The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 342 March 2017 [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► incomparable i am your host Jason Snell [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► we're here this time to talk about a [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► film from the year 2000 it is M night [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► Shyamalan that's right he's made a lot [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► of movies that people do not like he's [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► got quite a reputation he made the sixth [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► sense that was a kind of a phenomenon [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► his next film was a a sort of a secret [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► code to superheroes I suppose although [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► looking back it's hard to even believe [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► that it's secret but I guess that's the [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► position you have after you've seen the [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► movie a few times it's unbreakable and [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► joining joining us to talk about [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► unbreakable on this episode are the [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► following superheroes of podcasting [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► moises chui yan hello excelsior hi Jason [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► how are you it's good to have you here [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► dan Morin is also here hi they call me [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► mr. class oh do they nope nope no one [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► ever has called me that all right [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► someday maybe right Erica and sign is [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► here hi hi I have a little bit of a cold [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► so i'm pretty sure i'm not a superhero [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► oh that's true and he wasn't gonna be on [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► this episode but I stood in the middle [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► of a bus station until he bumped into me [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► it's justin michael hi tell me something [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► Jason when you woke up this morning was [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► it still there the sadness yep cuz he [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► knew he was doing this by gazmin want [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► want so where to begin should we should [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► we start when Jason Jason I have an [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► opening statement oh my god you beat me [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► to it Jason just just for historical [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► purposes and not to not to steal John [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► syracuse's most signature signature [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► lines but I think we do need a little [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► bit of historical context which a lot of [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► people for this film would like to would [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► like to make all about oh how the movie [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► was marketed how the movie was marketed [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► does that in the other I don't really [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► care about that what I care about is in [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► the context of comic book movies there [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► are a few historical signposts that [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► people should just adjust their [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► chronometer 'he's in their minds to not [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► only was this pre nine [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► 11 this was also just after Batman and [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► Robin and blade those are the most [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► recent comic book movies to have come [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► out and it was a full two years before [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► Sam Raimi's spider-man the this this was [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► a completely different world of [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► quote-unquote comic book movie than what [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► we face today it was kind of a desert of [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► comic book movies in many ways and and [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► and i think it's it's fascinating to [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► look at it back now 17 years later as [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► someone deciding to make a movie of this [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► type with certain genre tropes that were [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► very very familiar with one might say [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► too familiar well at this point and and [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► look at the notion of grounding gritty [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► real-life superheroes in ways that [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► doesn't require them to hit each other [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► over the head with toilets interesting [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► reference their reference acknowledged [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► yeah i think you make some very good [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► points it's it's i was going to say [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► later on but i'll just say it now you [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► know when you've seen 80 different [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► origin story movies you get a little [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► tired of an origin story and then I was [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► watching this saying you know this is an [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► origin story too but I not told in the [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► same way and it's not a familiar origin [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► and it isn't like the third time we've [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► seen spider-man's origin and like 10 [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► years and so it's a little bit different [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► dan did you have a opening statement [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► quick comment just setting my own [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► context for seeing this I i frequently [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► allude to this i think you know to to [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► pick up Moises is through a thread about [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► marketing I figured Leah Lutz this as I [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► think the my favorite and possibly one [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► of the best movie trailer zephyr because [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► there's a movie trailer for this movie [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► that's probably all of a minute and a [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► half long or something like that and it [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► gives away absolutely nothing about this [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► movie I mean basically it's that scene [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► from the beginning where he's in the [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► hospital and that's it and so I was not [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► a pro I did not see the sixth sense [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► because I was not really like sort of a [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► creepy movie aficionado at that point [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► and so I knew basically nothing about [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► this going in and to me it remains one [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► of the great surprises of that era of [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► movies where I went into a movie really [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► having zero [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► idea what it was about and found myself [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► completely blown away and there are some [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► choices in here that are not a hundred [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► percent but i think you know overall it [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► was the fact that it it took me [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► completely by surprise and so too often [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► i think we all agree that movie trailers [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► seem to give up all too much of these [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► movies and like you can watch it two and [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► a half minute trailer and it basically [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► it's like I I don't need to see that now [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► and so it was the refreshing even at [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► that point to see a movie trailer that [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► indeed lived up to the name of a teaser [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► where it gave you just enough to want to [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► go see the movie and that was about it [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► you're gonna grab on my thread I'm going [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► to grab on yours I completely agree and [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► and people would argue that the plots [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► narrative twist or turn toward the end [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► of the movie is the twist and it's part [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► of his whole gimmick but I feel like his [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► subversion of expectation is is [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► something that yeah there's that at the [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► end of the movie that you can point to [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► from a structural perspective but i [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► think that the bigger twist is is [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► specifically that in setting it up as [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► this is something that you want to see [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► and not explaining every last little bit [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► of what this movie is going to be what [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► it is about and leaving that a mystery [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► is the most effective twists in in this [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► in this movie and in this era of his [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► filmmaking this is a movie about a [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► superhero's origin story that was not [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► marketed as being even in the superhero [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► genre for people who don't remember the [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► sixth sense was a huge hit unexpected it [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► has a huge twist at the end it's one of [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► those famous movie twists you're not [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► supposed to spoil [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► Bruce Willis is dead the entire time by [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► the way cuz look what I did there I've [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► been dead for this last five years of [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► these podcasts but nobody talks about [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► that well we all knew that damn not a [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► twist so Shyamalan came from nowhere had [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► this huge hit so there was there was a [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► lot of pressure on him a lot of like [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► what's the what's the follow-up gonna be [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► worried about the sophomore slump how is [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► he going to top himself all of these [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► things and this is a funny movie for [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► that because then after this you know we [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► can we can debate the various films that [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► he made after this I think he made you [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► know I yeah we could debate it but he [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► certainly doesn't go to a justly [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► maligned you can hear defenses of many [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► of them yeah exactly but he's definitely [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► got my reputation and and although i [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► will say in the last few years he's kind [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► of worked his way back to sort of [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► rebuilding his uh his credibility a [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► little bit at the box office keep in [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► mind it and this is this is a man who [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► engendered so much let's just say man I [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► I hesitate to call hatred but I've never [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► I have never been in a movie theater and [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► seeing someone's name get booed before [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► and I trailer I mean is realer oh it was [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► it was crazy like that is just a like a [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► phenomenon that I have never seen since [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► or before and that like shows you just [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► how much strong feelings people have [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► about this guy love them or hate him you [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► know it's better especially hatem it [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► seems but it's fascinating and and it's [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► weird for me coming from perspective of [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► and I'll put my cards on the table here [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► I love this movie I don't think it's [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► perfect but I really love it I love it [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► because it was so unexpected I love it [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► because I do love this exploration of of [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► comic book superhero ideas without you [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► know without it being explicit at least [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► at first and and in a grounded way that [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► you know you're Batman and Robin's were [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► not at the time and it's actually kind [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► of hard to express love of any movie by [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► mem night Shyamalan because people do [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► roll their eyes because he really has [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► got this uh you know reputation in in [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► some circles but I I would for I would [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► argue that this is a legitimate [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► good movie and that's why I decided we [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► were gonna talk about it so thanks for [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► coming on the podcast everybody I think [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► Shyamalan over overall you know despite [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► the bad rap in the in the flawed movies [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► he's made he still stands out in my mind [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► as a director who makes choices there's [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► something very deliberate about his [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► filmmaking and I think that that that [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► shows through in a way that if you watch [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► you know a ton of different films that [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► come out these days or in the last [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► decade or two there's a lot of stuff [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► that won't leave an impact on you one [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► way or the other because it feels very [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► bland it feels as though there have not [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► been any risks taken it feels as though [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► everything is sort of cookie cutter and [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► I feel like again once despite all the [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► other things you can say about Shyamalan [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► he makes distinct choices he does things [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► for purpose and reason I think you know [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► he every shot is intended to have a [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► meaning behind it and he comes across as [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► Hitchcockian to me in his best moments [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► it's not all of his moments but like [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► that to me is you know I think he's one [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► of a very few number of directors [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► especially working in sort of these [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► pulpy genre films who really seems to [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► know what he's about and what he's doing [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► making choices is is one of the things [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► that that I was really noticing when I [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► rewatched this for the podcast and that [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► but I respect this movie and I respect [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► him as a director because it was so [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► clear that he was taking care with with [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► all of the shots with all the choices [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► that he made some of them were not [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► choices that led me to enjoy the movie [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► anymore but I thought they were good [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► solid choices so it's it's kind of this [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► thing where I really respect it and [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► think it is a good film but don't [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► necessarily want to jump into rewatching [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► it again any time super soon yeah [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► deliberate is exactly the word to [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► describe his filmmaking and he's very [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► deliberate in his pacing he's very [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► deliberate in his choices his framing [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► his cement cinematography and he's very [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► deliberate when it comes to crafting the [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► story that he wants to craft regardless [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► of what else is going on in the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► cinematic world you know like his films [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► are different and I don't think they're [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► different because he tries to make them [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► differ [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► I think they're different just because [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► he tells the story the way he wants to [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► tell it without much regard to what else [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► is going on and that really shines [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► through and that's where a lot of the [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► the hatred comes from and the the [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► unhappiness from the audience because [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► people go to the movies and they expect [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► certain things and he's not afraid to [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► subvert those expectations and some [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► people love it and some people don't all [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► right let's dive into the plot and then [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► when you guys will i'm sure all stop me [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► when you want to say something because [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► that's what happens in this podcast it's [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► sort of our thing now when i go through [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► the plot but uh i think that's a good [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► place to start is just gonna walk [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► through the plot and see what pops out [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► at us when i went to see this movie for [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► the first time and the texture it's [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► popping up on the screen and talking [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► about comic books i was like what the [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► hell is this movie you're good to point [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► that out dan that this is that this [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► movie starts with several lines of text [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► talking about comic books and how many [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► comic books are sold and it is kind of a [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► funny moment this is why sometimes we'll [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► get to the end when at the end but [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► sometimes when I hear people say like oh [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► I can't believe what happens at the end [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► and all that's like i watch this movie [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► now and I think it's also are there it's [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► all there in fact you could have done [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► and you could have done without the [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► comic book thing and I remember watching [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► this with a friend of mine who was [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► really into comics at the time and he [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► was like he felt I want to say exactly [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► like he felt it was appropriate of but [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► he's like oh yeah it's just someone else [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► trying to prove how comics are cool and [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► it seems it just seems a little forced [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► and maybe I don't know if this was a [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► choice on his part or get a choice on [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► someone else as far as like you need to [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► justify what you're making movie about [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► comic book you know what shevlin is [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► trying to do here is is he's posing a [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► little puzzle for the audience right [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► which is what is this movie that I'm [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► about to show you have to do with comic [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► books like and then it's almost like he [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► just plants it and like now you can [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► forget about it which I did the next [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► scene is also like you could forget [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► about it and then you were reminded of [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► it later and I think that's kind of [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► interesting that he's like I'm just [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► gonna leave this here pay no attention [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► and you know but then if we watch it [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► again you're like oh yeah he's laying it [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► all out there you just you may not know [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► what to do with it but you're laying it [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► all out there and likewise when we see [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► the scene of a baby being born [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► department store in Philadelphia in 1961 [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► the that you know we leave that for a [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► long time before we finally go back and [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► there's another flashback more like oh [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► yeah the baby at the beginning right [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► because it's it's a being deliberate [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► with it the the scene where Elijah prize [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► is born in the department store is a a [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► beginning I mean the directors presence [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► is felt throughout this film and this is [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► a scene where it's absolutely felt [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► there's a mirror there are people [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► there's a woman on the floor who's just [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► giving birth to this baby who's crying [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► there are people coming in that are [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► behind us we are seeing them through the [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► mirror at various points we also the [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► camera moves and shifts the perspective [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► so you look back at them and then back [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► in the mirror it's a really interesting [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► scene of this baby who the doctor comes [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► and asked if ever anybody has dropped [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► the baby because the baby has many [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► broken bones and that's why it's crying [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► the look on aim and walkers face in that [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► delivery is also fascinating because [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► it's there's a the horror on his face to [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► a certain extent is just really [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► disconcerting and again I remember [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► watching that for the first time and and [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► still trying to figure out what kind of [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► movie this was and wondering if there's [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► yeah like is it disfigured like what is [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► what is happening and I didn't realize [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► you and this time watching it again I [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► think I got a different a slightly [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► different spin on it because there's [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► almost a like there's almost a racial [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► overtones the 60s they call for a black [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► doctor for him right right call for [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► black doctor and the way he looks at the [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► white women like did you did you drop [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► the baby like you know is it's there's a [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► charged bit of it there and then the [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► mirror shot that you point out which [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► with the first several times that we see [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► this character he's always in reflection [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► and of course I'm I notice is like I [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► n-nice use the mirror and then after [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► that it goes its glass which i think is [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► intentional right like oh yeah yeah it's [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► an inflectional glass again he's making [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► choices there may be a little ham-fisted [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► in retrospect but you don't see them [TS]

