Lake Mungo: Unraveling the Ghostly Tapestry of an Australian Cinema Gem

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Welcome to A Dingo Ate my Movie , a podcast about the weird and

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wonderful Australian films from the 70s, 80s and beyond.

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I'm your host, pete, and today I'm joined by Tab and Micah from

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the Stiletto Banshees to talk about Lake Mungo from 2008.

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Good morning Tab and Micah.

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How are you guys?

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Speaker 1: We're good.

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Good morning, we're doing great .

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Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 3: No problem at all.

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It's good to have two people on instead of one.

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I usually have one.

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Speaker 1: It's good having two.

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I always like doing this show with Tab.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you kind of lean on her for support.

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That's why I like doing any show with Tab Same, no pressure.

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Today we're going to have a chat about lake mungo from 2008.

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The movie is.

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I'll just do a quick synopsis here.

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16 year old alice palmer drowns while swimming in a local dam.

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When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death

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returned, her grieving family buries her.

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The family then experiences strange and inexplicable events

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centered in and around their home.

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Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a

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psychic and parapsychologist.

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It's too early in the morning to read all this stuff.

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Ray Kemeny, Is it Kemeny Kemeny ?

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Ray discovers that Alice led a secret double life.

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Clues lead the family to Lake Mungo, where Alice's secret past

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emerges.

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Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story.

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That was written by one of the producers.

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I got that off IMDb Pro.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay cool, it's pretty accurate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty close.

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing it's I'd argue she lived a

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triple life, let alone a double life.

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There was a lot going on.

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Speaker 3: A lot going on in her life.

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Yeah, it was directed by Joel Anderson and written by Joel

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Anderson, produced by George Neville and Dave Rapsy.

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The cast is Talia Zaka plays Alice Palmer, david Pledger,

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russell Palmer, rosie Trainor plays June Palmer, martin Sharp,

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her brother, matthew Palmer, and Steve Jodrell plays Ray

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Kemney.

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It had a budget of $1.4 million .

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It looks like it was only in theatres for like a week.

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I had a look at Box Office Pro, or whatever it's called, box

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Office Mojo, and I only saw the dates of 30th of July to 2nd of

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August 2009.

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It took $8.

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So it's really one of those movies that's quite like hasn't

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been seen all that much.

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I think it's picked up a second life recently.

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We'll go into that a bit later but it was only in the theatres

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for a short time.

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Speaker 1: It's much better watched on a TV anyway, I think

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it makes more sense watching on a tv for sure, and it warrants

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re-watches because it there's certain twists and turns that

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when you watch it the second time it it just plays

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differently it does absolutely yeah well, and I wonder if that

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theatrical release was like the after dark film festival,

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because I was gonna ask like how did is?

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Did they have a system for how they did they pick up movies

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after the fact or did they distribute them and and control

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all of that?

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Speaker 4: maybe they only did like a month, maybe they only

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did well yeah, typically, um I I think with the other after dark

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films, they would pick the movies after they had been

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finished and then they would screen them over a weekend,

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which it looks like.

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Speaker 1: that's kind of what happened here, Um but they

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didn't do a theatrical run, or yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, usually they would go right to DVD.

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Speaker 3: And, like I said, this is a much better watched on

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a TV than right.

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I couldn't imagine watching this.

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When I was watching it, I was like I couldn't imagine watching

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this on a cinema screen.

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Speaker 1: There's too much nuance and you've got to like

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know where to put your eye.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Plus just the whole way it's made is made

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for TV really.

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Speaker 1: Well, it feels like a Dateline episode kind of, or

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like a crime documentary.

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Speaker 3: I was saying, yeah, well, you put in that parlance

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for you guys, For us.

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I said to May when we were first watching it.

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I was like, oh, this is just like watching an ABC documentary

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or something like that.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Ratings quite good for the movie IMDb 6.3 out of 10.

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Rotten Tomatoes for the reviewer score was 96%, the

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audience score 62% and Letterboxd it's a.

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3.4 out of 5 is the average, so it's a pretty well-rated movie.

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I'll go into it later, but I actually enjoyed it more the

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second time when I watched it.

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So where did I watch this one?

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I watched.

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This is really tough if you're in Australia, if you don't have

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Broly, then it seems to be the only place that has it on

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streaming at the moment.

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There's a second site standard edition Blu-ray still available

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you can buy.

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There was a deluxe edition or a two-disc edition, but that's

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like out of print, sold out, same.

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There was a DVD available and that's apparently out of print

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as well.

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So it's one of those.

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How did you guys watch it?

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Speaker 1: uh, I bought mine on itunes okay so it's a different

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regionally probably.

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So in the us it's on itunes for like eight bucks.

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Speaker 3: Um, I watched it there okay, yeah, I think it's

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probably about this.

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It's probably available on it here too.

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To be honest, you have to buy it, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's also available on Prime with ads, which is a

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terrible way to watch it.

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Speaker 1: You have to watch it.

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It's a terrible way to watch anything.

