Too Scary; Didn't Watch - INFINITY POOL

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Mia Goth and Alexander Skarsgård give us incredible chemistry in Brandon Cronenberg's latest unhinged masterpiece, INFINITY POOL. Join us as we try to decide whether we can ever go on vacation ever again!!  TRAILER Recap begins @ 27:27 Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy and I like watching scary movies and so I watch them. Excuse me. Hold on.

I like it so much that you could almost call it love. In fact, you could. Oh my god. Just threw me for a fucking loop. Maybe I'm feeling less enthused today. No, I'm not. I'm feeling more enthused than ever. Because we are recording this in the morning, which in my mind. A Monday morning, excuse me.

A Monday morning recording. And I have some pep in my step. I don't know what it is. Yeah, we got that start of the week energy yeah you know how mondays are the best days morning zest you know what i think of i keep thinking of morning poog morning i think of morning poog morning poog morning tscw that's what's happening um we've got a bit of haunted housekeeping, which is that we have a live show coming up, virtual live show, recapping Knock at the Cabin. Ever heard of it?

M. Night Shyamalan, ever heard of him? Never heard of him, but you have. If you haven't, look him up. Also known as Night. It will be on February 11th at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. will be on February 11th at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. And you can get tickets at moment.co.tsdw. What else do I need to say about it?

Is that everything? That's everything. Patrons get 20% off. So if you are a patron of the podcast or would like to become one, go to patreon.com.tswpodcast to join. And then the information for getting tickets at that discounted rate will be found through your patreon also the show is happening live you can watch it live you can watch us recapping in real time 5 p.m 5 p.m pacific 8 p.m eastern february 11th or if you're not available then you can get a ticket still and the video of that recording Will be available for one whole week

So if you can't Get free on a Saturday night Because you are too hot and cool Out on the town That is just fine You can watch it on a Monday morning if you want Great time to take in horror movie content You know

So just go ahead and grab those little tiggies We're very very excited about it it's gonna be great it's gonna be a blast i can't wait personally personally i can't wait that was almost a poem it's gonna be great it's gonna be a blast i can't wait almost almost a poem almost a poem it really has a nice ring to it um so did anything scary happen to us this week On this fine Monday morning On this fine start of the week The very first hours of our experience

Did anything happen Scary happen to us in the past Nine and a half hours Ten hours So I've been wanting to tell you guys All about this This is huge for me I went to Costa Rica

Sorry Henley's back look we've already talked to her so we forgot to make a whole to do but for you listeners you're like oh my god it's henley and we get it we feel the same freaking way she's back she's back i'm back i'm back i'm better than ever i'm so refreshed um uh vacation is wild i can't believe I just went on one. I can't believe it's over. Um, but I really needed to tell you guys that a tragedy, a full tragedy befell me while I was in Costa Rica. Oh no. A classic saving a full tragedy for the podcast and not telling your friends. and not telling your friends in real time. I'm familiar.

It's a very serious thing. Okay, so one night I ate a passion fruit. I think it was a passion fruit. I don't actually know. It was some kind of fruit that you open up. It's in Costa Rica. There's seeds on the inside. It's extremely tart.

It's very, very tart. And then that night I went to bed and I was like, I have the worst toothache I've ever had in my life. Like I have a terrible toothache. I was popping Advil. I was spiraling in my head. Like I'm going to have to find a dentist and I'm in a really remote area. Like I'm gonna have to go to the dentist, like in the middle of the night. Like, I don't even know how to do that. Yeah freaking out somehow went to bed emergency dentist i've never thought about that there must be because you get there must be because you people get severe pain from toothaches like i was researching it do that i would be the

same way of like what am i supposed to do i wouldn't yeah i wouldn't know to do like here in the city that i live yeah exactly i think in la and new york you're fine but if you're in a remote jungle in costa rica like i don't know how quick it is to find an emergency dentist so i was really spiraling researching tons about um uh toothaches i have dentists i have i have like a spot in one of my teeth where i have had issues before and i was like this is it like it's finally like reached the nerve and it's so bad so i wake up in the morning and i'm like you know i'm just gonna because it feels weird i'm just gonna like look around in my mouth so i shine a flashlight in my mouth sorry oh my god oh my god where is this going um i have and had the biggest canker sore

i've ever seen on my soft palate like in the back part of your throat like the part you see when you open up your mouth it was like the size of a quarter it was huge it was near your molar like you don't need to open your mouth where your larynx is like that part. It's like right above it, right above it at the top. But it was just so big and painful. You thought it was your tooth. Yeah. It was like rating down my entire jaw and I couldn't like eat anything. And the sour of the passion fruit really fucked it up. It was the passion fruit that fucked me up. Okay. But it seems like it was a problem before that because that's it didn't spontaneously become a quarter no no no i think the passion fruit

really inflamed it like very severely and i know that i can't eat pineapple because i know that it gives me canker sores but i wasn't really thinking about it and i must have already had one a little on growing or something but the passion fruit you guys it's the biggest canker sore I've ever seen I almost wanted to take a picture and show it to you guys but I didn't I didn't it it defied logic I feel like after we hear about

this week's movie you're gonna be you're gonna wish you had and so you could show it to see me yeah I'd take a look I'd take a peek I remember when I showed you guys my peeling feet. Sometimes you just have to show somebody else what's happening on your body. Yeah, it was severe. It was so bad. And Tim was shocked as well. Of course I showed Tim. He was the first person I showed.

Because he was the one that had to deal with the brunt of my anxiety being like, how are we going to find a dentist? I was so relieved though. Cause I was like, Oh like oh yeah that is it's not a toothache a better that is a scenario than an exposed nerve yeah well you're just saying that just give me the chills i know i know i know i'm sorry i'm sorry it's just like we have so many parts of our bodies that are so weird and you can't see them really and you don't know what to do about them. Like the fact that you're constantly putting things in your mouth, but if something happens to your tooth, it like totally fucks you up. It's just like an absolute design flaw. Like what is that? It's a design flaw. It's a design flaw. I love the idea of anyone like opening up this podcast who's never

listened before and just being like i guess these girls just talk about their bodies body parts we do talk about our bodies a lot look look we're at the age where things are just getting harder it's crazy that we have bodies i'm sorry if you don't think it's crazy blessings to you because we got some body horror coming up so stay tuned oh god that's true it is appropriate timing but i just like it's just real it's just like what is this thing that we just have i know we're so fragile and it like is supposed to do certain things and not supposed to do other things sorry now i'm spiraling because like i'm literally looking at my hands and being like and there's nails at the end of my fingers

oh no like it's so weird it's pretty weird morning morning podcast it's pretty morning tstw wowie what happens well i'm i'm glad you were okay and I'm sorry you held that stress in and kept it from your friends. Is it healed? It's not completely healed but it's a lot better than it was. Yeah. It's going to be a two weeker I think.

