Evil Does Not Exist

Maybe I'm mistaken.

But I've seen Evil Does Not Exist, which I really liked.

Now, he makes long movies.

And this is three hours, 16 minutes.

But today I'm on an Iron Man mission because I've got three movies.

I've got the Corrida movie.

I've got the movie from the director who don't drive my car and evil does not exist.

Fortunately the app is down so I can't even remember the name of that director this early in the morning.

So, um, yeah, it's tough.

I, I will say that Evil Does Not Exist is one of my favorite films of all time.

Yeah, that movie rules.

I, uh, I love it more than Drive My Car.

[laughs] Uh, but for those of you that really like To Drive My Car, um, this is definitely, I think, up to par on that film.

Evil Does Not Exist was good.

Don't get me wrong.

I like Evil Does Not Exist, but this is, I think, maybe if not m- even more special than Drive My Car in some ways.

And that's another one where, you know, I look at that, I look at Possible Love, I look at Minotaur, I look at so many films that are performing so well, so, so well, and there's just not a ton of room for all these films to be in a best picture lineup or a best director lineup, and I'm like, "Something's gotta give at some point."

Someone always is left out every year.

Definitely one of the best of the decade.

Uh, Happy Hour, um, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Evil Does Not Exist, all those I loved.

And so I have no doubt that, uh, I, I have no doubt that I'll feel the same way about this one.

Um, I'm also a big Nathan Fielder person, so since that secret screening of and that announcement at Telluride of You Can See Everything, uh, and, and that he w- and it was revealed he was doing a documentary with Elizabeth Holmes, which was kind of speculated, like, um, like, months ago, months prior.

Because ultimately, all these campaigns have a very common link, which is a corporation has decided that we need to build, we want to build this for a particular purpose, and we're gonna railroad any kind of community opposition.

In fact, I highly recommend watching the Japanese film, Evil Does Not Exist, which is actually a really incredible depiction of how corporate interests override the needs of a community.

Now, the capitalists in the right wing have this argument against AI data center campaigns.

They are making the argument that opposing data centers is ridiculous because the technology we use on a daily basis relies on them.

All of a sudden, it's the latest from Ryosuke Hamaguchi, who people may be familiar with.

He did Drive My Car, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Evil Does Not Exist, which I saw at TIFF two years ago, but came out last year.

Yeah.

This one is a co-presentation between Japan and France.

I feel like they've all been really great.

I need to revisit Drive My Car because I remember that the least out of those three.

But Evil Does Not Exist, I thought, was one of the best movies of last year.

Um, and this one, this one was probably, uh, one of my, if not my favorite from the festival.

I'm-- I've seen a couple of his films.

Hamaguchi, uh, he's directed Drive My Car, Evil Does Not Exist.

Um, really liked Evil Does Not Exist.

The ending, sort of, I wasn't sure about, but I really like the rest of the film.

Haven't seen Drive My Car 'cause the runtime's a bit intimidating, and I-- that's such an embarrassing thing to say.