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Speaker 3: Well, true, but definitely something like this I

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really hate the way all these streaming services are suddenly.

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It reminds me of like pay TV.

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When we first got pay TV years and years ago I'm sure the

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experience is the same for you the big selling point of pay tv

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was no ads.

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You pay money and you get no ads, and then eventually they

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started sinking ads in and now it's just like watching normal

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tv.

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Speaker 1: So yeah it's going to become like cable, like

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streaming is going to be just it's going to be like come full

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circle, yeah it's just yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: that's why I buy media, that's my personal.

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I think we're all on the same boat, right?

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Yeah, yeah, I try to buy physical when I can, but anyway,

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I wasn't able to find a lot of trivia for this film, a lot of

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you know bits and bobs.

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The main thing I found out was there's no actual script written

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for this movie.

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They had like a you know where everything wanted to go and the

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story, but there was no dialogue for the actors.

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They were basically given plot points to hit and then they were

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interviewed, though by the director.

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I think, um, yeah that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: That seems to be common for like the faux

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documentary Like I think of, like Spinal Tap or I think the

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Last Broadcast is done that way too.

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It just feels very natural because it's improv.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it works really well for this.

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So the other bits I picked up.

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Jordan Peele stated in a podcast that he thought Lake

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Mungo was one of the most frightening movies he'd seen.

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Speaker 4: That's high praise, it is high praise, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because, like I said, I'll go

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into it, but I didn't find it that scary.

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Speaker 1: But there's a difference between scary and

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unsettling, Right, you might be talking about the ending,

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because it's kind of a slow burn that hinges on this one stinger

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, maybe two stingers at the end, and those are so effective that

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I can see someone coming out of it being like that thing was

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terrifying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.

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Lake Mungo itself is about 1 kilometres west of Sydney

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and about 700 kilometres north of Melbourne, so it's a dry lake

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, but I's I think we were talking about this before we

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started Tab.

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It's home to the earliest human remains found in Australia and

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possibly the world, so they found remains at this site that

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are estimated to be more than 40 years old.

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It's also one of the most one of the richest fossil footprint

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sites ever found, which is interesting.

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That's not like a find.

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I couldn't find much else about this film.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot.

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I mean, I kind of looked for just production information and

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that was about what I could find as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting and, like the

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director, Joel Anderson, he's made nothing since.

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Yeah, Micah and I were talking about that earlier.

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That's made nothing since.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, micah and I were talking about that earlier.

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That's crazy to me, yeah.

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Speaker 3: That's what I think makes it one of those sort of

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weird movies, in a way, like you've got it made by somebody

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Almost like it's real, yeah, yeah.

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But I don't think he's done anything else, and even some of

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the actors I don't think have done a lot.

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Speaker 1: Most of them when I looked at them in imdb, most of

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them have done, you know, usual tv stuff and things like that.

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I think usually for like genre stuff there's always like a

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handful of those every decade, I feel like where, like a

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director makes one, maybe two movies and then they just go on

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with their life, they do something else, or whatever.

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The 2000s had quite a few of those of like had a big hit and

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then they just go on with their life, they do something else, or

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whatever.

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The 2000s had quite a few of those of like had a big hit and

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then just kind of went away, isn't that?

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Speaker 3: funny.

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It's interesting how these things happen.

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It's like they have one great idea and they just sort of get

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that out there into the world and then they're, I don't know,

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satisfied with that.

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Maybe Interested to hear your first thoughts on the movie.

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Speaker 4: So I watched this several years ago after a couple

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of people had recommended it as a found footage film.

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I I might like um I.

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I was pretty well known on uh test pattern for for not really

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enjoying found footage films, so a lot of people would try to

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recommend things and this one sounded interesting and I really

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enjoyed it, probably because it feels more like a true crime

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style documentary than something like paranormal activity and I

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think for me it's just much more effective than Blair Witch or

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paranormal activity, particularly when we get to the

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jump scare kind of towards the end of the film.

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And I felt like, even though the film has some ambiguous

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aspects, the ending felt more satisfying than something like

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blair witch or paranormal activity for me.

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I know there's plenty of fans of both of those movies and and

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um.

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That makes sense, but yeah, I would agree.

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Speaker 1: As a fan of like blair witch, I'd say that the

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ending is both ambiguous and lands.

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Enough that you're like I I kind of know what happened and

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the parts that I don't don't really matter.

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It's fun to speculate right right, whereas blair witch is

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like I'm not even sure.

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Speaker 4: I think I know what happened, but that's that's it

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maybe yeah maybe I know what happened but yeah, I thought I

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thought joel Joel Anderson struck a really good balance

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between leaving some things ambiguous and then sort of

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hitting you with that.

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Oh, she really was there as a ghost the whole time, and I

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think they did a really great job with the pictures and the

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whole movie footage as far as making the Palmers feel like a

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real family.