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00:17:19 ◼   ► I hadn't seen this for years and what [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► the very first thing I wrote down in my [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► notes after the first couple of scenes [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► was very unsettling in the beginning and [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► you know it going back to those title [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► cards with with the the text about the [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► comics it's like okay we're talking [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► about comic books that's fairly light [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► hearted subject and then we go into the [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► scene with the baby who's got broken [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► bone since like wow and like like you [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► said like that's a very emotionally [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► charged seen you can feel the tension in [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► that room and it's like we went from [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► comic books to this and like by the time [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► the that scene ends I forgot the the [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► comic text like it's gone like and then [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► we go to the train and on the train he's [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► sitting there and you know this very [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► awkward uncomfortable feeling and it's [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► just like like a roller coaster of [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► emotions it doesn't let you get your [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► footing at all and I think that's very [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► intentional and I think it helps to [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► sweep you off of wherever you are coming [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► into the movie and getting you ready for [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► like whatever he's going to throw at you [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► nets because it almost puts you on the [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► defensive in a good way I agree and I [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► think something that is present [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► throughout the whole movie and that we [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► see here in in both the the way that we [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► we get these first two transitions at [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► the very beginning of the movie as well [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► as the framing throughout which would [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► consider i mean the cinematography [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► choices that are made are oh this is [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► weird this is strange oh why are we [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► doing the the bobbing back and forth [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► perspective of a little girl the thing i [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► found most fascinating about that [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► looking back at it it is really some of [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► the most comics inspired panel layout [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► design that I've son cinematically to [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► this date and there are a ton of billion [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► dollar comic book movies that have been [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► made that don't have the kind of really [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► arresting visuals that this does in the [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► first two micro scenes and that the big [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► thing about comic storytelling that you [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► know you you read any of the different [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► books that have been made by people who [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► really know their stuff when it comes to [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► comic story telling is that each page [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► ends on a cliffhanger and that's the way [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► that he structures the scenes where we [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► get a little bit of information but [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► we're left just off kilter enough [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► and wanting to propel forward just [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► relentlessly throughout the movie you [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► know they're people who have issues the [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► pacing I think they can go jump off a [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► bridge because that that might be a more [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► useful I've it might be superheroes oh [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► it could be they could be because this [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► movie told me that everybody should be a [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► superhero they could be just got to [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► think about it a certain way but there [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► that that particular bit of I guess you [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► would say danger of being a little bit [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► off-kilter just in the amount of [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► information you get it doesn't feel [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► artificially done to to a frustrating [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► level but it's enough that you you don't [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► feel like all the cards are being held [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► by somebody else and you're being fooled [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► and you know the kinds of the kinds of [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► dynamics that you that you see in [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► suspense or thriller movies that end up [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► making a go out come on or the stuff [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► that a lot of people came to associate a [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► lot of his later work with which is all [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► right fine okay great you get me once or [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► twice but on the third time I'm done [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► with you there are a lot of things in [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► here as we go through we'll probably [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► talk about how they are uncommon book [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► movie like in in the way in the choices [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► that are made in the things we don't see [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► there are basically I mean I know there [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► are special effects that you don't see [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► but there are basically no special [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► effects in this movie that's an [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► interesting choice some choices for [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► spectacular action or you know least [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► spectacle scenes aren't are avoided [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► they're not shown like the train crash [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► lots of interesting decisions that are [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► made that make this feel like a very [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► different kind of movie and the [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► deliberate the slow build like here we [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► get we get a flashback and if we get the [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► title card we got a flashback and then [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► we get the train scene which is Bruce [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► Willis is on a train and he's looking [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► out the window and you know and a woman [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► sits down next to him and they have a [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► conference he takes off his wedding ring [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► which is a you gotta be gotta be paying [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► attention but he takes off his wedding [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► ring slides it off we don't know that [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► we're immediately put on the the wrong [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► foot with him like but will Bruce Willis [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► is the star of this movie and the first [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► thing he does you know is implying happy [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► that he's dead he's cheating on his wife [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► and he he tries to have a conversation [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► with him then pick up the young sports [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► agent who sits down next to him and that [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► gets really painful and awkward and then [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► she leaves and also he's being kind of [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► watched from the row in front of him by [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► a kid sort of upside down at one point [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► and not for the last time upside down [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► that's also a trope that gets rehabbed [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► several times but we get to see the [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► whole awkward conversation that he has [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► with the sports agent and and then he [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► puts his wedding ring back on and the [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► you know then the scene ends with him [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► looking at the window and the train [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► starts honking its horn uh you know and [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► and the the noise we will watch this and [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► I've got the 5.1 audio system and [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► there's a lot of really great surround [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► and subwoofer in this movie again with [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► care it builds and is loud and the train [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► gets louder and louder and louder as [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► we're getting to that moment where it's [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► going to crash and then hard cut silence [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► and it's a it's pretty spectacular yeah [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► there's there's two things that I wanted [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► to call out with the scene and one of [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► them is right in the beginning right [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► when it opens with Bruce Bruce was like [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► putting his head against the window [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► watching the world go by where it just [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► opens the look on his face tells you so [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► much about his character just just [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► looking out that window and that is like [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► the the first of many little moments [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► throughout the movie that just have like [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► a wealth of character building in a [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► single scene or a single sequence and [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► it's just it's wonderful and then the [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► second thing was was again that that kid [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► in the front like they show the kid you [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► know initially and then we we go to her [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► and his conversation with what the lady [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► that he's trying to pick up and then we [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► go back to the kid and I thought that [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► was a wonderful way to bookend that [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► sequence this is almost a short movie in [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► and of itself but I got fail yeah pick [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► up a lady and there's so much good thing [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► packed in here from the body language I [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► just the scene where she were the bit [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► where she says I'm married and sort of [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► like she crosses her arms across her [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► chest everything gets super aqua [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► heard all of a sudden there's [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► foreshadowing when she talks about the [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► quarterback at the college right he's [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► gonna be a god and as we later realize [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► this is you know sort of evidence of his [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► own his own road not taken right plus we [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► see that guy later which is a rare yes [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► sad nice touch twice twice actually i [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► believe ya sees him playing football and [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► then he sees him with the kids rom and [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► the fear of water is brought up very [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► early when he talked about not being [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► able to be a synchronized swimmer right [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► like all of this is just all packed in [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► and like you know like Justin said like [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► it's so economical and yet accomplishes [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► so many things in such a short little [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► time and it's very very realistic I mean [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► if you have ever if a guy has ever sat [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► down next to you and tried to pick you [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► up not sure if that's happened but it [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► has to me and yeah that is that is [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► exactly