a book called joven no hori, which 37 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:08.000 translates as the very simple title shit on Fire. Directed 38 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.800 by Jan Erbecht and written by Peter Jarchowski, the film 39 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.879 is a bittersweet coming of age tales set in the 40 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:21.040 months from Christmas nineteen sixty seven up to the nineteen 41 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.360 sixty eight Prague Spring, which, if you weren't paying attention, 42 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.759 that was January fifth, nineteen sixty eight. We will be 43 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.360 spoiling this film as we go along, so if you 44 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.000 don't want anything ruined, turn off the podcast and come 45 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.920 on back after you've seen the film, we will still 46 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.360 be here. So Rob, you were actually the one who 47 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.920 brought this film to my attention. When did you first 48 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.839 see it and what did you think when you first 49 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:43.160 saw it? 50 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.759 It was about two years ago around this time of year, 51 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.040 so August September, and I have a friend of mine 52 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.879 who's from Detroit, and I decided to go visit him 53 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:53.360 in Prague. 54 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:54.160 He always had this. 55 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.920 Hey, anyone wants to come visit. I got extra bedroom. 56 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.480 I was like, I raised aunt. So I got to 57 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.800 spend ten days in Prague, who was lovely and just 58 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.360 had a really wonderful time there. And as part of that, 59 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.240 my friend Rick was showing me some movies. He's watched 60 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.160 some check film. He's an American and he doesn't speak 61 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.199 the language, he knows the culture. He traveled there when 62 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.120 he was a kid. He's got friends and stuff like that, 63 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:20.639 and he went there to go work with an artist 64 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:25.199 originally who's pretty well known. But anyway, so we watched 65 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.600 closely watch Trains, which I believe I had seen before 66 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.199 and I think you've done on the show. And then 67 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:34.240 he watched showed me this movie. Now what was funny 68 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.279 is when he showed me this movie. The next day 69 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.720 we went to go visit some of his friends and 70 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.399 they're like, why are you showing him Christmas movie. They're like, 71 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.959 that's like the progue national Christmas movie, Like it's August 72 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.199 tell you doing. And so because of the Christmas themes, 73 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.600 you know, as we get into it, and if you 74 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.959 get a chance to see it, you'll understand why that is, 75 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:56.519 because half the film is takes place in Christmas time. 76 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:01.399 And so this has become looking at letterbox, I'm on 77 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.600 letterbox now and looked at the reviews for this, and 78 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.040 most of them are in Check. But there's those who 79 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.759 put an English review in who are either Americans or 80 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.279 they have some tie to in the English speaking world, 81 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.759 and they say, yeah, this is just a holiday classical. 82 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.079 Family gets together and watches this, which. 83 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:22.279 Is really interesting when you consider that the movie kind 84 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.720 of jokes about suicide three times, to which my friend 85 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:26.639 Rick would say, you know what, the check they have 86 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.040 a really dark sense of humor, and they do, but 87 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.000 in a way, this one is kind of light. And 88 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:33.920 I really enjoyed it, and I thought, hey, I don't know, 89 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.480 if you know this movie, maybe you should. 90 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:37.480 Do it for your check series. 91 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:39.800 And Philip, was this a new one for you? 92 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:42.680 Yeah, this was absolutely a new one. I was telling 93 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.240 you before I recorded as a long Time Projection booth listener. 94 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.120 I have added many chick films to my watch list 95 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:51.639 over the years, but I've never watched along. Some are 96 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.959 harder to find than others, but I just never had before. 97 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:56.720 So when you're like, hey, this is what we're doing. 98 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.800 I went into it relatively blind. I knew that it 99 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.160 was about families over a holiday, but that's about it. 100 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:07.000 And I loved it. This was quite a discovery. 101 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.439 This was also a new one for me, and yeah, 102 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.680 I'm glad that you brought this to my attention. 103 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:13.040 Rob. 104 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.439 I really was not familiar with the writer, not familiar 105 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.720 with the director. They I think had aired up a 106 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:24.319 few times and also adapted another one of the author's stories. 107 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.399 I want to say for an earlier film. I now 108 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:29.639 need to go back and see some of these other things. 