WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:04.960 Weird. 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:57.719 We welcome back midnight viewers to Father them Alone's weekly 3 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.600 round up slash Unintended Sophy Thatcher Film Festival. I'm Father 4 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.840 Malone and with me playing the as yet unseen portion 5 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.439 of Natalie's life between Juliet Lewis and Sophie Thatcher is 6 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:14.120 miss Ripley. Gen it's a Yellowjacket's reference. Yeah, you didn't 7 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.879 get through the pilot. You remember I said, did I 8 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.879 program the music in this series like every five minutes? 9 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.599 And then everyone was wearing horns and they were eating ears. 10 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.560 You were most likely sleeping. Ripley enjoys sleeping, but we 11 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.760 hope you're awake and alive in kicking and listening along. 12 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.519 And as I sit in my Captain America themed office chair, 13 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.799 wearing a Captain America themed thermal, looking down at my 14 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.480 Captain America Tech two, I'd like to say to my 15 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:45.200 fellow Americans, Nil's desperandum that's more than a quippie line 16 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.959 from Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka. Isn't it a crime that 17 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 we have to specify which Willy Wonka Nil's desperandum means 18 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:56.200 never to spare Some see hope as dangerous. I think 19 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.439 it's a defining trait of the nation, and neither should 20 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.319 be a bandoned. I can't imagine if you hated that, 21 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.359 you'd be inclined to subscribe for more of my nonsense. 22 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.640 But now's the time on the show when I say 23 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:11.439 head on over to patreon dot com slash fatherm alone. 24 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:14.360 Subscribers get early access to all the shows and their 25 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.840 commercial free, and we have a bonus subscriber show with 26 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.240 a whole bunch of new, weirder ones on the way. 27 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.680 It is always difficult for an actor to play the 28 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:27.960 younger self of a well established star, but that factor 29 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:31.520 of difficulty increases exponentially when we all knew that well 30 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.240 established star at the age of the younger actor is 31 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.000 portraying them. We all saw cape Fear, we all saw 32 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.280 natural born killers. We've got an idea of what Juliette 33 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.159 Lewis was like as a younger woman, and those two 34 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.840 rules are a pretty good barometer of her range. So 35 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:49.840 we not only know how she looked, but her capabilities, 36 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.400 which have always been ferocious. Before we go down this 37 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.319 route of an entire episode about the wonders of Sophie Thatcher, 38 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.800 I want to say something about Juliette Lewis. I fucking 39 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:01.680 adore her. I don't know her, never met her, don't 40 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.520 know her personal convictions, but god damn it, I am 41 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.879 happy she's breathing the same air I am. Not only 42 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.039 does she have ferocity, but she has conviction. Most actors, 43 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.159 when they get into music, they don't commit to it. 44 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.520 Check out Juliet and the Licks. Sometime she decided she 45 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.360 was not only going to be a musician, but she 46 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.319 was going to be a fucking rock star. And she 47 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.840 fucking did it. Knowing that. When it came time to 48 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.000 cast the series Yellowjackets, it must have been daunting for 49 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.960 the creators and potential actresses to fill Miss Lewis's younger shoes. 50 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.719 But Sophie Thatcher nails it. And then, in a twist 51 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.159 worthy of both of Tonight's selections, turns out they didn't 52 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.039 cast it that way at all. Miss Thatcher was cast, 53 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.159 and then they cast Juliet Lewis to match her intensity. 54 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.000 It's a good call, a great call. The young Chicagoan 55 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:54.159 is the contender for horror film greatness. Most actors pivot 56 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.280 as far from the genre that made them famous as 57 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:00.400 they can with their next choices, particularly if it's horror. Sure, 58 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.319 Jamie Lee Curtis fully embraces her scream queen Moniker these days, 59 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.840 but that's only with Halloween. You never hear her waxing 60 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:11.479 nostalgic about Terror Train or prom Night, and you certainly 61 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.000 didn't hear it in the years following her tenure in 62 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.399 the Terror Ghetto. So to go from a horror series, 63 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.600 fuck your thriller designations, your mystery box dramas. Yellow Jackets 64 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.279 is about cannibals and something dark and primordial. Even if 65 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.319 it is a deconstruction of teenage hierarchy and it's greater 66 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:32.240 reflection of societal organization, it's a