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But, uh, and you do get to see a, a pretty decent...

E- E. Honda, of course, uh, is a sumo character.

Uh, you get to see a pretty decent fight scene with E. Honda, even if he doesn't feature that significantly in this.

Um, you know, I, I think the strong suit of this movie is that it enlists a lot of people who actually have, like, a lot of physical ability.

Uh, Andrew Koji, who plays Ryu, one of the main characters, is, uh, a martial artist in addition to being an actor.

He was on that show, "Warrior." Uh, you know, you have, uh, a, a few wrestlers, pro wrestlers, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns.

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He shot him in the head! Allison, what'd you think? Yeah,

you know, it's hard for me to be entirely down on a movie that has a very charismatic canine co-star, and this one definitely does.

It's got a German shepherd who I believe its real name is Uber.

And it is shot in the really stunning South Island of New Zealand, which is... playing the part of the Alaskan backcountry, all of which is nice.

But yeah, it's a pretty stereotypical movie about...

I would say it would fall into the category of troopaganda in that it is a movie that is very much about venerating the idea of serving in the military while being incredibly vague about any actual military action or even where military Brad Pitt's character has served in his 30 years as a Green Beret.

It kind of just erases any specifics of what military action he might have been involved in, you know, or people he might have come into contact with.

Allison, what did you think? How was Rinko Kikuchi as the lead for you?

How is this one?

Yeah, this is, you know, kind of a comeback for Greg Araki.

This movie got a lot of attention out of Sundance.

It is basically a kind of famously Gen X filmmaker making a movie about...

This millennial, slightly problematic, or definitely very problematic millennial artist who starts off an affair with her Gen Z employee.

So it's covering a lot of ground.

It's a very funny movie.

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I don't think we had all our thoughts together yet, so I'd love to hear Allison and Katie, yeah, what you thought.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the, it's the first film of, like...

I mean, we're still pretty early in the festival.

I, I did get to see some things ahead of time, but it's the first film that really just kind of, like, es- blew me away.

I, I have liked Jane Schoenbrun's, Schoenbrun's other films, but this was...

It felt not just like a kind of progression, but also, like, it's, it's warm in a way that their other films have not been.

The film is kind of stifling the feeling a little bit, and at the same time being like, "Okay, but that's what the film is about." You know, I haven't quite found my footing, and it's, it's just nice to hear your take, which I think is really, you know, you really felt the feelings of it and that, yeah.

Like you get it.

You understand what she's feeling at that point, and she also just wants to make him mad, and she's coming out with that.

But I think also, you know, you get that flashback early on of her...

I think it's like, like the Nolte scene where I think it's like Thanksgiving dinner maybe, and it's like all of the women are at the table and all of the men are, the men are in the other room.

And you're like, you can sense her being like, "Oh, is this my future?" Like this kind of like we're in the kitchen or we're at the table and we're talking about women stuff, and like this like really traditional gender split and these kind of like gender roles.

Uh, like you can watch him becoming more...

I mean, there's a point where- the point where, I mean, she's obviously acting out at the pa- the pool party, but like he has like a panic attack over that, right? Like that kind of, like he is already settling into this more kind of like socially conservative pattern that he grew up in.

Yeah.