the kind of awkward that it [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► feels like yeah and another thing about [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► this scene is the you know the sequence [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► from the camera moving left and right [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► from the seat in front right we're for [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► yours here we are we're watching the [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► Apple happen between the crits the crack [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► between the two seats if the r of the [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► row ahead is how we see the whole thing [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► the other thing that the the camera work [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► here accomplishes you know in in [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► addition to the sense of voyeurism is [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► the fact that you only see one character [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► at a time you either see Bruce or you [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► see her and through that you know [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► through that framing he's able to direct [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► the audience the audience's focus [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► exactly where he wants it like if he [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► wants you to see her body language when [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► he's saying something he does that but [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► it's not forced and it's not something [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► you notice when you're watching the [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► scene it's just it's so well done from [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► top to bottom like dan like you said [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► it's like a movie in a scene right here [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► and I just I love it to do like like [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► Justin I had not watched this movie in [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► years although I've seen it several [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► times and what amazed me about it was [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► how much shots stuck with me there are [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► just images and scenes and like [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► composition shots that have stuck that I [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► immediately recognized immediately [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► remembered that even though I haven't [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► seen this movie [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► decade probably like it was amazing how [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► much of that stuck with the ants it's a [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► testament to the cinematography in the [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► direction here is just like these again [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► the choices made they stick with you [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► because they are deliberate and they are [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► they are very measured in the way that [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► they accomplish you know like try to [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► accomplish a specific message through [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► not only what's being done on screen but [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► how it's being shown he uses a bunch of [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► old cinema technique stuff that you [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► would see in Hitchcock that are things [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► that things things people try to emulate [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► these days from those you know old [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► masters as it were tend to be the more [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► gimmicky stuff and not the direct [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► directed attention filmmaking is Justin [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► alluded to so the train crash happens [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► off-screen because our our next scene is [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► actually a boy upside down watching a TV [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► watching the TV and this is this is we [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► learn this is Bruce Willis who is david [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► dunn this is his son he's watching TV he [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► flips around we get a little Powerpuff [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► Girls happen in the middle there and [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► then we end up with the scene of a [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► terrible train derailment and then he [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► turns back around right side up and [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► looks at this and and goes over to the [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► calendar in the other room to see this [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► the sticky note that says that that's [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► his dad's train and then the next scene [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► after that is a scene in the hospital [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► where Bruce Willis is he sits up and in [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► the foreground they're working on a [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► patient and if you're focused on Bruce [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► Willis in the background by the way you [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► will you will miss the blood begin to [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► read across that bridge occasion shot so [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► there's a lot house a lot happening at [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► the beginning of this movie and and in [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► the background the conversation is [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► happening between Bruce Willis and a [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► doctor about the fact that he's trying [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► to figure out like were you sitting in a [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► special place you know that this [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► happened and Bruce Willis doesn't really [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► understand what's going on i get i get [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► the sense from this that he's been [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► unconscious until this point but then [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► you know he's about to be after this guy [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► dies basically he's about to be the last [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► survivor between crash [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► he doesn't have a scratch on him this [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► scene is framed perfectly it's shot [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► perfectly that's slow zoom plus the [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► blood plus like the the audio work like [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► it's it's all just spot-on and lets I [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► mean let's couple this scene with the [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► immediate following scene which is also [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► amazing which is it's all the people all [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► the people waiting at the hospital for [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► word about their loved ones we know and [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► we I think we may be are hearing the [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► last words of the doctor as that scene [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► begins which is we know everybody else [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► on the train died which means everybody [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► waiting at the hospital is waiting in [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► vain their loved ones are dead and he is [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► walking out of there with his kind of [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► messed up clothes but he's just walking [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► out without the the the scratch on him [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► and then you know his his son sees him [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► and runs to him and was a nice pan shot [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► like sort of a dolly shot around him and [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► just the looks on everyone's faces in [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► that scene are almost chillin I think [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► and what are they thinking or looking at [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► him one of these think what are they [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► thinking are they thinking well if this [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► guy survived maybe somebody else did are [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► they are they angry at him because he's [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► revived during grade him to me it always [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► looks like that no mm-hmm the thing that [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► I like about this scene is as they're [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► walking out of the hospital first you [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► get the kid putting his parents hands [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► and in each other and like you you see [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► immediately what's going on and then as [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► they're walking they they drop the hand [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► so like all this you know the context of [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► the first scene of him taking his his [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► wedding ring off and putting in his [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► pocket it makes so much more sense now [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► like okay he's not necessarily the [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► complete slimeball that I maybe thought [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► he was in that earlier scene they are [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► having trouble maybe they're even [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► separated like I wasn't exactly sure [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► what was what was going on with that [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► it's just economy at once again economy [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► and deliberateness of the framing of the [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► shots you know so much more about what [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► is going on now the the information [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► that's been given in such a tight amount [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► of time is pretty fantastic yeah we're [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► what like five minutes into the movie [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► yeah yeah like we have all of this [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► information and we're just barely into [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► it it's very much like an issue of a [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► comic book and you get a gigantic amount [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► of information thrown in [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► you're mine in six frames so i could see [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► one of the criticisms of this film being [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► that it that it does it is deliberate [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► and you could say that the pacing is is [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► slow in some ways I think what shemal n [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► is doing here is downloading us enough [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► that we are willing to take it slow as [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► there as the discovery happens I think [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► that's what at least what he's trying to [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► do because we have just spent a lot of [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► time talking about the first maybe five [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► minutes the first three or four scenes [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► of this film but I think that's what [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► he's doing right he's saying okay I'm [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► gonna give you everything you need to [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► know I'm gonna be economical about it [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► and then you're gonna be you're gonna be [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► interested enough to follow me from here [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► yeah and it almost worked I was I was [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► really interested in all of this it's [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► just I think and actually i might as [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► well talk here about another one of the [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► deliberate choices which which you have [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► seen at this point and that is the the [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► color palette of this film and the [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► writing is very very deliberately just [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► sort of dull and and the pacing also [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► sort of feels deliberate and I don't [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► want a dull on the on the pacing because [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► that's that's not quite right but it is [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► it is it is showing you that this is [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► this is an ordinary guy this is a schlub [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► he is he's just a dude and and I feel [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► like these first few scenes have really [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► have really built that very well and I [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► was interested but as we go on it's like [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► yep he continues to be just an ordinary [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► guy for quite a long time and I just [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► don't care about him that much that's [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► what I agree I I think I think yeah you [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► I I think you could argue that the that [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► it goes a little too long in that [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► interim where he is sort of unclear and [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► that