horror show. For her 67 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.399 to step out of a horror series and then into 68 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:39.759 not one, but two horror projects is wildly refreshing. In 69 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.560 these two movies were big fucking surprises for me, owing 70 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.759 slightly to the fact that I made a conscious decision 71 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.519 a few months ago to avoid any and all info 72 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.240 about either film, which I was successful, But I wasn't 73 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:55.120 necessarily avoiding the usual studio promotional material. It was the 74 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.560 online community I was keeping my head down around when 75 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.399 all these movie websites pop up in the early odds. 76 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.160 It seemed pretty cool that movie fanatics suddenly had a 77 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.279 forum to be as weird about film as they liked. 78 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.279 But that devolved pretty quickly like every corner of the Internet. 79 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.399 And I don't mean in snarky, derisive bullshit either. I mean, 80 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.480 in this case, the very odd phenomenon of anti gatekeeping. 81 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.319 It used to be there was always a group of 82 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.560 superfan assholes deflecting any new interest into their secret handshake 83 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:27.040 tree house. That was annoying. Way more annoying to me 84 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.839 are these anti gatekeepers announcing months in advance that you 85 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.920 definitely have to see this movie that they're talking about 86 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.639 because it is the best horror film ever made. But 87 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.360 you'll have to take my word for it because I 88 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.879 saw it at the Spooky Showcase in Sheboygan. And the 89 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.240 film doesn't get a wide release for another nine months, 90 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.360 and then it'll only be in New York and Helsinki. 91 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.279 I know I touched on this when we talked about 92 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.199 Robert Eggers, but I'd rather have every twist in a 93 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.920 movie spoiled for me than have someone over hype it. 94 00:05:55.399 --> 00:06:00.120 Superlatives should be stricken from every keyboard critics vocabulary. That's 95 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.399 why I've been a fan of the Weekly Planet podcast 96 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.160 for more than a decade. Those Australians were way ahead 97 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.759 of everyone when they developed their movie rating system. Everything 98 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.720 reviewed is either the best movie ever or the worst 99 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.120 movie ever, which is pretty clever and pretty goddamn true. 100 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.600 Is there no middle ground anymore? Does everything have to 101 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.439 be a religious experience or a total piece of shit? 102 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.920 Absolutism working great in every aspect of American society these days, 103 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.319 Which leads us to Companion. Well, wait, before that, I know, 104 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.680 I promise I'll get to the film proper. And this 105 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.959 does tie in because Companion is about a sentient android, 106 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:41.319 and it automatically conjures up the android film, Ridley Scott's 107 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:45.160 nineteen eighty two neo noir masterpiece Blade Runner. Fuck it, 108 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.519 I'm gonna digress even further. Art is subjective, But if 109 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.120 you think Blade Runner twenty forty nine is the superior 110 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.399 of those two films, I'd like to invite you to 111 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:58.480 have sex with yourself anyway. Blade Runner is filled, overstuffed 112 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.120 really with not only beautiful imagery and interesting characters, but 113 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.360 interesting concepts. And I always came away with a deep 114 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.519 sense of melancholy from that film. It is, after all, 115 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.160 about mortality in facing it, that's what the replicants are doing. 116 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.519 They've returned to Earth to extend their criminally short life span. 117 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.720 So when Roy Mattie laments that every moment of his 118 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.160 life is lost like tears in the rain, we can 119 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.360 all relate to that and quoted and mythologize it. But 120 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.160 for me, the tragedy of Blade Runner takes place two 121 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.199 or three reels before that. As heartbreaking as it is 122 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.600 to face his own obsolescence, at least Roy Manny knew 123 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.560 what he was, and the memories he's lamenting losing are 124 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.639 his own. Not so for Rachel. She is not only 125 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.519 unaware that she's artificial, but none of her memories are hers. 126 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.120 How would you react to that? Not only is your 127 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.199 life alive, but your every memory of it was too. 128 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:53.560 Rachel chooses to start a new life of her own. 129 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.360 I no doubt would have walked into the ocean hoping 130 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.759 it would short circuit me. Companion gives us a third 131 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.480 and way more realistic possibility. 132 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.319 There from two moments in my life when I was happiest. 