Those are tough. I get them a lot so I've never had one in this location before. You know what i actually maybe in sympathy solidarity i bit myself while i was sleeping oh you did you did do that to the point that i woke up with blood on my face and on my pillow which is how you you told us that before you said you bit yourself you said i woke up to blood on my face and on my pillow.

Well, because that's how I experienced it. I wanted you to experience what I experienced, which is the first thought of, did I do vampire stuff in the night? Did I do vampire stuff? My first thought was a cat bled onto you, which is my first fear if I were to wake up in that. Not a cat bit you? No, just like nasty and came over to me and bled on me. Oh, God. No, that didn't cross my mind.

Okay, well. But another nighttime scare that did actually happen to me last night. So was this week. Great. Probably. Which is that I had a dream that I was on the Titanic. Oh my God, Sammy. She's talking about Titanic again.

And I'm honestly surprised that it's taken this long for me to have this dream of just like firsthand experience of what it feels like to be on the Titanic as it's sinking. Oh God. Oh my God. Oh my God. It was so scary, you guys. It was so scary you guys it was so scary okay were you in the like lower levels with water rising or were you kind of like clinging were you clinging onto the side not to brag but i think i was kind of higher up but i did look at

the little little port window porthole and see that it was completely submerged when it was supposed to be and so I like panicked and started running up as the halls were like filling with water but there was some difference like it wasn't exactly the titanic because I remember thinking at least the water is not freezing cold so if I can like get out to the water I can maybe survive and I did get out to the water but then I had the thought as the boat was like sinking next to me that it's going to create such an extreme pull oh yeah as it sinks like the current that I'm going to get like whirlpooled into it so I like started panicking like I need to swim as far away from it as possible.

So I don't get sucked under with it. It was really scary. That is so scary. Oh my God. What a terrifying dream. Was it a relief to wake up? It was a relief to wake up and you won't believe it, but I was wearing my Titanic shirt.

I just don't know if this is gonna make me rethink anything or if I'm still gonna spend a lot of my time thinking and talking and watching Titanic uh the 25th anniversary is coming up we just got tickets to see it in theaters. Just got tickets. In 3D. No. I don't want to do that. Wait, and that'll be your first time, Emily. It'll be my first time. You're going to see it on the big screen. I'm going to see it on the big screen.

That's how it was meant to be seen. Yeah, it's how Cameron intended. And I love to do things the way James Cameron intended. You get to see the Kate Winslet sweaty hand. Oh, that part I've seen come on now oh okay yeah I've seen that part I've seen that part pretty excited about it though it'll be great um I now also when I think about the Titanic I've linked it to King Princess in my head. Yeah. Oh, right. Because

of her ancestry. There's a musician I like, yeah, whose great-grandfather died on the Titanic. And I don't know, it was in that Variety Nepo Baby article. So funny. And it just made me laugh that that cat, they categorized her as a Nepo Baby because her great-grandfather died on the Titanic. Her as a nepo baby because her Great grandfather died on the Titanic Oh my god He does own Macy's he's a rich man That's why They're not just talking about anybody who died on the Titanic

But they just threw that fact in there as if it was relevant And I'm glad they did because I'm glad to know it Yeah More Titanic facts for that For your Titanic head For your little brain yeah For the best one What about you Emily

I mean nothing huge in the last Nine hours I did have a very hard time falling asleep And it was one of those nights where it's like I did everything right And that's when I really get mad When I can't fall asleep because it's like Well then what the fuck else am I supposed to do Yeah

But you know that That was just having a body baby but Um I was gonna say You guys know this we finally Finally Fucking watched Severance Basically in like one week We watched all of it because it's

So good I mean Duh We couldn't get Apple TV on our Main TV because it's a fucking Like Android TV And they didn't want us to have Apple TV But a friend of ours told us We could try to get it on our Playstation

And that worked Don't tell Apple Don't tell Android Google, Bill Gates I don't know, don't tell them Bill Gates Don't tell android android google bill gates i don't know don't tell him but so we finally were able to watch it and it's so fucking good and i can't stop thinking about i can't something about i play the final shot in my head over and over and over and over again it's so good um but it made Me realize Joel and I were both

Like man we really need to like when there's a show That everybody's fucking talking about And is obsessed with we gotta watch It we need to do better. It's true because I've basically like Forgotten all of Severance now so I can't Yeah well and it's also just like You know. We can't chat as much about it as You know there's a reason. Passionately

If I was watching it you gotta watch it so The thing that's happening now that we realize That that's the case for is The Last of Us. We started watching The Last of Us. Guys, it's so scary. I know. I'm only seeing the first half. It's really scary. Me too.

And it's really upsetting. And it's like going to get worse. And so that's on the one hand. I'm like, well, fuck. Fuck. I have to do this now and then also it's episode three came out last night we've only watched episode one it's already happening again i'm behind people are talking about it i'm seeing pictures from episode three and i'm like well i

don't need well now i know and it's like man it's just too hard to keep up it's too hard to keep up i've i put hbo as number one i'd feel like i would have yeah i i'm i'm on that day of you watch that shit you watch that shit live well i even like last night i was guys can you believe i was doing homework until 11 o'clock and so i thought my i had the thought that we were we would maybe watch both we would watch two and then we watched the movie caught up i didn't even we still haven't watched two and it's like well i've already seen a bunch of pictures from episode three so i know like some people who are in it i know some some key words about it and it's just you just simply it's what a task to keep up with television and the internet it's overwhelming well i start i stopped doing my top 10 tv list because i was simply, I find TV really hard to keep up with.

But that said, there's a handful of shows that are out and like coming out. It's like succession, yellow jackets. Yeah. I mean, succession, I'll watch moment of,

I'm not crazy, but that's pretty much the only one that I can like, that I like am good about keeping up with as it actually comes out. Yeah. Oh boy. Oh boy. And I, yeah, I want to try to watch season one of yellow jackets before season two comes out like good fucking luck you haven't

seen season one yet oh no there's too many it's too many shows i haven't seen it yeah tim has a thing where he likes to like like bank shows so we can you know binge them more and he's he's been saying that for the last of us he keeps being like well don't we want to like wait for more to come out so we can like watch a couple in a row and i think that he's using this as an excuse i really don't like not have to watch it yeah 100 and tim if you're listening to you i am fucking on to you we're on to you know what's happening because i want to watch it and i keep bringing it up every night I'm like can we watch the last one he's like oh it's like we should wait until you know another one 90 minutes so and watching a few in a row is also like really a lot to sit through do you know what I mean like it's not like a fun two hours I know I know last night was 90 minutes I thought you

told me the rest of them were gonna be short short. I thought they were. I thought you told me. I thought they were. I really thought they were. Episode 2 was shorter, but yeah, episode 3 was another movie length one. What are they doing to us? It's too much content. It's too much. Oh my god.