109 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.040 But I can see why this is a holiday classic, 110 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.000 not just because it's set at the holiday time, right 111 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.279 at this very critical moment, but also it reminds me 112 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.600 a lot of a Christmas story. It reminds me of 113 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.600 a whole bunch of vignettes strung together. We don't have 114 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.199 a narrator, we don't have that what was the guy's 115 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.319 name that the gene shepherd that did those. 116 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:55.240 I can't remember. 117 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.720 It's been a minute since I've seen a Christmas story, 118 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.079 but I used to watch that ever Christmas pretty religiously, 119 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.879 and I can see watching a movie like this because 120 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.639 it has that same flavor of dysfunction amongst the family. 121 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.480 But with this one, you've got a few families and 122 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:16.680 just seeing the dysfunction amongst them, and how everyone interacts 123 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.160 or doesn't interact, who hates each other, who gets along, 124 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.000 how things change, alliances move, because not only do you 125 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.639 have the family aspect, but then you've got the political 126 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.759 aspect as well. Who's going to come out on top, 127 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.720 who's on the bottom. Like you said, I give the 128 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.320 Bolsheviks one year, maybe two tops. And this is right 129 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.480 before the tanks roll in, and we actually have the 130 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.840 scenes of not necessarily seeing the tanks, but hearing the 131 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.919 air raid sirens and all these things, and just shit 132 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:48.600 gets real. 133 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.759 Real at the end of this, And yeah, it's a 134 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:54.159 real eye opener. 135 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.960 For me and Mary Christmas, God bless us everyone. 136 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:00.600 The thing is, there is a narrator. There's a little 137 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:01.879 bit at the beginning and the end. 138 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:03.840 If I take it, it's the kid. 139 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.399 And like I said that, I have a problem with 140 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.279 the names of the characters. I just say that the 141 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.039 one boy who's the boy in the communist family who 142 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.200 in the very first scene is trying to hang himself 143 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.480 our protagon. Yeah, and so you get the feeling that 144 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.879 everything is viewed through his lens and because he's oh, 145 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.519 I was almost sixteen when this happened, and that really 146 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.759 you only get him voiceovering in the very beginning of 147 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:30.279 the very end. 148 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:30.679 That's it. 149 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.799 There's not all this commentary through the rest. And then 150 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.120 there's really only one other scene that I can think 151 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.759 of off the top of my head where we get 152 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.279 his interiority, where it's this is what he's feeling or 153 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:42.240 thinking in the moment. 154 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.840 Oh yes, oh god, I know exactly what you're talking about. 155 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.639 I kind of like that because one of the things 156 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.919 that we often talk about is and voiceover can be good. 157 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.080 I'm a big fan of when I know we've debated 158 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.320 this and go back and listen to the Blade Runner episode, 159 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.480 I really like the voiceover Blade Runners. But a lot 160 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.759 of times a voiceover in a movie is a crutch. 161 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.360 It's I don't know exactly what they do. So we're 162 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:07.840 going to tie it all together with a voiceover. 163 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:12.120 Just to clarify, I was not the one who doesn't 164 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:16.039 like the voiceover in Blade Runner, so it was our 165 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.039 third person who I believe doesn't like that. 166 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:19.120 So I'm with you. 167 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.000 You know, Sushi cold fish. That's why my wife always 168 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:23.799 calls me. That's a classic. 169 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.840 The other thing that's interesting in here, and I don't 170 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:30.200 know if I think Mike, obviously you may have a 171 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.600 little historical background. Philip, I'm not sure about your historical background. 172 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.519 I don't know how much you need to know about 173 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:42.080 check as the area, yeah, or the prog spring. I 174 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.440 think it adds. There's a scene later I'll talk about that. 175 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.320 It really adds if you get it. But as long 176 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.600 as you understand they're under communism, they're under socialism, that's 177 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:54.320 really all I think you really need to know. I 178 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.679 don't think it really goes that far in depth. They 179 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.240 and of course the audience they're expecting you're going to 180 00:10:59.279 --> 00:10:59.919 bring that anyway. 