133 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.839 The first was the day I met Josh. I'm Josh, 134 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:19.079 i'm Arius, and the second the day I killed him. 135 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:23.399 Just relax, remember to smile and act happy. 136 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:25.319 Did they know? 137 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:32.919 Iris? 138 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:33.360 Wake up? 139 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:36.639 What are you doing? 140 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:38.120 Shut her down already? 141 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:44.720 What is she talking about, Joshua, Josha, this was not 142 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:45.799 part of the plant. 143 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:48.440 I didn't mean to. 144 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:51.919 Did you jail break your sex book? 145 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:02.919 Wow? Josh the days of you controlling me? Borrow first? 146 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:07.679 Are you breaking up with me? 147 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:15.200 It's not you, it's me. Yeah. 148 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:17.360 She's tied up inside, so she's not going anywhere. 149 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:19.679 M hmm. 150 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.399 Eliris is spitting on a value. 151 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.799 Thatcher plays Iris. She and her boyfriend Josh, played by 152 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.759 the Boys and the Lower Deck star Jack Quaid. Did 153 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.360 you know he was Dennis Quaid's son, Yeah, look at him. 154 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.679 Josh and Iris are spending the weekend at an incredibly 155 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.279 secluded and incredibly lavish house in the wilds of I 156 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.240 don't know, but it's heavily forested. Boy Sophie Thatcher cannot 157 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.840 get out of the woods. There there with two other couples, 158 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:53.240 Kat and Serge is the shady Russian millionaire that owns 159 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:57.720 said secluded house, and Patrick and the Eli Eli played 160 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:00.200 by What we do in the Shadows stand Out and 161 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.120 a human I find just as inspiring as Juliet Lewis 162 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.320 Harvey Gillen. When he was twelve, he collected cans for 163 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.559 months to pay for improv classes for himself. Conviction is 164 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.279 a theme on tonight's episode Thatcher's iris is unlike any 165 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.960 character I've seen her play, impervious to the barbed insults 166 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.879 of Josh's friends while remaining curious and innocent. There's really 167 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:25.600 no other word for it. That's even after she fends 168 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.879 off the unwonted advances of Sergey with an obscene amount 169 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.679 of bloodshed. Now here's where this review gets tricky. I 170 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.279 went in blind, so I want the same for you. 171 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.440 I'll do my best because the movie has multiple twists, 172 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.120 and for the most part, they are unexpected and a 173 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.159 lot of fun. There are recent sci fi comparisons to 174 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.720 be made, Megan being the obvious one, an unhinged robot 175 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.559 surrogate for a best friend. Far less successful than that 176 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.039 was Don't Worry Darling. That was the virtual reality clap trap, 177 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.399 where all men wanted to do was enslave women into 178 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.759 thinking their housewife so that they can go to work. Okay. 179 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.440 In the last episode, I talked about director Lee one 180 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:05.559 El's film Invisible Man, gaining an immense amount of push 181 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.519 toward relevancy thanks to its cresting the wave of the 182 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.279 Me Too movement. And I still think that's true. But 183 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.720 as I stated, that movie didn't need the haft of 184 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.000 any swirling zeitgeist. You wouldn't have believed the technology in 185 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.360 the nineteen seventies. But that story could have been folded 186 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.759 just as easily then or the nineteen eighties, et cetera. 187 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:25.519 Not so with the whole spate of movies that have 188 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.879 come out in the past few years, i e. After 189 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.799 that wave has broken and withdrawn way the fuck back out. 190 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.759 Now we're at low tide, and films that had no 191 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.440 chance of getting made because they're terrible have a new relevancy. 192 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:44.279 Like Perfection, which amusingly enough stars Megan's Alison Williams, another 193 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.000 actor out there slugging it out in the horror movie Trenches. 