Speaking of content, we've got more. We've got more. And we're eating it up. I'm freaking loving it. I'm gobbling it down. Gobble, gobble. This week's movie is Infinity Pool. In theaters now. The new film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg.

Starring Mia Goth, Alexander Skarsgård, and Cleopatra Coleman. And, ooh, baby, we've been excited for this one. I'm so excited. I told you guys this already, but I watched the trailer for this and was so deeply disturbed that I had to watch Lizzo Day Drinking with Seth Meyers afterwards, which was one of my favorite videos of the year. And so I have to thank the Infinity pool trailer for leading me to it. I want to throw in also, I recently, I think I sent you guys a video of Tom Holland on

lip sync battle and just want to toss that into the pool of things to make you feel a little better if you're feeling bad. It's really good good a good little palate cleanser to add to the playlist it's very funny to be like this video that happened five years ago of a thing that i bet everybody knows about by now i've never seen it or heard of it i know and like i've never i'm not a big holland head and i never really have understood it and as as you said, when you sent us the video, you were like, oh, I get it now. It makes sense. Yeah. It all makes sense. And you were right. It clicked. I didn't realize he could dance. He can like really dance. He's a great dancer. He's a really good dancer. Really, really good. I think he wasn't, wasn't he a dancer? Actually, I think he was like a ballerina.

I'm pretty sure. Wait, I think I knew that. That makes sense. Okay, I guess I love him. I'm a Holland head. You're a Holland head now. Okay, okay. Infinity pool, infinity pool.

We got to do it. We got to do it. We got to do it. It has a 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, 72% 72 on metacritic 6.9 on imdb nice fuck yeah for this movie it's perfect too um i couldn't find the budget but so far it's made 2.7 million um and like possessor his film, the theatrical cut had to cut things out to make it R and not NC-17. Oh, wow. Okay. You want to see the NC-17 cut, obviously. Of course I do. But luckily I was able to figure out, I think, most of what got cut out. So i'll call it out as we go through the recap i really wish that they

would play the nc-17 version like on more limited screens like you can play both why not both why not give us the option you clearly have it are you allowed to show nc-17 in theaters i mean maybe not maybe that's why i have no idea i just feel like i never see it i feel like people don't just because it's not lucrative you can't make money yeah but i think it kind of still would have been for this movie like the same people are gonna go what was david cronenberg's last movie that he put out is he still putting out movies or is it mostly he did crimes of the future last year oh okay okay okay that was him because i okay you said possessor i was like oh have we only done brandon cronenberg late okay no now

they're both doing it he's they're both doing it they're both freaking knocking it out of the park we love the cronenbergs brandon cronenberg uh favorite nepo baby yeah Yeah. No, I mean, Alexander Skarsgård's up there as well. Oh my God, yeah. Look, I love them all. Why choose? I really love them all. Don't make me choose. Don't make me choose. Okay, so are you ready to watch this trailer even though last time you needed a palate cleanser

and you're not going to get one this time? My palate cleanser is seeing your beautiful faces. Oh, that's true. You didn't have us last last time my palette cleanser is to hear the full recap i don't understand why we're doing this we barely know these people it's one day let's mix things up a bit you're just happy you found your fan club Let's mix things up a bit. You're just happy you found your fan club.

I've been reading six years for your second book. Is it coming out soon? I'm working on it. What do you do for money, then? You married rich. I actually came here looking for inspiration. Come on. Mr. James Foster, you'll have to come with us. Here, the punishment for any crime committed... is death.

What? What did you say? But for a significant sum, we'll build a double to stand in for your execution. Double? He looks just like me. Oh, my God. Maybe think of it as a gift. It's like a new skin working into place. It's for you to complete your transformation.

This is just a little game. But I can take some blood. Yeah! Nancy! Show me how strong you are. It's really disgusting. You could just sit there. And watch it happen.

Horrible. Horrible. Oh my god, I've never seen that full trailer. Holy shit. Horrible. What? Sammy. What? That was... Doesn't it just make you never want to go on vacation again?

No, it didn't do that for me. That's true. It's like an interesting timing for you. I know. It's just kind of roasting tourists. So we'll have to see how we feel at the end. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. my god also oh my

god mia goth like she's wonderful she's so good i could look at her all day i know she's absolutely unhinged i love it so much i feel like everybody came to this movie just like ready to they're like all right let's fucking do it let's go for it I'm so excited I love Skarsgård too And I just have to say that after this trailer played You know how you get little like suggested YouTube clips Anyway a bunch of mine were like Severance this scene

Look a clue Because I just fucking talked about it And I that's scary All of mine are like Bill Hader's funniest moments Bill Hader's top 100 funny moments like youtube just wants me to watch like super clips what do they call super cuts super cuts of bill hater there was a time when i didn't i didn't have the twitter app on my phone so i had to type in twitter to safari or whatever the browser and just the default thing was the twitter search page of bill hater that

was like my landing page so like every time i went to twitter i would just see whatever the latest on bill hater was the updates it's important to know yeah oh my god this movie what the fuck it got really hyped of like all of the like that is just fucking crazy and it is very crazy i think it could have been crazier but that's just a testament to how fucked my barometer is i think yeah how long is it i think it's long yeah i think it's almost two hours but it went by quick i mean it's not it's not boring yeah i believe that i believe it i believe it it's in a pretty beautiful location everyone is beautiful in it filmed in croatia it is beautiful okay is that why someone was throwing out croatia as an option for where we could go if we go on a trip was someone inspired a little bit too much by

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Let's do it, let's do it. Okay, so I'll start with the disclaimer that I saw this in theaters this weekend. So there might be some inaccuracies, but I'll do my best. We start out with our main character, James Alexander Skarsgård, and his wife, Em, who's played by Cleopatra Coleman. They're at a fancy-ass resort in the fictional country of Latoka, but it was filmed in Croatia, but it's kind of just a stand in for any place that rich people go to vacation and like the there's a line where he's well first there's like these big sweeping shots where the camera is rotating like uh like 180 degrees upside down that are just like these really cool shots of the resort that i kind of wish we got a little a little more

of that that visual language i liked it a lot, but they're sitting down to breakfast at the resort and, uh, James says, where are we? And M says, this was your idea. We find out he is an author and he's been struggling to write his next book and he's here for inspiration. She says there's, or no, we, we see that there's a festival happening at the place right now. There's some tradition because the rainy season is approaching. They do this festival where they wear these scary ass masks. The masks come in immediately. I was surprised.