they do a couple of things you know [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► he has a couple of conversations with [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► Samuel Jackson it's like I don't know if [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► you really needed them but but I think [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► it is interesting here you mentioned the [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► color palette and I want to get back to [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► that but the color palette is dull [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► except when it's not and that's an [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► interesting choice that he makes it's [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► like the color palette is is faded so [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► that he can have certain bursts of color [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► to represent beside things well and and [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► in Samuel Jackson's purple area things [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► yeah yeah the ball the people that he [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► bumps into and exactly accentuates the [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► red in their coat or the green in there [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► should everything else is cream and [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► white and gray and [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► well this is color in general too i mean [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► because not only Samuel Jackson's use of [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► purple but the fact that David mostly [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► wears green in both in his sort of dirty [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► uniform as well see wearing a green [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► shirt at the beginning you know [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► obviously everything is chosen and those [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► again superhero tropes right like even [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► when you have those superheroes wear [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► even when they're in their cities [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► they're always wearing the color sure of [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► their superhero outfit right like it's a [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► little key a little cheat sheet for you [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► so you get that let's not forget that [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► his initials are are you know he's david [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► dunn he's a TT he's a superhero doubled [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► initial person Tim and also I want to [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► draw attention here although it said you [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► know sort of throughout the music James [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► Newton Howard score for this is [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► fantastic i love this score really great [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► good for me I mean people people have [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► issues of the pacing and I think that's [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► perfectly fine but something that that [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► at the time I liked was that it wasn't [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► trying to tell the pace of somebody [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► else's version one of these types of [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► stories I really dug hanging out with [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► sad Superman long without a bunch of [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► special effects or building's exploding [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► I'm a fan of movies that are kind of a [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► slow burn like this and I think it [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► really because it takes to heart that [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► idea of like what if there really was a [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► superhero in our world how would that go [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► and the answer is it would take you a [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► long time to be willing to accept that [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► you might be a Sierra right like you [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► would not believe that you would think [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► that dude is crazy and so I you know [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► going down that route and not just being [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► like having it turn into a superhero [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► movie and I feel like there are movies [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► the movie that comes to mind which my [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► most frustration with this was a [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► kick-ass which is a movie that is like [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► hey what if you a like what if you were [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► superheroes in real life and then it [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► just buys into its own hype which I feel [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► like this movie never quite does it sort [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► of keeps it at a distance because it's [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► trying to ground it in our world even if [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► parts of it are unbelievable while the [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► slow-burn here doesn't work for me so [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► much I still applaud it because I [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► actually I do like a slow burn it's just [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► I tend to be a very character centric [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► viewer so if there are characters that [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► I'm [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► stood in during a slow burn I am on [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► board and i love it in this case just [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► that the sheer ordinariness of this [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► person is integral to the story and [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► because he's so ordinary I didn't really [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► like him much so so that's that's the [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► only reason I wasn't on board so this is [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► one of those choices that he made to to [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► pace it and color it this way that I [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► think is fantastic from a moviemaking [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► standpoint I think it makes it a very [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► good film it just makes it a film that [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► I'm less interested in in watching like [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► I I am having more fun talking about it [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► with you guys then I was watching this [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► part of the film well well this part I [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► mean it's not it's it is yeah it's hey I [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► only watch I love this movie and I only [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► watch it every five years or so it's not [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► one of those ones i'll hop on any rainy [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► day that that comes along so i wanted to [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► mention the next scene and and and this [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► is where the story really i mean well [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► the plot summary really starts to move [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► erica because there's not a lot that [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► happens but but if you couple the scene [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► where there is the the memorial service [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► for the victims of the crash with the [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► scene as he's walking out in the [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► hospital what I thought about during all [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► of that and the memorial seen you know [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► it serves a purpose at the end because [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► he finds a note stuck under his [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► windshield but I I think in terms of [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► superhero origins you know how Peter [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► Parker didn't save didn't stop the [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► robber and he killed his uncle band and [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► great power comes great responsibility [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► part of what's going on here I feel like [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► in these two scenes is a classic [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► superhero thing which is why were you [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► the only one to survive what's what [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► makes you special are you meant to do [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► something more do you need to prove that [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► it was you know that that you being [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► saved was right and that you need to you [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► need to be worth worthy of that and then [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► it is hammered home again by the fact [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► that you know he goes to this I mean he [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► goes to this thing and he's the only [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► survivor and they're in the memorial [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► service for all the people who died and [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► then he comes although I did wonder [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► where he parked he must park in weird [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► locations because there's like the whole [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► city is mourning the people with that of [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► the train wreck and there's a whole [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► memorial service and yet his truck is [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► parked in a completely empty parking lot [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► so I guess maybe he was avoiding the [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► media I don't know okay the memorial [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► service is interesting too is it because [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► I was paying more attention to it this [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► time and pay attention to the [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► he what they say about the people who [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► died you've got like a leukemia [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► researcher a third grade teacher yes [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► social worker who are you sir all good [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► people right like that's that's [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► fascinating to me and right who are you [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► why or why did you get saved in all [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► these good people notice they don't [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► mention like oh the sports agent who is [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► kinetic money up the quarterback yeah [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► she does not get a mention yeah but it [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► sure distances all of them from well [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► rent a cop you're not exactly gonna cure [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► cancer or yeah yeah seriously so I like [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► I like that because it just it feels in [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► hindsight especially knowing what this [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► movie is actually doing here it feels [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► very much like this is one of his [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► motivators is Who am I going to be you [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► know I survive this and nobody else did [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► what what am I going to do to live up to [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► that just in the back it doesn't movie [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► doesn't say that but that's how that's [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► the feeling I get from these two scenes [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► he gets though a note under his [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► windshield from Elijah price we find out [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► that is asking him the question of if [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► he's ever been sick in his life and so [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► it's like prompting him even more like [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► oh is this not were you not just lucky [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► maybe this is a bigger issue here two [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► things I love about the note are that [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► one this is the first like really purple [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► thing like what the inside of that in [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► mobile vibrant yeah it's like this [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► vibrant purple and it's like it stands [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► out you know cuz you know Erica like you [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► said that the rest of the movie is so [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► muted when it comes to colors and it's [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► like wow that's that's purple in there [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► and then the other thing is that the [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► content of the note asks about being [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► sick it doesn't ask about being injured [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► ask about being sick so it starts to [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► hint at the dimension of his powers and [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► his abilities and his differences and [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► it's like it's not just that he can't [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► get hurt it's like there's more to it [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► than this and i love that the only thing [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► that I don't like about the note is it's [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► it's where the movie breaks