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Alan tell me about the room next door
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the room next door is the film by Pedro
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amadar I believe I just mispronounced
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that um it's a story starring uh
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starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne
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Moore they are best friends from long
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ago they worked at the same newspaper uh
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they have become somewhat a stranged
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after uh after B basically dating the
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same guy uh Tilda Swinton is a War
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reporter no is a yeah is a war reporter
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while Julian Moore is more about
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lifestyle type stuff um but they at this
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late age they come back together as
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friends uh because uh Tilda who plays
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Martha Martha has some news uh she has
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cervical cancer and she is dying uh and
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and the reason she needs to bring uh
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ingred here played by Julian more is
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that uh Martha wants to commit suicide
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she wants to euthanize herself uh and so
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what they've decided to do uh what she's
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begging uh ingred to do is to go to uh
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her Mountain Home her Mountain Home and
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uh just hang out there for a couple days
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and one night without her knowing um uh
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Martha is going to take the the life
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ending medication and uh and ingred will
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wake up one day and find her dead uh so
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this is a youth in Asia movie um and
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it's it's important that uh that Martha
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that ingred be there because uh Martha
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wants ingred to stay where
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Chris in the room next door oh no hence
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the title why didn't I figure that out
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yeah and so this uh this movie is really
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about Youth and age about two friends
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and the the the struggle and the all the
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issues dealing around the subject um
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this is very interesting Pedro amadar I
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funny story I went to the uh Academy
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museum with my daughter there is a
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exhibit there uh of Pedro amadar we walk
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up and there's a giant screen of
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panelope Cruz's left breast up there and
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um this is kind of my knowledge of Alma
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dovar this is really the first movie I
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sat down and watched um his he brings a
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very distinct style to the story uh the
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the play the the movie uh the dialogue
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it plays out like as if it were a play
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where it just feels like that the um
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that the actors are more about the
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delivery of lines than they are about
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acting uh so the dialogue just feels
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very weird it it feels like a soap opera
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uh there's a mo JN tuturo is in it and
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there's a whole discussion that of you
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know because he's this uh really radical
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environmentalist and I think the reason
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that him and Martha broke up is she
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wanted children and he can he couldn't
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handle the fact that someone would want
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to bring children into the world knowing
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that uh it's going to uh waste away
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because of climate change uh the other
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thing is the the colors are very bright
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almost like 60s bright you know the The
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Rock Hudson Doris Day type color palette
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uh very brilliant colors and also
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speaking of the 60s theme it has this
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sweeping uh orchestral soundtrack behind
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it which which I found odd because this
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is a two Pander movie um a lot of the
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time it's just the two actors walking
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through the home uh a wide shot and then
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you have this sweeping soundtrack
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playing behind them and it just tonally
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felt weird and and so I my my criticism
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of the film is this it's uh subject
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matter aside this is feels like an art
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film and it feels like if I'm really to
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if you're really into art films and you
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want to uh be that pretentious art
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critic you'll probably love the movie
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um that that said I can give it a bare
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recommendation I found that the the
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subject matter fascinating to the point
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where I just kind of was interested to
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see how things would ultimately play out
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uh but I found myself often distracted
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by the art of this film uh which is kind
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of you know I it just felt a little too
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pretentious for me well I I really love
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Tilda Swinton how did it's more about
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these actresses performances right yeah
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know I would say that it feels like it's
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a foreign film that stars two American
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actors two two A-list American actors uh
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and that that's kind of how because of
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the foreign films I'm seeing I've seen
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the dialogue and the delivery it feels
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like that and so um you know it it works
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for foreign films I don't know that it
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works with Julianne Moore until this
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Clinton so bear recommend recommend is
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there is there nudity no there isn't
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she's dying of cancer why would there be
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nudity I don't know okay yeah I mean
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would we went through that exhibit and
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there was a lot of nudity in that well a
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mo of our films do have a lot of nudity
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I mean he's a you know foreign director
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they're you know maybe less uptight
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expect that in foreign films yeah I'm
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sure you know his catalog better but is
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this is the first time he's working with
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two well-known uh I'll say English
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actors English speaking actors is is
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that kind of his first time doing this
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or has he done that before I'm not sure
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but um I've always found him interesting
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and worth seeing so I'll take your bare