Oh, yeah, me too. OK, I kind of like that. I thought that was a climactic point. Right. No, they're like part of this ceremony and something that they do something to call in the rainy season. And so they're doing this little performance, uh,

during breakfast with the guests of the resort watching. And after breakfast, M heads to into like this part of town. the resort is mostly fenced in like high, like impenetrable fences. But there's some place she can get to that James doesn't really want to go to. He's going to focus on, I don't know, writing, I guess. And so she goes by herself and leaves him there and as he's walking out to the beach there's a guy on an atv that comes and is like spinning doing wheelies basically and like spraying sand at all of the guests and it's causing this big ruckus and the people that work at the hotel are running out to get this guy out of here and mia goth walks up to to James as he's witnesses like watching this thinking what

the hell's going on and she says he's trying to make a statement he's making a statement which is so funny so this is I feel like the closest we've gotten to Mia Goth's real voice this is still not Mia Goth's real voice I was gonna ask that I was like what is her real voice because I was thinking that the entire trailer what does she actually sound like normally when she's talking day to day? She sounds like really British and like no like and like a little ghost. She's a little British ghost. She's a little British ghost. It's like so alarmingly cute. Weird. That's actually weird alarmingly cute. Weird. That's actually weird.

Unsettling almost. Yeah. Good to know. Yeah, she has a bit of a baby voice. And so she's taking it like octave, octave, Octavia Spencer. Is she in this too? I got Ma on the mind. She's like taking taking an octave down. So it's, it's close to her real voice, but not quite. And she tells James that the, this guy is trying to make a statement,

um, doesn't like the tourists. And if he had his way, he would stab a knife through your throat and hang you in the in front of the public square or something like that and James obviously sees that Gabby is stunning and gorgeous and it's like oh my god who is this woman talking to me and immediately starts kind of flirting back with her they have instant chemistry andby reveals, I loved your book. And he looks very surprised by this. And she says, I'm so sorry. Like, is this so gauche? I'm embarrassed.

But like, I just have to say, like, I'm a huge fan of your book. I was so surprised to see you here. And he says, you know, nobody's read my book. That's so crazy. And he says, you know, nobody's read my book. That's so crazy. And he's immediately like so flattered and even more smitten. Easy target. Yeah. And so her husband walks up, her husband's name is Albin. And he, she says, this is the author I like. Remember that book I read and I loved so much. And he's like, oh yeah, yeah. She's talked about that book for a long time. She's a big fan. She says, this is the author I like. Remember that book I read and I loved so much. And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah.

She's talked about that book for a long time. She's a big fan. She says, please come and have dinner with us. You and your wife come have dinner with us tonight. So we see the four of them having dinner. And again, Gabby is just being so effusive about this book. Like, I've been waiting six years for your next one. Are you close?

so effusive about this book like i've been waiting six years for your next one are you close and he's he says yeah i mean it may be close and his wife kind of scoffs and and she says no he hasn't really started it yet albin asks how do you make money like in the past six years? And M says he married rich and laughs again. And so there's this little kind of digs happening, but it's, it's subtle. I mean, I don't know, whatever.

So, but Gabby is like staring at James. Like she just wants to fuck him right there on the table. Oh my God. Oh my God. at James like she just wants to fuck him right there on the table oh my god the looks she is giving him and he is liking it he is taking these looks in and the next day we see that they are going outside of the compound with Gabby and Albin and M says why are we doing this like we don't really know these people we just met them and he says this like we're on vacation that's like what you do you like meet people and go and explore and do new things and

and uh M says I don't know if we should do this I I know it's not their fault, but this is a poor country and it's dangerous and they target tourists. And James says, Gabby and Albin come here every year. We have found out that they do this year after year. And so he's like, they wouldn't take us someplace that wasn't safe. Like they know what they're doing. So they decide to go. Someone at the resort lends them a car the four of them drive out to this beautiful beach and as they pull up to park we see two other cars parked there abandoned and like burned the basically shells of cars a little unsettling but they don't even pay attention to that at all walk right by it go and set up their picnic.

Em is saying to James, you know, you're just happy you found your little fan club. Like she can very much see that Gabby is just fawning over James. And the four of them are talking. Albin asks Em what attracted her to James. And she says the fact that he's the opposite of my dad. And we find out her dad works at a publishing agency. And he told her never to marry a writer. Oh, like the literal opposite, job-wise. Yeah. And so she's like, I just did it to piss off my dad.

And Albin laughs and is like, be serious. And James is like, she serious. And, uh, James is like, she is being serious. Oh my God. That sucks. God. But they've been together 10 years and there,

there, there is like a, something nice between them as well. It's like not all horrible. Like there is some amount of sweetness, but also like some, I think resentment after the 10 years of them being together.

Like they kind of say things they shouldn't say to each other. And yeah. The actor who's Albin, that's Dexter's dad, right? That's the guy. He's also in Black Coat's Daughter as the dad. I can't. Oh, let me look. That's who I thought it was in the trailer.

Now I feel like I should look it up. I don't think that it is. Oh, is it not? Maybe. Quite a bit older than me i was gonna say it's like a big age difference movies but if that's true um oh my god i forgot alexander skarsgård's photo on imdb is him in a suit jacket with no pants on everybody go look that up it's so funny why is this his imdb picture it's not it's not ignore me on the red carpet pantsless it's not him when did he do that kind of a scary face i can't remember but i love him i love him for doing it but i love him albin is jaleel lespert who is it does not actually look like dexter's dad whatsoever he has a completely different lower half of his face. It was a trailer trick.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Ignore me. Okay. So then we see James goes to pee, like, in the bushes somewhere. And Gabby sneaks up behind him and wordlessly gives him a handjob. Oh, my God. Oh, oh my god and it's real quick he comes very fast we see the cum hitting the rocks below and this is where the nc-17 cut differs

and i'm very pissed off about it is you get a fucking full frontal ejaculation shot Oh my god Just let us see it Come on you guys I think the director's cut Will be released similar to Possessor Like on VOD So who's to say If it's Alexander Skarsgård's dick