181 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.559 The first blush too, I mentioned a Christmas story. The 182 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.200 other thing this really reminded me of was better Off 183 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.440 Dead with that suicide attempt at the beginning, or maybe 184 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.600 even a little bit of Harold and Maud when he's 185 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.200 laying in bed and his sister's coming in, like lifting 186 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.399 his arm up and it keeps flopping down, and then 187 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.559 he eventually sneaks up on her and scares her half 188 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.440 to death. But yeah, it's got that great dark humor 189 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:24.559 that I love so much. 190 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.519 It was so funny, Like I can see why this 191 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.799 would be a regular and if there was a good 192 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.039 addition around. I don't know if i'd watch this every year, 193 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.000 but I'd watch this. This would be such a fun 194 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.120 movie to have people or be like, hey, let me 195 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.759 introduce you to something, because I'm sure, like in Letterbox 196 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.240 only not that many people have seen it. 197 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.559 I was really confused when it came to the name 198 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:53.919 of this movie being calling Cozy Dends because it's actually 199 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.360 in English title. I did not know that because cozy 200 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.279 in this case is spelled cos y, so we've got 201 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.399 the English spelling of cozy. So for me as an American, 202 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.840 I'm like, oh, cozy, coz y. So when I see 203 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.960 Cozy Den's, I'm just like, oh, Cozy Dens, like putting 204 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:11.919 an accent on it. 205 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.559 I thought it was a foreign title too. It's like, 206 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:18.720 all right, whatever, I'm not sure what this means, but okay, I. 207 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.759 Like shit on fire. Shit on fire would be good. 208 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.120 I think maybe that would cross over and be like, oh, 209 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:25.799 shit on fire? 210 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:26.679 Was that on fire? 211 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.360 Yeah, well, sign me up for that movie. Two tickets please. 212 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.639 But when you talk about cozy dens, it makes sense 213 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.600 because most of it takes place in one building. I 214 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:37.960 don't want to call them capitalists so much, but the 215 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.679 anti communist family lives at the top and they have more. 216 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:45.559 And then there's the guy who's body in his family, 217 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:47.960 who's where the narrator comes from, and he lives in 218 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.120 the middle, and then in the bottom floor. I believe, 219 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.799 if I'm remembering the architecture of the building, the bottom 220 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.519 floor is the sister of the communists, and she's the 221 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.679 single mom teacher at the school where all the kids go. 222 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.000 If you look at it, it's three little animal dens. 223 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:08.559 And that's how I looked at it. These are our 224 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.600 little worlds, and we build our little worlds. And the 225 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.759 thing that I find interesting is the crossover between the 226 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.519 worlds that happen from time to time. Obviously they all 227 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.720 become interlinked by the end, and also the fact that 228 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.279 there's certain things it doesn't matter what strata you're in, 229 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.919 it doesn't matter what if you're a communist if you're not. 230 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:32.960 Especially those guys, the fathers and those two households, they 231 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.120 both have a problem with their kid and they think 232 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:38.720 that they're like leading to the downfall of society because 233 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:40.840 this one's got a mc jagger poster and the other 234 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.960 one wants to call dumpling something else and is dating, 235 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:46.440 you know, a hippie boyfriend. 236 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:47.919 Yeah, that was funny. 237 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.360 Oh the speech that he gives is so good. 238 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.399 And there's a lot of really like beautiful set pieces 239 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.919 in here, in the way that they're written. And then 240 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.320 the crossover between the three because it's like they're each 241 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:03.279 having a Chris Missus demial and they cut back between 242 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.519 the three of them and what's going on and then 243 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:11.799 what's going on within each one. There's certain dynamics depending 244 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.240 and that's why I really loved it is I'm just 245 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:16.960 like it's just really well done. It's like really well 246 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.440 written and acted and directed, and it's so for me, 247 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.639 it just really comes together really nicely. 