Maintaining Civility

Let's dive into my things you possibly perhaps didn't know, shall we? now i have two uh movies i'd like to kind of discuss a little bit i'm not going to spoil them for you guys in case you want to watch them because i think you should i think they're both are they both are really good movies so i'm going to try not to spoil them as much as possible but just give you a synopsis of both now i'll start with the assessment the assessment is a dystopian sci-fi thriller type of movie um It actually, I wanted to start with this one because it makes you think on so many different levels.

Now, I will say that this movie for me was kind of like, it's nothing that you watch more than once.

Okay, let's just put that out there.

Okay, let's just get that out.

It's nothing that you watch more than once because it's kind of like there is no, you know, don't go looking for a happy ending if you like that kind of movie like that.

It's not that kind of movie.

It's kind of, it's very real.

It's realism because it touches on a lot of things that I think that we're going through in society right now.

you know, with the climate changing, the classism, babies, newborns, women having difficulties getting pregnant.

And it also touches on the government being in your business about how you procreate and who is deemed good, good enough to have a child or good enough to adopt, which we're really not too far off from that now.

So the movie just kind of touches close to home to where we are now.

And I'm on this road to showing a lot of people how art imitates life or life imitates art or whichever way you want to put it.

Something is imitating something else, period.

Now in the assessment, a near future society tightly controls procreation following an environmental disaster.

So the plot follows, the plot basically follows a young lady named Mia and her husband.

And it's a couple living in a climate controlled dome and they must pass like these grueling seven day, this grueling seven day psychological test to where they're thrown into chaos.

um by a government evaluator so a woman comes into their home and evaluates them for seven days to see if they are truly prepared and upstanding citizens enough to have a baby in their home take a baby into their care so it looks like it's an adoption agency and and the person is just coming to fill them out and take them through a rigorous uh test of patients of care parental care how they would deal with a baby in the home and these tests that that the young lady takes them through is a lot almost unbearable and um that's where the movie kind of takes a sinister kind of turn but you know you have to be on your p's and q's period for this evaluator to come in your house living in your house sleeping in your house eating in your house like you have to treat this evaluator however she wants to be treated she may one day want to be a four-year-old you know what i'm saying And you have to treat her like she's four years old.

She may one day want to be two.

Because if you're trying to get a infant, she needs to take you through all these different stages of what age the child is going to be.

That's kind of the kicker in all of this.

I would mostly say it's a psychological thriller because it definitely has to do with your psyche.

And your patience to be in that kind of situation.

Their lives are just thrown into chaos.

As it gets, as the days progress, the evaluator just gets increasingly just bizarre and invasive and volatile, really.

Throwing temper tantrums.