194 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:51.159 The Perfection is so achingly constructed to be meaningful with 195 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.799 a capital A twenty four, but appropriately was released by 196 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.519 Miramax promising Young Woman is a defanged remake of Miss 197 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.240 forty five. Film was unafraid to be as rage filmed 198 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:06.399 as the subject matter required. I'm not necessarily lumping Companion 199 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.799 in with those although there is some clumsy, fucking stumbling 200 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.080 subtextence text near the finale of this film that all 201 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.759 but screams head meet nail. But unlike those films, this 202 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.360 one isn't fucking ponderous or means spirited, because if you're 203 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.720 gonna go dark, go all the fucking way. I'm not 204 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.000 the biggest fan of the Substance, but I admire every 205 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:28.840 impulse it had and acts upon. Like Invisible Man or 206 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.960 The Substance or The Fly, this movie could have easily 207 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.679 existed in any previous decade, because while it is about 208 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.600 the power dynamics in a relationship for good or ill, 209 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.840 and not just between Iris and Josh, the film is 210 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.759 still wrestling with notions of identity and sentience and moreover love. 211 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.399 The film begins tellingly with Iris and Josh meeting in 212 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.600 a romantic scenario that can't possibly be real, and it wasn't, 213 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.679 but it is to Iris. What follows before the batshit 214 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.200 craziness begins, Finds Hurt, genuinely trying to understand how others 215 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.440 conceive of and feel love. It might just be a 216 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.080 subroutine running in or programming, but it proves to be 217 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.000 as seemingly powerful in the digital world as it does 218 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.919 in the real one. It's not all great these science 219 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.759 is a bit wonky. Here a society where there are 220 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.840 robot companions unaware their robot companions when they'd have to 221 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:24.559 live in a world where such an item is advertised 222 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.799 and potentially commonplace, is a bit silly. But for every 223 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.720 one of those there's an equally ingenious use of technology. 224 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.360 I mentioned at the top how absolute everything has to 225 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.399 be these days. Well, this movie it's fine. I mean, 226 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.559 it's good. You know. Is it the best sci fi 227 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:44.000 horror thing I've seen recently? No, but neither was it 228 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:49.679 Follows or Nosferatu or Barbarian. Wait you love Barbarian? Well, 229 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.480 I thought it was pretty good. Was it the most 230 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.679 horrifying thing ever? No, that movie had huge problems. I 231 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.879 wouldn't think someone would come along so quickly on its 232 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:01.759 heels and deliver a superior version. And yet that's exactly 233 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.039 what the film Ripley has chosen. This week hit at 234 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:13.000 hp J film, Thank you hp There'll be no great 235 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.399 moments in presidential speeches this week. I was thinking a 236 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.279 lot about Barbarian when I was watching Rip's pick. But 237 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.159 I was really thinking a lot about torture porn. Barbarian 238 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.559 never fell into that category. It is its own level 239 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:27.600 of weird. But in the wake of Saw, we had 240 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.320 a veritable glut of filmmakers devising more and more intricate 241 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.200 and horrible ways to separate flesh from bone, most times 242 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.440 at the character's own hands, while we, as the audience, 243 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:42.399 were all made Alexander Delares like clockwork orange and forced 244 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:45.960 to stare helplessly. I was never a fan of the genre. 245 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.799 It felt like all the caterwauling by parents and religious 246 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.000 groups during the nineteen eighties preaching that slasher films were 247 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:57.559 desensitizing the generation to violence was manifested in torture porn, unlikable, 248 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:03.120 uninteresting characters being dispatched in truly ingenious and truly horrifying methods. 249 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:06.759 If those films are your thing, bully hell I worked 250 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:08.799 as an actor at the Escape Room for a piece, 251 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.399 but they ultimately felt like a victory for those finger 252 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:15.679 wagging scolds. This film has all the trappings of any 253 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.559 of those films lead characters trapped in a puzzle and 254 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:22.519 forced to confront uncomfortable situations, only they managed to do 255 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.519 it here without the torture or the porn. This is 256 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.399 from last year. It's heretic. 257 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:30.759 Hi, good afternoon, ma'am. 258 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:34.440 Are you interested in learning about our savior Jesus Price? 259 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:38.679 Hi afternoon? 260 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:40.519 Are you your name of Sister Barnes? 261 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:40.639 And? 262 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:49.200 Oh my gosh, are you interested in learning more about 263 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:50.240 the Church of Jesus Christ? 264 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:50.960 Come on it. 265 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.240 We can't come inside and lets another woman is present. 266 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.200 My wife is home. Does that come crazy? 267 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:55.879 You like pie? 268 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.320 Yeah? 269 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.759 I could tell that you are a very spiritually curious person. 