248 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:28.080 Yeah, the relationships, like everything felt so like universal, like 249 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.960 you can show anybody of this. It's not i don't know, 250 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.960 like ten and up, Like it's pretty there's a very 251 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.399 small amount of profanity, but there's the full spectrum of life, 252 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.679 like you've got kids who've got parents who got middle aged, 253 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.879 like all the single mom stuff like hilarious and heartbreaking, 254 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:51.960 her trying over and over to find somebody, either finding 255 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.159 weirdos or being sabotaged by her son, like that scene 256 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.919 where he puts on the record player like that killed me. 257 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.600 But it also gets funny, but it's also really sad, 258 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.559 and it's sad for everybody involved, Like this woman is 259 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.440 trying to find stability for her and her son, and 260 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:12.399 in that scene that guy was trying, like not a 261 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.919 great guy, but just all the humanity was bare. And 262 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.000 you've got the love triangle with the young people, and 263 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.679 you've got as a movie with movies featured well in it, 264 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.679 the cinema that he has that the whole like square 265 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.120 of people come out to watch him project on the sheet. 266 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:34.320 There were so many beautiful and universal moments in this. 267 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.720 I feel like this be watchable at any time. Obviously 268 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.519 it's a great Christmas movie, but this is immensely watchable 269 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:43.440 I think at any time. 270 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:48.080 The whole influence of the West, with the like you said, 271 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.559 the McJagger poster, all the needle drops in this. It's 272 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:56.159 got a fantastic soundtrack and that I found pretty easy. 273 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.879 There's a website called I Think It's Super Fun, and 274 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.799 that's usually where I go when I want to buy 275 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.399 music from some of these movies, which is great and 276 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.919 pretty reasonably priced too, as long as I'm figuring out 277 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.559 my international exchange rate. 278 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:13.960 Okay. 279 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.399 And it's interesting I mentioned how these guys had worked 280 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.559 together before, the writer, director, and then even the novelist 281 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.279 who was alive at the time that this was made. 282 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.480 The novelist was the three of them. I don't know 283 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.639 how many times they worked together, but they had worked 284 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:33.399 together on a film from ninety three called Sakka le Leta, 285 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:38.039 and that is a musical comedy. So it's in the 286 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.919 fifties and just the changing face of the times. 287 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.399 With the whole rock and roll thing. 288 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.559 And yeah, the needle drops in this and all of 289 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:50.120 the musical moments in this are just fantastic and some 290 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:55.039 great songs. I really appreciated that they were not just 291 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.799 using Western songs that had made it through the Iron Curtain. 292 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:04.079 These were actual real people from the time. This was 293 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.759 almost a little American graffiti esque. When it came to 294 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:08.480 the soundtrack. 295 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.119 And this is where if you understand a little bit 296 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.480 of history it's helpful, is that you know, Czechoslovakia was 297 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.039 kind of left alone. He had a little bit of openness. 298 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.440 It could run its own affairs as well as it 299 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.880 could go so far but not too far. And that's 300 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.640 what happened with the Prugu Spring was it was finally 301 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.519 like Russia was like, no, y'all gone too far, and 302 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.160 then that's why they rolled the tanks in. So the 303 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:36.000 fact that it is a little bit looser and hipper 304 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:40.279 and feels a little more quote unquote West than maybe 305 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.960 what you might be used to for living under communist 306 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:47.400 movies from the East, I think it gives a perspective 307 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.920 for Americans who don't understand or maybe would like to 308 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.400 learn more. Not to say it's a documentary, there's historical 309 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:56.079 aspects in there. 310 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.000 It's nice. Yeah. 311 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.839 I think American graffiti is actually a really great parallel 312 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.240 for it, where it's like it's a place in time 313 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.799 and then just people bumping into each other living life 314 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.599 like vignettes like in a movie like that really is timeless. 315 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.200 Each person has their own arc and many of them 316 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:20.000 are fulfilling, but there's just really great lines. I don't 317 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.720 know how accurate the subtitles were that I saw, but 318 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.319 I laughed several times, like good, well written jokes and 319 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:28.359 really good delivery. 320 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.720 That's a good parallel I hadn't thought of because in 321 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:36.319 a way, American graffiti is using Vietnam as the catastrophe. 322 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:37.799 It's gonna pull people apart. 323 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.559 Yeah, it's like the change in time and how the 324 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:46.039 change in culture also impacts people going through life. 325 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.039 And that's really what the prug Spring ended up doing. 