I kind of wouldn't be surprised either way Because like I said I feel like everybody came Like prepared to fucking go Pl places they've never gone before damn yeah so they have that moment together everybody's getting pretty drunk and they spend the whole day at the beach and it's nighttime now and it's time to go back to the hotel Albin is now too drunk to drive and James is a little less drunk he says i'm good i'm good and so basically everybody falls asleep in the car except james who's driving and he's kind of drifting off and the headlights are like going on and off a bit

like the the bulb is dying and the lights come back on and a man is crossing the road in front of him and he hits one of the hits and kills a presumably a local man that lives in the area and everybody is obviously completely freaking out but gabby and albin immediately take charge and they're like you can't you cannot we cannot go to prison here the latokans the latokan police are animals like they will rape them and holy shit it's gonna be like horrible you guys will basically go missing no one is ever going to hear from you again we need to leave the body as you know james is like saying like oh like we need to call the police we need help like an ambulance and she's like nope we're leaving the fucking body get back in the car we're going back to

the compound right now you go to your rooms and you go to bed you don't tell anybody what just happened and just the authority with which with with which they are speaking convinces. I think it would right in a, in a moment of shock, you would just be wishing for somebody to tell you what the fuck to do. And so they do what she says. They go back to the resort and have to go back to the gate where they were let out and they almost don't let them back in they're clearly very upset that these tourists have gone outside of the facility and but they do let them back in i mean presumably the car is showing signs of having hit they ditched the car somewhere aha Aha. Okay. And they walk up on foot. The car is nearby. But yes, the car is

windshield smashed. And so yeah, they ditch it. And they go in and they go to bed and they're super freaked out. I don't think they sleep. We just see them like laying in bed looking completely terrified. And the next morning, there's a knock at the door and the police arrive and take in james and m i say you have to come with us as they get to the police station they separate them and so they're like calling out to like no no we stay together we stay together they're not listening they take james to one room m to another room cop Cop sits down with James and says that Gabby and Albin told him everything. Oh my God. Oh my God. And he says, I know that my uncle lent you guys the car, but would you please say that you stole it? Cause my uncle will get in trouble. And James looks so confused and doesn't know what to do. He has no

idea what's going on. He's so scared. And he's like, what does that change for me? If I say I stole it, he says, it doesn't change anything for you. All it does is protect my uncle. No, no. And he's like, okay, no, I'll do it. And he says, he says, your wife already confirmed that you and her stole this car. And just the two of you like drove out and killed this tourist. And he says the punishment for that crime is death. Oh, my God. he says the punishment for that crime is death oh my god and the way that you'll die is you're going to be killed by the firstborn son of the man that you killed or someone can be chosen by the family but luckily he does have sons he does have sons so there is a firstborn son to kill you

and i i should say that the tone of this is comedic, like at times. It's so ridiculous. And it's, yeah, there's, you're laughing a little bit at just how crazy this is. And he's acting like it's so normal. He's like, don't worry, he Latoka, we have a program where you have an option to buy a body double that can die in your place. But he says, but part of the condition of that is that the double has to have all of your memories so that it like it feels like they're actually dying for the crime you've committed. Oh, man. That's not going to end well.

And so he agrees to this. He makes him sign this page. He's like, it's this or you die. Like either you sign this to make this double or you're going to get executed right now. So he signs, goes into the ATM, gets a big stack of cash to pay them. And they strip him naked and put one of those things in his mouth. That's like a like a cheek spreader. Yeah. And it's I mean, those things are just so funny, isn't there? Like a whole board game where

you have to put one of those in your mouth and talk with it in they're just a very silly looking thing i do feel like that's something yeah yeah and so he just has these big wide eyes and his mouth is like completely open with this thing as they're leading him into this room where he's going to somehow get cloned doesn't know the process of how that what that entails and so he just goes and steps in this big vat of goo like reddish brown goo it's about like shin height and he's just looking around and they're panicking they just close him in that room by himself. We don't know what the fuck is going to happen. And then it goes into this almost hallucinatory sequence, which is very Brandon Cronenberg-y. It's like the similar to the scenes in Possessor

where you're changing bodies. It just is all these flashes of images like him at different times and really like bright neon colors it's all very abstract there was actually a epilepsy warning at the beginning of the film that i don't know that i've ever seen that before i feel like i've seen on tv shows and not movies for some reason yeah which feels like it'd be more likely to happen in a movie theater than on a on a tv screen i don't know i mean i guess i have no idea but but yeah so it's like a very trippy scene and we see afterwards that it has been successful he has this double him and m are reunited and they go and look at the double. They're like,

just, it's like crazy. He looks just like you. There's a little jump scare where the double kind of wakes up and gasps while he's right in his face, looking at him. And, uh,

they take the double and string him up. Basically in this execution room he's wearing a gown with an opening in his belly like a circular opening oh no no and he looks really scared and we're the audience of course being trying to figure out if they've gotten switched is this the right one because they look exactly the same and they both just look really scared and in shock. And so, and he does, he does call out. He's like, no, no, no, please, please. No, no, no. As we see a basically, I think like 12 year old boy come in with a knife, his first born son. And he comes in and he stabs him a whole bunch of times in the belly oh no so that the double dies and we pan to basically like bleachers where people are watching and it's

the rest of the family of the man who was killed and m and james watching this execution and m is burying her face in his arms and like crying and looking so disturbed and we see he very slightly corners of his lips it's the double it's the double turn up oh no oh no oh no oh no yeah oh god oh my god so we cut back to the hotel oh no first after this there's a scene of the cop that was interrogating him earlier handing him an urn and saying think of it as a souvenir and so he carries this this this urn back to the hotel with him m goes straight to packing up their suitcases we got to get the fuck out of here he's still looking dazed he sets his urn on like the table and uh he starts to pack up as well but then looks at her and says fuck like my passport my passport's gone i always put my

passport in this pocket where's my passport can't find it he says i'll go to the front desk i'll ask them if they've seen it so she stays and he goes to the front desk and he extends his stay for another week he says is my room still available i'll add another week On M's card And so we're thinking We're like certain this is the double At this point Actually no I feel like It's

