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Oldboy with Alison Willmore

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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The Revenge-O-Matic

This movie isn't commenting on something in us, it is commenting on the way like the revenge-o-matic, which is like such a fucking sturdy sub-genre. The easiest way to set up a movie is this person did this thing to this other person and they got to cut through whoever it was. Right? Even though this movie does have some genuinely like thrilling sequences, he's kind of like perverting the revenge thriller to speak to if the stripped down version of this were happening in real life, you would find it upsetting. But if you put it on screen, it seems fun. So the only way to make it upsetting on screen is to make it the most upsetting series

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