326 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.839 Was it ended up being after that clamped down, and 327 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.599 you have to get to nineteen eighty nine, the early 328 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:01.119 nineties before all of this finally breaks apart and they 329 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.880 get back to where they were in that period right 330 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.400 before this. So there's like a twenty year period of 331 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:10.519 darkness that kind of follows right after this. So in 332 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.960 a way, like you were saying, that's very stupid, makes 333 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.000 a lot of sense in that way. 334 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:14.880 I read it that way. 335 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.640 Yeah, probably were not playing John Wayne movies in public 336 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:19.480 during that time. 337 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:23.240 Now, and when it comes to the chickness of it, 338 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.160 I mean, there are definitely some very check things. And 339 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:28.599 here the whole thing with the carp and the bathtub, 340 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.519 I remember watching the Cremator, and I was. 341 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:33.960 Just like, what is this thing? 342 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.160 Why is Copper can go like going out and getting 343 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.359 this Pike or sorry Pike. 344 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:40.799 I was thinking of Psycho Pike. 345 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:43.720 You've been in fact, I've been infected by the fights. 346 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:46.279 We've gone from Psycho Pike to Christmas carp So there 347 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:46.480 you go. 348 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.440 And yeah, he would he had this pike in his 349 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.480 bathtub and I was just like, what is this whole 350 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.559 thing is? Oh, it's the Christmas meal. 351 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:55.319 And then I like this whole thing. 352 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.720 There's a few jokes that play into this whole thing 353 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.839 of said an. 354 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.480 Uncle, like the father and the uncle that the two brothers. 355 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:07.200 Okay, yeah, so he is back. 356 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.440 And forth was hilario. When we first saw the fish, 357 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:13.559 I thought, I was like, is he hallucinating? What is this? 358 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:17.680 I'm I am not a check a fishinado? And I 359 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.759 was like, oh, is he did he? Is he like 360 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:23.720 having a hallucination? Did he pass out underwater? Is this 361 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:24.559 fish gonna talk? 362 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:24.720 Like? 363 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:26.480 I had no idea what was happening. 364 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:29.559 I didn't know that either, like I said, until I 365 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:31.920 watched the movie, and then I like, I said. My 366 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.400 friend Rick, who lives in Czech Public explained to me, 367 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.720 he goes, it's a Christmas tradition, that's the old Christmas tradition. 368 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:39.599 And what it was is they would take they would 369 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:45.160 catch a pike, now like a car a carb. Carp, yes, pike, yeah, carp. 370 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.839 Pikes and carbs are off in bottom feeders anyway, So anyway, 371 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.000 they take the carp and they put it in the 372 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.640 bathtub for a few days. Now, the reason for this 373 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.000 is that it's supposed to clean out the fish because 374 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:01.759 usually they're gritty because they're down there feeding among the MUCKs. 375 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.839 So they say it helps it to taste better. So 376 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:06.920 that'sthom for you. 377 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.559 Yeah, inside and out. 378 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.240 But the brothers, so the one is the father of 379 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.359 the narrator, who is the guy who's I guess he's 380 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.599 a commissar or something and he's something in the Communist party, 381 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:24.960 is what you get. And his brother, who doesn't agree 382 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.839 with him, just are at each other. So like the 383 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.880 brother and the mother that comes over, so the grandmother 384 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.519 of the boy, and he also has a little sister, 385 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:36.440 so like the whole family. And then it's like the 386 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.640 two men in the room, they're just at each other 387 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:39.799 to just constantly trying. 388 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:41.079 To one up some oh, I know this, and I 389 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.119 know that, oh do you? And then it's oh, you 390 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.839 can't do this, and it's just. 391 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.480 Ridiculous, and the mother is that the grandmother is, oh, God, 392 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.119 come on, guys, don't do this. 393 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.039 Yeah, and they get to do this whole thing about 394 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.319 holding their breath, and then that ends up with him 395 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.200 in that bathtub holding his breath underwater because he would 396 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.160 be cheating otherwise seeing that carp and then it's the 397 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:08.319 whole thing. If that carp is here, what were we 398 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:11.240 just eating? And then finding out that the dad is 399 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:13.160 too chicken to kill the carp. 400 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.839 Well, and I also love the payoff of like bickering, 401 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:21.119