It could be the double or it could be that he's Like happy Yes I read it more that He was kind of Yeah he was realizing he got away with something and but i like that it is unclear that it could be there's a lot of that there's a lot of that uncertainty in here and will we ever know i think it's i think that's part of the point is yeah yeah okay because also like does it matter doesn't matter and this person

this devil has his body and memory so like it is just like he's being copied it doesn't really matter right right so we see after he extends his stay he sees gabby at a table in the lobby smiling at him and she pulls him over and says please like give me a chance to explain and they sit down for a conversation that is is um backlit so they're silhouetted and it's super super close-up there's a lot of extreme close-ups in this movie where it'll be like just their lips talking or just their eyes as they're speaking to each other in profile. It's very cool. And she basically tells him that what happened to him happened to them years ago. They had made this discovery. And she says, think of it as a gift. This new skin you have,

she says the first day is always the weirdest, but you'll get used to it. And I can see in your eyes that you like it, like you're special, like me, you like it, like me. And she says the first time it happened to us, we were here. However, many years ago, Albin, we, Albin's an architect. And she says he was installing an infinity pool in the resort and a pane of glass fell that, and he, since he was in charge of the construction, it fell and it killed two people and we both got sentenced to death. I think, I think the punishment for any crime in this country is death. So that was the first time it happened to them and she's yeah seems to be excited about that he's part of a club now that this isn't something to be

upset about this is a good thing because what the implication is that she said your new skin so we can imply from that that he either is the double and she's the double too and she's kind of like you're in on it because we're all doubles it's now i'm realizing it's i was like it's not a double like in us it's like it's just it's literally you because they took all your memories and made a new skin suit basically and so maybe the old skin suit died and his brand new, like made in the goop skin. I was kind of thinking of it as like levels, layers of humanity getting peeled away,

which is similar to in, in possessor. If you remember Andrea Risborough, every time she goes into a different person, like part of her dies. And at the, like, that's kind of the end of possessor is like,

she's losing a bit of her empathy and at the like that's kind of the end of possessor is like she's losing a bit of her empathy and humanity each time and becoming like more and more of a shell of herself so i i think it's more that it's like you're reborn they like this loss of consequences first of all and how that then frees them to just like be as kind of like evil or as like not unempathetic as they want to. Yeah. It's basically just like rich people realizing they rules don't apply to them. And like, how exciting is that? Got it. You can do whatever the fuck we want. Um, so we see James goes back to the room. M is, uh, asking, you know, where's the passport? He's like, I didn't find it, but I understand if you want to leave without me,

I will follow as soon as I find it. And so M leaves and he's being kind of rude to her. He's being kind of a dick and he's like, I don't know what you want me to do. Like, I don't have my passport. So bye. In a very unnecessary way. And so they don't leave on the best of terms. Like, she's obviously pissed at him. And after she leaves, James goes out to the beach. And Gabby comes and sits with him. And they're having this conversation.

She's like, oh, where did M go? He says she left. And she says it's maybe for the best. Like, women like Em convince men like you that you're weak. And that can take a lot of conditioning to undo. Sometimes it takes spilling some blood. And he kind of laughs, like thinking this is a joke. It's like, well, I don't know about that. She's looking at him like, yeah, We're going to get you strong again. Oh, Jesus Christ.

Oh, and they kiss here. And then she goes, he goes, I might be missing a scene. I don't remember. But then he goes with Gabby to meet some of her other friends. She tells him that we've made some other, like, met other people like us over the years. And we have some more friends so she takes them into her and albin's hotel room and there's four other people there are two other couples there other rich couples that they're all just kind of um caricatures of rich people just so like all dressed so fancy and laughing and like just radiating rich asshole energy i don't know how else to describe it but they're all like fascinated by james now like a new one they're like how do you feel how do you feel i remember

my first time oh my god and one of them is writing a book and he's like james do you feel? I remember my first time. Oh my God. And one of them is writing a book and he's like, James, do you get scared that they got the wrong you, that you're not you anymore? And he's like, I obsessed over that when it went at my first time, I couldn't bear the thought of being the wrong me. And his wife is like, Oh, stop it. Like, it doesn't matter. Who cares? That's what I always say. Who doesn't oh my god like he's like but we'll never know and she's like exactly so who gives a shit um so they tell him that they're they have a plan for the night which is they're gonna go commit some crimes and they I don't I can't actually remember who this person is but I think it is somebody that works for the hotel that um they're mad at maybe whoever ratted them out for the accident i don't know i had a hard time telling who it is because

basically they like put bags on their heads when they go and hurt somebody. So it's like, I don't know who this is, but, um, they go to some guy's house and break in and the guy has all of the masks at his house. So it must be, he must also be in charge of coordinating that, um, event. And so they all, uh, find the masks and put on the masks and they're dancing around like gleefully like how exciting we get to just commit crimes and nothing nobody can stop us and so they go and bust into the guy's room he's having sex with two ladies and they they bring them all out on dog leashes into the living room and uh they have a gun and they're holding a gun to his head and gabby gives james this kind of daring look like hands him the gun is like have you ever shot a gun before and he's looking scared but also like he wants to impress her and like what's happening and maybe he's

losing a little bit of his humanity as well we're not sure maybe he is having a good time but he doesn't he doesn't pull the trigger but they like hold it to this person's head for a long time and she's just staring at him basically with this look like do it do it do it like i'd be so hot for you if you did it she's like horny for all of this too of course nuts but then there's another another guy in the house that they didn't know about that comes out he has a gun he starts shooting at them he shoots albin in the leg and then they there's like a gunfight bullets flying one of the women naked women gets shot and dies and they all run out basically hard cuts to them in in their like prison gowns the same ones we saw james in as he was getting cloned

the first time and they're all laughing like oh what an absolute riot we had last night like we're gonna get executed again whoa what the hell and uh the cop walks in and goes this time, like you guys have done this so many times and you've taken it too far. I, this time it's for real. Like we're not, we're not doing that again. And takes them all out into the execution room and basically cuffs them to these little stumps. So they're each going to get their throats slit this time. stump so they're each going to get their throats slit this time and james is able to break away and he's like fighting one of the guards and seems like he's going to get away but then the guards slit his throat oh what and they and then quick like in rapid succession all the rest of them all get their throats slit all died camera pans to the audience and we see all of them they're watching cheering having a good time oh my god which is like it's a little trick by the director but also like why would they do that to the clones like it's just a mean thing to be like i guess they're not trying to not be mean they like love to be mean but it wasn't the it wasn't them it was like

the cops that did it being like this time we're going to kill you for real. It's like, maybe they thought it would like instill more. I don't know. It's a fun scene though. I mean, I get why they would do it.

Yeah. It's in this fun little surprise. Yeah. But so then they go back to doing all their bad shit that they like to do. There's have a party one night where Gabby gives James this hallucinogenic aphrodisiac drug, some sort of local like plant thing that they inhale the smoke of. And boy, oh boy, do we get an orgy scene.