270 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.080 I think it is good to be religious, to find 271 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:10.039 your faith in a doctrine you actually believe. Here is done. 272 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.919 I will go and check on the path self. 273 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.000 Estee sile. 274 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:48.039 Mh you can do this. You're crazy. We just need 275 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:50.720 to go home. I won't keep you if you wish 276 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:53.519 to leave, but I want you to choose which daughter 277 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.879 go through based on your faith. What does this have 278 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:10.039 to do with us leaving everything were being studied. It 279 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:14.039 will make your puss will be faster, It may even 280 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:15.240 make you want to die. 281 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.039 Do not be afraid. 282 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.880 You will witness a miracle. 283 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:50.319 I don't know about you, but when Hugh Grant hit 284 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.480 the scene, I thought it was hilarious that he was 285 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.640 being taken as a romantic lead. This was the guy 286 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.599 from Layer of the White Worms. How can anyone look 287 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.720 at him and think anything other than cantankerous old prick 288 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.599 is beyond me? Even at college age, Hugh Grant fairly 289 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.839 screamed cantankerous old prick. I didn't have anything against his 290 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.640 tenure in the land of romantic comedies, nor did I 291 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.839 give a shit when he was arrested and forced to 292 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.519 walk like Circe Lanister through the airwaves while Jay Leno 293 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.119 chanted shame at him. I was just waiting for him 294 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.359 to come into his own and boy, howdy, he sure has. 295 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:23.960 Lately. 296 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.319 There have been nothing but horror stories from everyone he's 297 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.240 worked with, and he's now finally leaned into the roles 298 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:34.319 he was born to play, embracing his cantankerous pricketude. It's 299 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.359 certainly on display here. But there is another facet of 300 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.119 Hugh Grant, and this is why he was so desirable 301 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:44.640 in those romantic leading roles. He seems whip smart. The 302 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.759 smugness isn't there by accident. He seems a muscular performer who, 303 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:53.200 given the right role, will absolutely embody it. His character 304 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:55.480 here is as solid as any of the thriller villains 305 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.160 we've come to love over the years, his closest parallel 306 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:04.079 being less Jigsaw and more lecter, making this a thriller. Listen, 307 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.240 I am not the biggest thriller fan. My idea of 308 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:10.519 entertainment on the whole does not involve watching characters. I 309 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:15.200 genuinely like being forced into smaller and smaller boxes with 310 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.960 greater and more disturbing consequences. It's not a great feeling. 311 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.400 They make me understand those who ask how I can 312 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.880 watch gory films with such glee. It makes me understand 313 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:27.200 their confusion about it anyway. But I do admire a 314 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:29.720 well made thriller, even if it's putting me through the 315 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.440 paces and in some scenes genuinely making my heart beat faster. 316 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.400 This film did it a few times. Even Ripley noticed, 317 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:39.880 Yes you did. It was the only time you jumped 318 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:44.839 during this movie. That and during the Blueberry Pie. So 319 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:49.440 here's the setup. Two Mormon missionaries try to proselytize to 320 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:53.920 the wrong house that secluded one sent far back from 321 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.240 the street. The house owner is grant. Those missionaries are 322 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:00.880 Sophie Thatcher, fucking solid as always, with a character as 323 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.319 different from Iris as Iris was from Natalie on Yellowjackets. 324 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:07.359 But the real standout here, which is no small feed 325 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.559 given this film as a three hander, with two of 326 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.559 those hands belonging to Grant and thatcher. Fuck that sounds 327 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:16.519 incredibly British, is an actress named Chloe East. She was 328 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:19.000 last seen in The Fableman's Not that any of you 329 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.839 saw that film, and a film that I personally think 330 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:24.240 the final scene should have been the first. Anyway. She 331 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.440 played the young Sammy Fableman's goy love interest Monica. In 332 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:30.559 that she was good there, She's fucking a riotous here, 333 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.000 playing the genuinely pious of the two missionaries who must 334 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.920 find strengths of reserve and faith she was unaware she had, 335 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.519 and faith is important in this film because the homeowner, 336 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.599 mister Reid, isn't your typical psychopath. Oh sure, he's interested 337 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.400 in teaching some lessons, but not necessarily the ones that 338 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.319 involve your skin being flayed off by a repurposed washing 339 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.079 machine or whatever. The fuck. Oh no, because while he's 340 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:57.200 lured these young women to his house with a request 341 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.359 for education on the Church of Latter day Saints, the 342 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.039 fact is mister Reid knows far more about the book 343 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.240 of Mormon and its history than either missionary are in 344 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:10.119 any way prepared for a theological cat and mouse flick. 