a little bit [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► for me I mean I get that he's an [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► ordinary guy but the idea that he didn't [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► know if you'd ever been sick that's that [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► strains my credulity a little bit i mean [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► guess he must have been an only child [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► because he didn't have his parrots [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► comparing you know his number of sick [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► days with with anybody else's but you [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► know not knowing if you've ever taken a [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► sick day in the however many years he's [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► he's worked there and and it in your [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► entire life to a little too far I i I'm [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► kind of okay with it because i think it [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► is that idea of like you don't notice [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► these things sometimes if you're not [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► really paying attention to it like if I [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► you know and I think it really depends [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► like there are definitely people I know [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► who can give you the chronicle of like [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► every time they've been ill over the [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► last couple years and then I know people [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► and and I fall in this category mostly [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► is like yeah I can think of incidence [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► where I was legitimately sick but you [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► know I don't I certainly don't think [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► about all the days when I wasn't sick [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► and so I feel like I know a lot of [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► people who are the other way around like [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► oh I never heard Sam yeah I don't know [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► but I it works for me because I feel [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► like it is this idea as he starts to [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► explore that and he's realizing like [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► yeah do I really not like if you're just [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► sort of out of it and like kind of [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► occupied with other things and we know [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► he's had this sort of malaise right like [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► almost that's true that him just being [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► like they're somewhat depressed if [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► anything okay you've made it better yeah [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► all right at some point in here we see [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► our other flashback with Elijah which is [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► when he's a little boy and he's looking [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► out the window and his mom basically [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► coaxes him outside by saying I put a [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► present on the bench across the street [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► and it's a comic book and I bought a lot [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► of these comic books and every time you [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► go outside you can have a comic book so [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► we see the route of Elijah's interest in [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► comics which is tied with his mother [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► trying to get him out of the house cuz [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► he just doesn't want to go outside [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► because he's afraid of the world because [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► he's afraid the world is gonna hurt him [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► my suspense please wait wait who puts a [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► present on a bench across I can for this [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► too they also address it immediately [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► which is that she put it there on [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► purpose right like you know you and he [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► says what it someone's gonna take it and [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► she says well you better get out there [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► right like so I think she gave somebody [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► a heads up out there saying watch this [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► make sure nobody takes it until my kid [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► comes and gets it it's like it doesn't [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► really bother me because she says [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► immediately liked you better go get it [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► right like it's not just the this is a [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► weird scene this is also a movie where a [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► guy who looks like Bruce Willis bench [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► rs500 nice well my thing about it is [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► that she is the mother of a kid who is [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► is hurt a lot and and I have friends who [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► have who have children who are our [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► fragile in some ways and those moms get [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► tough so my thought is that when she put [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► it out there like she looked at all [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► those other kids and like just gave them [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► the law yeah and they were like or word [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► or gave them a mission of nobody touches [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► this do you understand air yeah exactly [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► it once again this is an intro with a [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► mirror shot right he's looking at the TV [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► which is both a call back to the birth [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► scene at the very beginning and to Bruce [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► Willis's son watching the TV in the [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► first shot that we get of him and so [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► it's really again once again it's glass [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► in the scene with the mom give him the [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► comic book she has the line they say [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► this one has a soprano yes that is too [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► important and it's also a one another [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► reversal shot where it the comic book is [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► upside down yes and it follows him [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► around as he turns it around and then [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► continues around until it's red Sun he's [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► the villain so it's upside down and [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► inverted right like that makes perfect [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► sense that I think that shot is a little [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► bit too showing a little myself yes yeah [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► no I'm a sucker for that because like [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► that is a perfect metaphor for the point [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► at which his life turns around yeah and [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► it's like all right yes I mean that the [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► the surprise ending thing is a little on [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► the nose when you're watching this and [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► have already seen it but layout again [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► yeah yeah and there is a surprise to us [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► to the end it is the thing that kicks me [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► because like I've like how did I watch [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► this movie before it's coming well we've [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► got a 80 @ mi so then we do see they do [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► meet the present day Elijah runs this [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► art gallery there's a funny scene where [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► a guy is going to buy this fine piece of [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► art that's been described by Elijah [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► about all the reasons the way that the [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► the way the hero is depicted the way the [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► villain is depicted and the guy says oh [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► my four-year-old kid is going to love it [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► he's like nope nope out of the store [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► somebody's wasting somebody else's time [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► out which is a great scene actually and [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► then Bruce Willis arrives so Bruce [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► Willis and his son come in and they have [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► a conversation with Samuel Jackson where [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► he has a long bit of dialogue about the [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► history of kind of comic art he is [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► explaining what again a little bit on [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► the nose he's got hieroglyphics [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► behind him as he's explaining that that [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► illustrations go back to the days of the [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► Egyptian hieroglyphics I'm like okay I [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► got it I got it moving well I'm glad [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► they didn't have him stroking a cat yeah [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► another back chair there is a there at [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► and he says you know that people and and [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► he begins to get his thesis about how [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► like people are extraordinary and maybe [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► maybe you were extraordinary and and [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► I've been looking for people like you [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► and and he gets to do who do his whole [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► download and Bruce Willis's responses [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► don't don't drink anymore that water son [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► you might want to throw that water out [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► because he's like oh this is a crazy [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► person that's his first take on Elijah [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► is this is a crazy person we need to get [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► out of here yeah this is the single the [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► single clumsiest scene for me in the [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► whole movie for two reasons one is like [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► the whole like comic book as history of [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► people who have powers being marketed [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► and stuff like comics aren't that [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► ancient you know like like comic books [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► are just they're not that old you know [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► and they have like well documented [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► origins and it's like that's not what [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► this is but he has a key is potentially [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► crazy person so yep that kind of gets a [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► pass but then like the way Bruce Willis [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► reacts with the don't drink the water [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► and then they get up to leave and he's [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► like it's very clear at this point that [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► that his character David feels that [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► Elijah is a crazy person and then the [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► scene ends with Elijah asking what kind [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► of work do you do and then David tells [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► Elijah that the person he thinks is [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► completely crazy oh here's my job at the [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► place where I work it's like what are [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► you what he's weirdly polite to a lot of [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► people yeah I think he realizes whoa [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► whoa whoa I went I went way too fast I [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► almost tipped my hand a bit too far you [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► know I just about scared this guy off [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► and he visibly in the next interaction [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► that he has with David dials it back a [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► bit where he goes a bit more open ended [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► with him [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► let's let's David do more of the mental [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► answering of the questions that he's [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► that he's asking then answering his own [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► questions as he's asking them which is [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► kind of what he does on down-south calm [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► down you blew at that time come down I [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► mess it up with the sky almost visit up [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► with this guy and I don't want him to [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► run away so i should mention a couple [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► things happen that i skipped over he [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► does find out that he's never taken two [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► sick Danny gets a raise which i think is [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► really nice we also see him at his place [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► of work and there is a fantastic shot i [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► just want to mention which is he's [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► wearing his poncho standing in the [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► tunnel watching the football team [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► practice and could not look more like [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► Batman in that job it is an amazing shot [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► he is just like hood in a cape you know [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► yo you put that you put the ears on me [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► looks like Batman and if you look at him [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► face forward and see the green in the [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► cloak he looks like the spectre but [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► nobody knows the spectre is nobody cares [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► that that's true also there are a couple [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► scenes including one that happens right [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► after the scene of the in the gallery [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► where he's at where Bruce Willis is at [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► home with Robin Wright who is his [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► estranged wife he goes through some old [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► clippings including his football career [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► and the crash but then we get this is [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► where we get the scene where she [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► basically which we're still figuring out [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► exactly what state their relationship is [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► in and this is the scene where she asks [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► since we've been separated have you been [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► with anybody else and he says no and she [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► kind of breaks down at that point so you [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► can see now you're getting more of the [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► outline here of of the fragile nature of [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► this relationship and you know are you [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► know they're they're not in the same [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► room but they're under the same roof and [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► and are that is it over or is it not [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► over and they're they're not clear and [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► we get another scene of that we a couple [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► of scenes where we're slowly putting [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► together kind of some we never get all [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► but some of the details of their [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► estrangement that's an interesting shot [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► because Bruce Willis is entirely from [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► behind and the entire cameras on Robin [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► right for that entire scene which is [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► powerful because it's like an [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► unflinching Glick gaze right and that's [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► it's weird because we don't see him his [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► reaction to that and this is all sort of [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► ties into his character who is just kind [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► of sleepwalking through life right like [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► that's the whole thing we're getting [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► from him and this fur [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► half of the movie is that he is just not [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► he is not in it he is not engaged he is [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► not awake for whatever reason he is just [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► not in this and then the other thing [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► that I want to note was like almost a [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► very literal Chekhov's gun scene wait [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► well gun out of the closet and it's like [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► yep my guns still there and do I have [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► Chekhov's gun I do all right I do away [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► thanks check out I mean I assume it's [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► because he's just had this really weird [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► interaction with a crazy dude who seems [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► to be too into him but it is a little [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► it's a little tan odd scene but it is [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► clearly there to set up something will [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► ya later yeah the other thing about the [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► closet seen that struck me as like [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► that's another like blatant example of [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► comic book framing you know with the top [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► down angle like yeah most movies would [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► have shot that just through the through [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► the open closet door you know as a [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► simple side angle but we are above the [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► ceiling in that show yeah we are about [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► the ceiling he's he's literally boxed in [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► by the closet like you can imagine [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► reading the comic that's in and the the [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► frame is the closet itself and it's just [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► like for anyone who reads comics they [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► notice that but for anyone else who [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► doesn't read comics watching the movie [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► it's like oh that's an interesting [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► choice of framing it's not it's not like [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► just thrown in your face and over the [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► top it's just so well done and so like [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► interlaced throughout the movie so well [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► that's just like oh that's so nice next [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► up also we are at the stadium and Elijah [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► comes to talk to to talk to David again [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► and we get to see David at work and one [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► of the things we see here is our first [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► hint that perhaps he's not just [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► unbreakable but has other abilities [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► which I I watching this movie it's one [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► of those things like whoa like wait a [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► second there's a whole other dimension [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► happening here where he gets the sense [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► first off it's very it's it's very [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► subtly done here where he basically [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► shows off that he thinks that that guy [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► in the lion might have a gun and so he [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► says start the pat downs and they start [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► the pat downs and he tells Elijah yeah [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► he'll just get out of the line if he's [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► got something and he totally does get [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► out of the line and so it's like I shot [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► that holds on him and you're like is he [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► gonna get out of line is he gonna get [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► out of line yeah he finally does and [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► there's this conversation about like he [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► got did [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► get an image of of it and it's a silver [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► gun with a with a black grip right and [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► and and Elijah ends up pursuing him down [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► into the subway falling breaking many [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► bones but seeing as he's laying upside [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► down at the bottom of the steps he sees [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► the guy jumped the turnstiles cuz this [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► guy also was a fair cheat damn this guy [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► he's even uh and sees that he has the [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► same gun that David thought he saw [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► flashed on basically without actually [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► ever seeing which is a confirmation that [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► David has even more powers than we [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► thought and that's this block in the in [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► the in the stadium love the creepy [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► Cadillac which like once again is like a [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► super villain card all the padding on [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► the inside and again I was like how did [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► I not notice this the other thing that [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► really got me was that the call back in [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► a certain way he goes to follow this guy [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► across the street and down the subway [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► and I thought to myself the present is [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► across the street he is like same thing [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► with him chasing down this you know like [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► whatever this means to him right he has [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► to go he has to thwart the stairs and of [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► course when he falls to the bottom of [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► the stairs and sees the guy jumped the [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► turnstile he's upside down yeah each [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► time he's chasing the next chapter of [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► his life also by the way in our [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► continuing story of one of the themes of [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► this movie being easy parking uh he's [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► next to a stadium in a football game and [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► his cars just with handicaps using any [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► gifts I suppose that's true I just he [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► it's not a problem to park Nick's [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► parking next to a football stadium [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► during a football game is not easy to do [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► but Elijah manages I I wondered the one [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► thing they need is seen that strikes me [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► as maybe a little over the top is the [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► cane shattering oh I love the cane [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► chatter it's no wait in which it is an [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► awesome image but I also wonder why do [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► you have a glass game unless you're a [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► supervillain mr. well yeah cuz he's [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► named mr. glass and this is a comic book [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► movie and Bruce Willis bench presses [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► thank you much as you brought me back [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► down to reality that's ok thank you i [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► needed or whatever this is it only takes [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► 500 pounds the other thing is when he's [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► crossing the street they're like the win [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► and like makes that flap of his coat oh [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► yeah girls and you see that line again [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► that vibrant purple yeah so good next up [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► we have the scene where Bruce Willis [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► does benchpress 500 pounds and we [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► learned yet another dimension of his [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► character not only is he not only does [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► he have sort of a spidey sense and is [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► unbreakable but he is super strong but [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► before that scene starts we get a scene [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► outside where he sees his son and his [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► plate he's playing football which his [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► mom is going to be upset about so we're [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► laying the groundwork there about the [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► fact that that she Robin Wright had a [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► problem with football and perhaps that [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► went into his car crash there but we do [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► see the cornerback who is going to be a [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► god down on the field playing with the [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► kids which is a callback and it's sort [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► of a sad moment of like oh yeah that [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► agent who died and and also I love