Oh my gosh. Drug scenes in these types of movies really scare me. A hallucinogenic orgy scene. Oh my gosh. Drug scenes in these types of movies really scare me. I don't know. Hallucinogenic orgy scene. That's really graphic. I think some of this is cut down from the NC 17 version. You like see penetration, you see penetration from the inside at some point. Oh my God. You see nipples hardening to like way harder i mean way longer than normal nipples there's like a part where the nipple is like three inches four inches long really shocking stuff really really interesting to watch sitting squeezed between between two strangers in a movie theater yeah wow did you see that that nipple was huge it was really long three

four inches really long nipple and it's a long scene it's like minutes long of just this very yeah hallucinatory orgy scene but i mean it was great and i liked it and it but i mean it was great and i liked it and it hard cuts again to the next morning and james is taking handfuls of maraschino cherries and putting them in his mouth all the like sugary goo is dripping down his chest he's shooting them like spitball style at other guests at the breakfast buffet they are just completely just lawless unbound by any type of rules they're doing whatever the fuck they want they're all laughing laughing as they're like spitting cherries at the other guests and it's very funny i don't know what they do that day i wrote can't remember what they do that day but that night they uh again go to someone's house who they had a problem with again i don't

remember who it is but they go into the police station and they j James keeps watch and they come out with the guy that they wanted with the bag on his head and they throw him in the car and they're like, James, this guy made you look like a fool. He must've been someone to do with his execution the first time. They're all doing the drugs again, inhaling the smoke. And they've got this guy with the bag over his head, like crying out for help in the middle of the room. And Gabby's going like, James, show him how strong you are. Show him how strong you are. And this is Alexander Skarsgård.

I mean, he looked so much like Stellan Skarsgård in this scene. I was like, is this Stellan? I can't tell. He looks so much like his dad. But he was good. He goes like he's like doing these animalistic, trying to be hyper masculine, show him how strong you are. And he's just punching this guy in the head over and over. And then he starts peeing on him.

And then they all start peeing on him and they're laughing and punching him and peeing on him. start peeing on him and they're laughing and punching him and peeing on him and gabby's watching all this looking so hot and horny and just like yeah james do it do it do it and she's looking a little like sneaky also and as she's making completely unblinking eye contact with james she leans down pulls the bag off the head and it's james they went as a fun prank to go get another double made and they're now all laughing at him as we're seeing this like bloody face james that he's that he's just beat the shit out of so they can just go make a double whenever they want to i guess i think you just have to pay for it. Yeah. Oh, my God.

It's basically like they have, I guess, your DNA that they need. And so they can just reprint them. Oh, my God. James does get mad at this point. Yeah. And he storms off. And because he's like the butt of the joke here he's embarrassed they're all laughing at him and this is it's too far for him now he he he leaves the room and there we just hear their laughter in the distance and he reaches under the sink and he grabs out that passport that he's been hiding and gets on a bus the next morning to go home.

Gabby and the others are in two convertibles and they drive double that they had alive still. Yeah. I mean, we don't see what happens. He just leaves him. I'm like behind i'm killing that double before i leave yeah that's a good point quite quite the loose end there a huge huge loose end and but so they pull up us alongside the bus and two convertibles and gabby has the gun she shoots at the window of the bus there There's other passengers in this bus like to go to the airport. The bus, everyone screams, bus pulls over.

This is Mia Goth at her most unhinged. She's screaming, Jamesy, James. Oh my God. James. Oh my God. It's so funny. And she's waving the gun around and she's calling him a little baby she's a dopey little baby jamesy come on out and she basically says we just want james he comes out

nobody else gets hurt and he realizes like she'll do it she'll like kill other people on the bus so he comes out with his hands up and we see that they make him walk in front of the convertible as they're driving back to the hotel so the convert they're driving really slow and he's walking in front of it mia goth is laying on the hood of the of the car uh with a bottle of wine and the gun and she's just chugging wine and, and, and just completely humiliating him and saying all these awful things to him. She's laughing.

She's saying, you thought I read your book? Like, Oh my God, I never read your stupid fucking book. And she has a printout of Amazon reviews of his book. She's like, your book sounds like shit.

And she reads this review, like scathing review of how, how talentless he is, how this book is like the dumbest book ever written. And she's laughing and laughing and laughing. She's like, I didn't, we just, we didn't think your book was good. Like I'm not reading this dumb book. We just like wanted someone to fuck with. And we thought we were going to have to make you commit a crime but you're so fucking dumb that you did it yourself we didn't have to make you do it and they're just having the grand old time and her wine rolls off the car and she goes oh oh no my wine my wine and reaches for it and he takes the

that moment to like go to try to snatch the gun knocks her off the hood of the car the the other people jump out of the car and and try to grab him he doesn't get the gun but he just takes the opportunity he darts into the woods and just runs away. And she, Gabby, gets the gun back and is shooting into the woods. It does hit his leg. He gets a shot in the leg, but he keeps running, keeps running, and eventually makes it to someone's house. It's this woman and her daughter, and he just passes out right in front of their house,

but they bring him in. Oh, no. And so he wakes up and we see the little 12 year old boy that killed him the first time it's like watching him from behind a corner and he slowly approaches him and puts the boy approaches james puts his hands around his throat, starts strangling him. James starts strangling the little boy back and then the little boy's head turns into M's head. And now we're like, OK, it's a dream sequence. And then we see the other six rich people in the masks like in the background dancing and laughing and then

m is on top of james also laughing at him being like you're so embarrassing and pathetic and m rips james in half hot dog style no no love to see it absolutely love to see no my favorite and james wakes up this is obviously a dream and he's all bandaged up and not in great shape but um he goes to leave the place i feel like nobody's there he doesn't know what's happening. He's just trying to get out of there. And as he walks out, everyone is waiting outside, uh, with the convertibles. It's nighttime. Now they've got the headlights shining at him and they're like, Jamesy, we missed you. Like, why'd you run away? Um, and he is looking so furious and scared and just not good and they're like we have one final test for you james we just need you to kill this dog and they bring out it's james on a leash on all fours that i don't know if they've like given him tons and tons of drugs but

this version of James is not speaking and it's just going like oh my god and they give other James a knife and they're like just kill the dog James throws the knife into the woods says no like I'm not fucking doing that and

