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let's talk about a French film that I
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saw recently called meanwhile on Earth
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it is directed by Jeremy
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clapin it is the story of Elsa who is
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mourning the loss of her brother who was
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an astronaut there is a statue erected
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in his name and he is visited by beings
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from beings from another world that tell
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her if she brings them humans in
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tribute basically coercing people to
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come to a forest where something may be
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done to them something
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evil they will allow her to get her
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brother back so it's an odd deal she
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makes with these aliens that if she
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people that they do things with he will
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get to see her brother so it's about
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this how she deals with the guilt of do
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I do this or not I love my brother I
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want to see him but I have to give these
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people up I'll just say this it's uh uh
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it's also sprinkled with animation
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apparently the director Jeremy clapin uh
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has made animated movies so some of the
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film is shown in 2D animation very
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stylistic um I'll just say this this
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movie is very French very French in the
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sense that it's science fiction but not
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filled with lots of special effects
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you're told how things will work it's
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very surreal in it's uh the way it
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portrays the uh the Fantastical elements
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of the movie and just for me does not
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work I think the lead actress is very
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good in the film Megan Northam as
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Elsa but it's this fits in a category
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that you might uh call French
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[ __ ] it's it really does feel like
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it's so like this is how the French do
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sci-fi which is why you don't hear a lot
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of like great French sci-fi oh they I'll
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defend uh uh lenet Sage Fantastic Planet
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I think is great um this and it's a mini
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review this movie is short 90 minutes
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it's uh but it's it's really about the
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young woman's guilt of I have to find
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these people get these people trick them
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to go to this part of the forest where
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things but she she she picks up a h
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hitchhiker at one point and she just
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she's you can see the guilt I don't want
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to do it I don't want to do it I don't
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want this guy to get taken away she's
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running out of options because there's a
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time element she has to get all these
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people by a certain time um did not love
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this film it was ultimately
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boring uh in the end and I felt like you
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didn't really see the connection she had
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to her brother to feel the loss so I
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don't know maybe a five out of 10 for me
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but um really was hoping because I love
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low-budget sci-fi love it love it and
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this just does not deliver for me so I
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do not recommend it it's a a non
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reccommend from me um even with because
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I I like something that's told in a
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sci-fi mixed with animation did not work
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at all so it's a pass it's a pass can't