this [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► scene because at the very end of it what [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► the kid says is all right guys I can't [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► play anymore I gotta go work out with my [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► dad it's just adorable and then he puts [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► his hand on his back as they walk away [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► just oh it's uh it's there's something [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► about that that is so just hits you [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► right in the feels he's just showing off [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► that is and loves his dad the thing the [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► thing I love about the the bench [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► pressing 500 pounds is one of the [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► complaints that you could make about [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► this movie if it was handled more poorly [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► is that how would this guy not know that [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► he couldn't lift so much like he that [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► he's that strong but it's very clear [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► that he has to struggle pretty much just [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► the same amount before exactly for a [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► reasonable amount of weight and and as [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► they keep adding like he doesn't even [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► realize that his kid added weight [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► instead of took it off so it's it it [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► doesn't have that same sort of like you [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► know kid discovers he's super strong by [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► lifting a car at the age of 2 or [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► anything so I appreciated the actually [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► the performance from Bruce Willis [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► because it really did look like he was [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► straining and struggling and the way [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► that that was slowly built as Elijah [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► says have you did have you two ever [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► tried to develop it and the answer is no [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► right and this is a good example of that [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► is he knows he can lift this it was [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► really hard he probably can't lift [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► anymore so he'll stop and he never tests [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► himself that's his life yeah that was [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► self the self imposed limitation of [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► I live in the real world in the real [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► world you know people with superhuman [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► strength don't exist so when you've [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► reached the top end of what somebody on [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► the football team bench presses well [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► guess what you lift the most on the [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► football team and nobody else can match [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► you so there's nobody else to compete [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► with and you stop the shooting of this [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► entire scene is fantastic that love the [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► kid walking back and forth I love the [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► lines you think you could have beaten up [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► Bruce Lee like he knew karate like that [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► is such a thing like that you know [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► you're thinking who doesn't want to [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► think their dad can beat up Bruce Lee [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► right like and then the scene where he's [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► like you know how much did you take off [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► and they cut back to them I just love [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► his delivery on I'll I'd like it like [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► it's just so good and he keeps moving [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► the kid keeps moving further back as the [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► scene goes and he puts more weight on [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► and i love this is the scene that sold [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► me on this movie when i was watching it [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► for the first time and they sort of you [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► know they're sitting there and there's [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► this brief pause the kids has let's put [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► more on every suppose just thinks about [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► it goes okay okay like it was just that [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► i just love that because it's the [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► starting he's starting to realize [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► something is weird right and it's just [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► the buy-in is there a and he's letting [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► his son into his into his world here he [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► trusts his son to like help him figure [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► this out which is kind of cool and his [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► son was obviously with with them when [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► they met with elijah the other thing and [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► lauren brought this up she said she [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► talked about the framing to and again [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► not a subject she spends a lot of time [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► talking about when she sees a movie but [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► she said very specifically the shot that [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► got her was the weight lifting shot [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► we're in camera the camera keeps coming [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► in and out as they as the weights keep [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► going up and down it just it's a shock [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► it's really good there's there's some we [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► keep talking about Hitchcock there's [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► some Spielberg flourishes in here too [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► but but but yeah this is I really like [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► this scene and how his son is like [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► collaborating with him on it you should [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► never do anything like this you know [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► that i love how the kid keeps standing [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► further back he's like staying power [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► therefore i'm not quite sure what would [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► happen about this is dangerous you [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► should stand for the back like like in [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► case awaits y or something and then and [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► then you cut back to him and he's [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► further back he just keeps going back [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► air it's amazing but I I like that I [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► like that Spielberg in touch and it's [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► something that you know again I think [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► unfair [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► maligned shyamalan his people were like [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► oh he's just a crib artist so he just [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► cribs from Spielberg oh he just cribs [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► from Hitchcock now he cribs from all of [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► them and the combination of it is [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► entirely centered around his personality [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► and it's why you know I feel like this [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► movie worked and and is really one of [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► his best is is because they're there is [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► that kind of authentic feel to the [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► relationship between father and son [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► which oh yeah you know just getting a [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► kid to perform well is one thing but [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► building a decent narrative around a kid [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► actor and their relationship with [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► parents is entirely another and the fact [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► that he accomplishes both of those is is [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► utterly fantastic I just will always [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► remember the paint cans for some reason [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► now yeah with me for so long you just [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► the those image of the paint cans [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► attached to the dumbbells yep just so so [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► neatly attached it with duct tape and [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► that line too how much how much weight [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► did you put on all of it all of it [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► Elijah needs physical therapy because he [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► fell down all the steps and he goes hut [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► 2 from right like he's in contrast yeah [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► you know David's lifting 350 pounds and [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► he's in a hospital and so and then he is [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► in physical therapy and he chooses the [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► place where Rob and right works because [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► he's a crazy stalker and says oh did [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► David never tell you about that whoops I [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► revealed that I know who your husband is [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► so she doesn't walk away at that point [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► which is the part that freaks me out a [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► little bit like they keep going she's a [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► carer yes she is and she's also [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► protective of David himself you know not [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► not just her wanting to try to find a [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► way to make a relationship work but she [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► she knows that he is hurt and hurting [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► and damaged and you know he can't just [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► be taped back together again emotionally [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► but I think part of it might honestly [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► the character motivation at least be [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► that she she wants to get as much [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► information out of this guy who I mean [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► what's he gonna do jump out of the chair [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► and and get her a you know she she [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► suddenly goes on an immediate quest of [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► weight I'm gonna find out what's going [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► on here and then we're going to put you [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► in handcuffs and send you away yeah and [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► then she realizes oh maybe this is not [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► as bad of a thing or a bad thing I know [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► well okay we'll figure it out this is [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► also the scene where we find out more [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► about why she doesn't like football [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► where she's yeah um you know she's like [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► you know it's the opposite of what I do [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► and and isn't that a little on the nose [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► because if you look in the newspaper [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► clipping about the car accident her [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► maiden name is inverse oh yeah is it [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► really oh yeah look it up it's there and [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► I was like that's easily I'll take it [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► I'm okay with it Bruce Willis is bench [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► pressing how many pounds boys at [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► pressing how many pounds boys at [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► 500 less than pecans in there what a pay [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► cans way but yeah what do paint cans way [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► indeed like that the cotton the constant [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► reference to inversions and reversals [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► and and symmetry and that sort of thing [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► like throughout it would it would get to [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► a point where it would get to the upper [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► level of my tolerance for it but by the [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► end of the movie everything balanced out [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► and I kind of hate him for that because [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► I ended up working out so well that I [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► you know I you know I really wanted it [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► to bother me enough but but he earned [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► enough by the end of the movie that I [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► kind of was like all right all right ms [TS]