Gabby's like ooh you're gonna have wanted that knife knife like is for your own good. And the dog just charges at James and starts attacking him. And at this point, James snaps and fucking absolutely beats this other version of himself to death. Crushes his head, beats it to an absolute as gabby is like smiling and cheering and being like yay james you're so strong james you're so strong and this is i think another part where the nc-17 cut was more graphic apparently we saw some eyes eyeballs dangling out of skulls which was cut out of the rated r version i want to see those dangling no oh my god but after this

james pulls his hand back which is absolutely drenched in blood just dripping blood off of it and gabby comes up like very sensually rubs her hand in the blood in the blood on his hand he looks completely defeated he's like crying she puts her arms around him and is comforting him and then she takes her shirt back exposing her breast rubs the blood all over her boom and he breastfeeds from her no oh my god what is happening what do you guys think brandon cronenberg's mom is like thinking in this moment i bet she's proud she's really proud she's really i'd be proud i mean it'd be weird but i'd be proud no thanks and then we cut to the the next morning it's their last day and everyone's packing up ready to go home we see we see james putting three urns in his suitcase and they're on the bus on their way to the airport. Everyone is now dressed very differently. Mia Goth is in like a sweatshirt and like a low bun

and looks like no makeup on. Like she's been dressed so glamorous this whole time and now just looks like, you know, airport clothes. And it's this very stark contrast of the night before. Everyone's like, did you remember to pay the gardener? Like I left the envelope under the mat. Like he emailed me and said that he didn't see it. And so they're talking very like normal things of their going back to their day to day life. And we just see james's face is so completely dumbstruck and as he's just watching everyone return to normalcy he looks

forever changed yeah and cannot return back to this same sense of normalcy that they can he looks completely like a shell of himself he doesn't speak speak to any of them, but they get, they get to the airport altogether and they all like hug him. And it's, he's barely like hugging him bad. They're like, see you here. See you next year, James. And Gabby does the same, gives him a hug. And he's like, but it's like, so it's not a good hug. He's like the quickest hug.

And she's like, yeah, see you next year. And they get on their flight and he's waiting at his terminal still just looking so empty then we cut to him back he takes i think a bus back to the resort and he now has these cuts on his face that I don't think he had before. That we saw the first that the pee guy had. Oh, and the one who was being peed on. Yes. Wait, no. One of the cuts, I think, is at the airport. And then we cut back to the resort.

And there's he's sitting there in the rain. This is intentionally ambiguous. It's unclear if there are two of him, one at the airport, one at the resort, or if he left the airport and went back to the resort. I'd have to do a rewatch and really take stock of these cuts and injuries. Because the dog like you think that the dog is a the p1 but they could have made an entirely different james yes yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly um that's the end of the movie oh my god well this is one i can confidently say i have no interest in scene absolutely yeah i won't be watching but i do want to read a bunch of articles about what people think about. And I want to have conversations with people because, oh, my God.

Yeah, I thought it was I thought it was really interesting. I liked that it had this similar theme to Possessor of just this kind of loss of humanity and like what makes us human. And he just looks like he's really feeling like how can i ever go back to my life ever again did he send the clone in his place is he gonna stay at the resort forever did he like it did he hate it did part of him like it and that's why he's so mad i think there's a lot of different reads of it and i think it's that's yeah what makes it interesting wow and everyone is so good in it obviously mia goff is absolutely incredible she's so unhinged she is um really doing a lot for horror movies these days she really is and yeah it's hard to say what her most unhinged

performances but this one is like really sinister yeah so sinister she's so evil in this yeah she's pretty um she's pretty nasty in it like i feel like in pearl is very unhinged but there is a level of um empathy you feel for the character and yeah i i don't think you really feel that here at all no none i also i knew they were like on vacation but i kind of thought they were on vacation like permanently i didn't realize that they're just gonna go home to like she it felt like she like lived there you know i think it is also a little ambiguous. Like the whole, the way that he creates worlds is kind of this, he loosely defines the world so that it feels, I think, unsettling because you don't really know what the rules of this

world are. Because specifically that line in the beginning of james saying where are we kind of yeah yeah is this is he already a clone like i think there are even more questions than uh than i've thought of because it's so ambiguous at times. Dark, just really dark and sad. Yeah. Really dark and sad. Also somewhere in there at, I think probably at the airport, he like calls him and is like, I'm coming home. Like, I'm so sorry. I miss you so much. I love you so much. And so I'm just going to ask if there's any resolution with that or she just left and we never heard from her again her a little bit, a little bit.

You like see him apologizing to her, but I would assume their relationship doesn't stay the same return to its former state. Do we think he has something to write about? Probably. Is this going to cure his writer's block? Perhaps. Oh, yeah. That's another part that I like like about this like exploration of the like male fragility and ego like there's a lot that is trying to say about that and how easily he was manipulated just by someone giving him a fucking compliment yeah and then being like you need to be strong be like yeah i fucking do i do need to be strong my wife does emasculate me yeah yeah oh yeah and that's like also something is like his sense of self is so weak to begin with that he's so the being cloned is like is he losing his self himself or is there nothing of himself to lose to begin with I think that's like kind of a scary thought

of like well that's really scary because I like I've lived my life in a way that I'm like aligning myself with these people that I don't actually share anything in common with like I think it's you know he married into being rich but yeah I don't know it It's I loved it. I thought it was great. Um, big Cronenberg fan. Both of the Cronenbergs love them. Wow. Morning TSDW. That was a heavy one to do on a Monday morning. Great way to start the week.

Great way to start the week. Feel really good. Feel really good. Can't wait to dive back into my normal life. We'll not think about this movie ever again. Wow. Yeah. Um,

Sammy, thank you so much per usual for doing the Lord's work. Yeah. I was very excited for this one. I'm glad that it came through, pulled through. What's the phrase I'm looking for there? Came through.

Yeah. It lived up to my expectations. I look forward to more of his films and of course more of Mia's films. Oh, one of the trivias that I didn't tell you guys, and this is just rumored. So not confirmed, not that we care about facts being true of course but apparently robert

pattinson was offered the lead role in this and declined oh that would have i could see that but alexander skarsgård is more like menacing was the right choice he's the right choice but i i'm i kind of think it's not true just because i feel like Robert Pattinson wouldn't turn this down. Yeah, I agree. I feel like why would he do that? Unless he was just literally too busy. I think, yeah, that's true. It could have been scheduled conflict.

He's trying to get his pasta business up and running. He would have been great on it, too. But I do, I think Skarsgård is the right call. Ever since seeing Alexander Skarsgård in Big Little Lies as Nicole Kidman's abusive husband, he he's just like that person to me now forever. Scary. He's scary. Yeah. I think of him as like so sweet. I actually think he's probably a big dork.

I have like the opposite. He's like so goofy. He's so goofy. I have the complete opposite view of him in my brain. Like every interview I've seen with him, I'm like, oh like oh my god he's such a little dork i love it i love him so much i really think i mean yeah i think like to be in a movie like this you have to not take yourself too seriously like there has to be a part of you that's like really willing to be so vulnerable and look so crazy and weird. And so I really respect it.

I love him. I love them all. Oh, my God. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. OK.

All right. We did it. Infinity pool. Should we do Mia Goth's voice? Mia. What did she say? James, think of it as a new skin. I don't know why my British accent is like not very good anymore.

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