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Allan I'm so happy you saw this heretic
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is written and directed by the the two
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writers who actually did a quiet
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place it's it's uh Scott Beck and Brian
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Woods they wrote a quiet place they've
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uh directed films before and they did a
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a movie about a haunted maze which I
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thought was very good and they directed
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uh heretic starring Hugh Grant tell me
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the story of heretic yeah heretic Stars
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uh Sophie Thatcher and Klo East as two
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Mormon missionaries uh in I forget where
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it is I think it's in New England uh
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they sister Barnes and sister Paxton uh
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on this day they are going out on their
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normal missionary tour and the last
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house that they're visiting is of Mr
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Reed uh Mr Reed is a older man played by
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Hugh Grant and uh it's rigning and uh uh
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so they show up at the doorstep they do
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their Mormon Spiel and uh Mr Reed is
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very interested in what they have to say
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but uh they can't go in unless there's a
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woman in the room with them for for
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their safety right and uh but
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fortunately Mr Reed's wife is in there
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cooking blueberry pie and so they agreed
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to go in uh and uh they begin to talk
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the the Mormon the Mormon religion and
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at one point Mr Reed uh becomes very
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engaged in the conversation and talks
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about uh the history of Mormonism
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aspects of Mormonism and at the same
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time the girls are just kind of nervous
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because Mrs Reed has not yet showed up
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even though they they smell some
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wonderful blueberry pie in the uh in the
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back there and uh what winds up
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happening is it becomes uh it becomes
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much more Sinister uh Mr Reid has locked
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them in uh the walls in the roof of the
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house are lined with metal so their
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phones don't work and there is no Mrs
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Reed and in fact uh the door is locked
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they can't get out and in fact the
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blueberry pie that they smell is a
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candle is a candle which which by the
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way uh a24 are are selling the candles
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yeah for blueberry I got when I'm done
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I'll I gotta tell you my experience with
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this because I did the multi- sensory
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screening of this oh neat okay but uh
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but uh so what happens is that now the
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girls are stuck and this becomes kind of
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an escape room thing except for the fact
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that um Mr Reed uh is very knowledgeable
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in the world's religions and is GNA take
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this opportunity to kind of break down
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and dispel their belief in their
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religion in this case Mormonism and uh
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he he takes them through room after room
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where a puzzle and conundrum is made
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about faith and about belief and this
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movie just kind of uh it there is you
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know it balances this kind of uh
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intellectual discussion of religion with
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uh escape room torture horror and uh
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I'll say this um Hugh Grant does a
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really good job in here but it's his
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co-stars Sophie Turner and uh or Sophie
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Thatcher and Klo East uh who are the
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stars of this uh they give a great
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performance in terms of building tension
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uh buil the feeling of danger the the
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knowled the figuring out what the next
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step needs to be and being able to take
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that next step in pure Faith um yeah I
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found this a very f fascinating film uh
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and uh and I I'm glad I saw it I wasn't
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planning on seeing it but they offered
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me a multi- sensory experience uh which
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I couldn't uh pass up and I'll tell you
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this the multi- sensory experience was
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when uh when the the blue the the candle
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of blueberry pie uh is lit uh they
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theater so I had a nice plate of of
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blueberry pie that that was this multi-
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experience and so real quick a couple
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more things on the story but there is an
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amazing conversation about the evolution
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of the game Monopoly yeah and where it
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came from and what he's doing he goes
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through the board game Monopoly its true
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Origins what it meant and board games he
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even brings up in a discussion of
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religion Star Wars episode one and jar
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jar and Hugh Grant um doesn't imitation
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of Jar Jar excuse me it's so funny and
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then he's comparing he's uses the board
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games and then talks about how religions
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and uses that analogy to talk about how
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religions have all copied each other
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throughout the throughout the iterations
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they're all it iterations of religion
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are all kind of copies of one another
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and he uses the board game is kind of
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that analogy and it ends this is from
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the trailer it ends with basically there
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are two doors belief disbelief choose
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one door and then the movie escalates
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from there that's about yeah I should
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mention no more than that no more than
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that though please it's it's very much a
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horror film yes there are horror
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elements the the choices people the
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choices the two girls have to make
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there's a lot of weight behind it and
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and the the film does a great job of
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building that weight building that
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tension at every step so when describe
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it as kind of this silly discussion of
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religion no it's it's a much deeper uh
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discussion of religion and there are
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Stakes behind it as well life and death
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Stakes behind it and so yeah it's it's a
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CLE it's a very clever movie yeah I uh I
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will give it a strong recommend because
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I happen to love horror that is
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psychological with Stakes yeah I mean
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I'm not going to say there's not gory
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things happening but it doesn't it's not
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this is isn't the substance you know
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it's not the focus is not the core the
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focus is ideas and that's the kind of
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horror that I prefer so I give this a
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strong recommend I'd say eight eight and
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a half at least yes and I'll I'll say
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this I did talk to one of the directors
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all that stuff the research is true
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about Monopoly you can look that up so
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um after you see the movie you'll you'll
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want to research Monopoly so strong
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recommend from me Allan what did you
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think yeah strong recommend I will say
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though the ending there's a horror Trope
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that happens at the ending which I won't
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mention but that kind of I kind of let
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me down uh it you know it it probably
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knocked a point a half a point off of it
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if we were doing uh gymnastics scores uh
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in terms of sticking the landing I guess
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you have to do it but it just seemed
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implausible yeah yeah I did like the
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first half better than the second half I
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think the second half is is not the
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payoff I was hoping for but
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it's still it's such a great setup and
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Hugh Grant is unhinged he's amazing
