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let's talk about a different man a film
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that stars uh Sebastian Stan as uh
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someone who has uh has a a birth effect
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his face is
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disfigured
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and I don't know how to even describe
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this movie but I'll just say this it's a
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comedy but some people could take it as
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a drama
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Allan tell us the story of a different
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man honestly I took it as a drama with
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comedy elements um but you could see
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Sebastian sand plays Edward a man with a
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uh you know with a disfigurement of his
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face and you can kind of see it there in
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the in the poster um he uh he basically
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lives as normal of a life he can he
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wants to be an actor uh you see him uh
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in these industrial films on how to how
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to react and conversate with your fellow
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facially disfigured uh co-workers uh and
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uh so uh in in walks uh his new neighbor
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uh ingred played by Renata renv I
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believe uh and uh they kind of hit it
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off uh they kind of uh Sparks start to
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fly a bit and she's she's a playwright
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and uh she's so enamored with him and
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his story that uh she she promises one
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day that that maybe she'll make a play
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based on his life okay and so and and
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she wants him to start it so uh one day
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uh Stan Edward is told uh by his doctors
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hey there's an experimental drug that
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could actually heal you 100% and uh and
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do you want to be part of this uh this
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this drug uh testing trial uh and he
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accepts it and lo and behold the drug
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works and uh his face starts to fall off
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and he looks like Sebastian Stan uh and
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uh life life takes on a different
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different tone he uh goes out becomes a
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successful real estate agent becomes a
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model of sorts and then he finds out uh
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that ingred has actually written the
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play and uh she you know Edward
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disappears uh from this change uh and so
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Edward comes in as a different person I
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forget the guy's name but um he says
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that he could play the role even though
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looks normal uh they made a mask of his
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original face he wears the mask and per
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does this amazing performance uh and
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ingred casts her as as his original Self
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uh but that all changes when Oswald
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shows up played by Adam Pearson who
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actually has uh the same disfigurement
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in real life that that uh Edward has and
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uh ingred is drawn to that and feels
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like that authenticity is better for her
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play and replaces Edward with Oswald and
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uh some you got you gotta say the thing
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for Oswald is cool like yeah Edward the
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original Edward even though he's
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beautiful he looks like Sebastian he is
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Sebastian Stan played by Sebastian Stan
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he's kind of still ugly and kind of lame
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person on the inside whereas um he's
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just he he uh the guy Adam Pearson's
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character is cool he does yoga he he
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Embraces life he Embrace his life he was
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married at one point and had a child he
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was married and has a kid he's like a
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player with women he's like he's all
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these things about him that like he
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succeeds in life in all the ways that
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Edward does not it's a comedy I saw this
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movie with a pack crowd they were
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bursting out laughing there's it's so
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it's so it's the it's like David Lynch
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made a comedy see I think I I had to
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just I think this is more of a drama
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than is a comedy and and I also it's
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very similar the themes are very similar
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to the substance in this one uh in fact
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there's a little bit of body horror here
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and I'll say this that the body horror
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as as grotesque as that was there is a
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cringey moment at the end near the end
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of the that is is so much more uh cringy
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than the uh than basically uh Edward's
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face falling off um this again just like
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the substance this is almost a Twilight
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Zone episode uh it has something to say
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about our appearances it has something
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to say about the way we see ourselves
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and the way we accept ourselves um you
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know I always think of life as you know
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we're we're all dealt a hand in life and
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you can choose to embrace that hand and
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make something of that hand or you can
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choose to wallow in self-pity and
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ironically it's Edward who decides who
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who is wallowed in self-pity all his
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life and Oswald who Embraces uh the the
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hand was dealt and that this movie just
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plays on that and um that's why it's a
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okay I'll disagree with you slightly
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it's as much a comedy as it is a drama
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how do I know this when the screening I
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went to had a Q&A with the director and
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the cast Adam and Sebastian s if you're
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a member of the Channel watch the Q&A
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but Adam the director of the movie
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excuse me not Adam Aon oswal yeah yeah
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Aon no no no Adam Pearson is the actor
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Aaron schimberg is the director the the
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director has a klep pallet so he's
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trying to deal with these themes and he
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said as much said it's a comedy as much
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as it is a drama well he's wrong well I
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disagree so the audience I saw it with
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laughed you can take it either way but
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Aaron schimberg amazing amazing job on
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this movie as director and he has a some
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connection to it because he has a cleft
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pallet he's dealt with this kind of
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thing his whole life it's set New York
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it's this movie is it's amazing not for
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everyone be clear not for everyone okay
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because it's a it's like you made
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Elephant Man a comedy all right there
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are comedic moments and I'll just say I
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love the ideas it's it's graph in with
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um about how we look how we present
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ourselves Etc so uh look rce ourselves
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and how we yes how we take on the uh the
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adversities of life and be able to you
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know this whole stupid thing about joy
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that uh that is coming out in in
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politics joy to me has always been this
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idea of finding happiness and
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contentment with the things you have and
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not this constant constant desire and
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drive to to to have things that you
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don't have but to to find joy and peace
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with the things that you do have and
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that includes the way you look the where
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you uh where you've grown up your race
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your gender your skin color everything
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finding Joy is being content with that
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and that's what this movie is
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about well I I really enjoyed this film
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but it is diffic a difficult movie it's
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like two movies the first half is the
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story of Sebastian stands character's
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transformation and then it's how he
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deals with being handsome right while
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while Adam's character Oswalt is just he
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has the disfigurement but he's does but
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he has the personality of a beautiful
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person and because he Embraces himself
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other people are attracted to that
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energy they're attracted to him to even
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you know he's got this there's an
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exchange with one woman in a bar she's
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like oh you like you're gonna call me
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like it's hilarious you can't see it any
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other way except it's a comedy yeah um
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but I agree with you as much a drama so
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uh I recommend the film I recommend it
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what about you Alan oh absolutely please
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go on and see this movie if it can't
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handle the substance see a different man
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yeah or or go see both double go see
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both yeah but this is you you do have to
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be warned before you go in I would not
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watch a trailer though but um well I
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think this poster says it all it does it
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does it does so strong recommend from
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both of us would you agree absolutely
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