345 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.799 And it works. You're fucking right, it does. What's more, 346 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:16.759 the film, in addition to providing the usual ratcheting of 347 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.680 tension you'd expect from any thriller, manages another nifty trick 348 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.680 by constantly making you side with Hugh Grant. The fact 349 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:27.920 is you never know his intention, and it plays with that, 350 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:31.279 forcing you again and again back between the character's points 351 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:33.920 of view, all the while delivering a treatise on not 352 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.559 just Mormonism, but all religions and how they interconnect and 353 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.480 how they fundamentally share certain undeniable traits, while forcing our 354 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:44.359 leads to make choices based on their continued fealty to 355 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.279 their faith or their new points of view. Thanks to 356 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:51.480 Reed's diatribes, this is the role for Hugh Grant, as 357 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:54.680 far as I'm concerned, I've honestly never seen him better. 358 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.960 He just disappears into this guy and in a way 359 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.359 reinforces everything the movie is trying to say about perception 360 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:05.240 and reality. Oh, speaking of disappearing to for Grace is 361 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:09.000 in this too. The only non problematic that seventies show 362 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:13.119 actor and editing Jedi Toafer Grace plays the only other 363 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.559 major role, and he's in it a lot, and I 364 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.079 had no fucking idea who he was until the end credits. 365 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:19.079 Bravo. 366 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:22.880 I loved this movie. I don't know what else to say. 367 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.920 I mean, I do, but spoilers being spoilers, don't want 368 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.200 to spoil anything because I've probably already said too much, 369 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:34.119 except I will say this. I mentioned hope at the 370 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.240 beginning of this show, and it's necessity and maybe even 371 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.480 the fucking point of life. I am a half century 372 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:45.480 old at this point, and I feel it man physically, emotionally, culturally, 373 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.160 and it's easy in one's life at a certain point 374 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:50.559 to say that's it. I'm good. I've got all the 375 00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:52.960 music and literature and movies and all the things that 376 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.880 make life worth living. I've had my fill. I can't 377 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:58.599 really see anything new coming up as anything but a disappointment. 378 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.000 These are the people that somehow canonized Doc Brown and 379 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:05.279 Marty McFly, and they won't accept a Ghostbuster with a vagina. 380 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.160 It's so fucking lazy and self centered to think that 381 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.599 the pinnacle of culture happened around your adolescence, and it's 382 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:13.920 goddamn boring to think that there isn't going to be 383 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.119 anything after you of quality. So when I see young 384 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:20.960 performers like Sophie Thatcher or Chloe East or Harvey Gillen 385 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:24.640 or Anya Taylor Joy or Jack Quaid or even fucking Shallome, 386 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.359 they give me hope. There's always going to be interesting people, 387 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:31.559 and on occasion they might have something interesting to say, 388 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:34.720 or at least know a new way to ask an 389 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.720 old question. I don't know a new way to ask. 390 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:40.000 If I did, I wouldn't be this fucking old. You 391 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:44.720 ask a question in a new way that's not new, 392 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.759 and it's perverted, and I've been asked that before. Thank 393 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:50.720 you one and all for lending us your ears well 394 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.519 once again here at Midnight Viewing's Father Malone's weekly roundup. 395 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:57.240 Be sure to tune in this coming Friday, we're continuing 396 00:23:57.279 --> 00:23:59.640 to wade through Tales from the Dark Side season three 397 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:03.400 with two new episodes, The Bitterest Pill and Florence Bravo. 398 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:05.279 I already called you all the actions, so I guess 399 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:06.839 we're just going to sign off and enjoy the rest 400 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:10.079 of our Sunday. We record on Sundays, and given that 401 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:11.880