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It's kind of a tricky thing in these kind of movies and

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everything felt really genuine they play it very believably too

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Yes, very much fantastic yeah, and obviously they had, uh,

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younger pictures of the actress that plays um, that plays alice,

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so that lended towards making it feel real as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had the grandparents involved and stuff

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like that so you really got that extended family sort of feel

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right, right, like you would in like a true crime documentary

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yeah, you see how it affected everybody and even like

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neighbors and co-workers and and her boyfriend and friend the

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world building is really good yeah yeah it really is.

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It really is.

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Speaker 4: It's great.

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And then something that struck me both times that I watched the

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movie was the nighttime time-lapse photography.

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The clarity of the stars and the way they moved across the

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sky during the time-lapse felt really eerie and surreal.

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So I think that sort of in a weird way, lends to the creepy

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feeling overall in the movie.

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Speaker 3: What did you think micah?

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Speaker 1: uh, well, I hadn't seen this one.

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Um, I had kind of heard of it, probably back when it came out,

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as like another one of the after dark movies.

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For some reason my memory of those was like I I kind of wrote

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them off almost I didn't understand really what it was.

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I thought it was kind of like a masters of horror tales from

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the crypt, like they were going to be one hour episodic kind of

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things.

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I didn't realize they were real movies until much later, and

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then I started watching some of them and they're all actually

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pretty good.

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But Tab had mentioned it a couple of times here and there

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that like oh, this is one of the found footage movies that I

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really like.

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So when you brought it up I was excited to see it and I was

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blown away.

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I'm surprised I hadn't gotten around to it sooner.

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It's fair to put it in the found footage category.

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I'd argue that there's kind of two kinds of found footage

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movies.

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There's faux documentaries, which this is more like, and

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then there's like paranormal activity, found footage movies

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and Blair Witch kind of straddles that line and is sort

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of both, but it's I found footage tends to work the best

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info documentary, I think it's the most believable and this

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movie is just such a roller coaster man Like it.

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It's both a slow burn and a roller coaster.

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It's kind of interesting in that way.

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There's a bunch of twists and turns that you don't see coming

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and then it it all kind of crescendos with that that

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stinger at the end and it it gets me every damn time.

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It got me the second time, both little stingers.

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There's kind of technically two .

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They both got me each time I was like son of a bitch.

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I knew it was coming and it still got me.

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So that's effective.

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Speaker 3: Just by the way, we can spoil it here.

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I always do spoil like, if you want to spoil stuff.

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Speaker 1: I figured we would a little bit later, maybe when we

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got to it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but feel free to spoil.

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If people are listening to this , they really should watch it

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first.

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Speaker 1: Totally, totally.

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But yeah, the mood, mood of it, like it, it sets a tone and so

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the the unsettling aspect of it really makes that stinger hit,

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because you're just waiting for something to happen and then

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when it does it's, it's very satisfying, yeah yeah, it's like

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the one jump scare in the whole movie and it's a good one, and

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I myself.

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Speaker 3: This is kind of what ruined it for me a little bit

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the first time through, because I went into this one completely

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cold.

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I had no idea.

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I knew of the movie, I knew it had a reputation, et cetera.

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And because of the reputation I was like, oh, is this going to

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be?

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Like you know how movies like Paranormal Activity they always

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have jump scares and things like that all the time and activity,

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they always have jump scares and things like that all the

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time.

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And I was thinking you know this was going to happen.

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And I think I was always kind of waiting for something.

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And uh, and when you know, the second time, because I kind of

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knew what was going to happen, I was like, okay, I could just

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sit back and kind of enjoy it a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: So yeah the second time around too, like you get to

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like.

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So they set up the pictures right that the brother is taking

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and how she's allegedly showing up in them, um, but if you look

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at them the first time around again, you can see all the

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moments that are revealed later of where she's actually in the

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pictures, like she is.

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Some of those are more obvious than others, like the backyard

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one.

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It's so obvious that she is sitting on that bench, but the

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masterful filmmaking directs your eye so well to that other

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spot that you never even notice it.

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Speaker 4: Uh, it's, it's so effective be interested to know

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if anyone actually ever noticed it the first time around yeah,

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yeah, maybe some be some very astute viewers yeah maybe, maybe

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but it's well hidden, I think yeah, the only thing I noticed

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was that I could see a guy sitting in her room and I

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thought it was going to end up being the dad right um and and,

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like he was just hanging out in there because he missed her or

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something.

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Speaker 3: But for me.

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I think this movie is a movie that's probably going to divide

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a lot of people because you would have some viewers will

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find the documentary style probably boring and won't find

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anything exciting and they'll be expecting something really

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scary because it does have a bit of a reputation.

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Yeah Right, others, I guess, will be really taken in and

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absorbed by the story that's there.

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While I didn't find it particularly scary inverted

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commas I found it sometimes really profoundly sad and creepy

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as well.

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So there's some very disturbing kind of you know, little bits

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of this movie, things that are uncovered that are kind of very

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surprising and sort of.

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They're not necessarily scary or frightening things, but they

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just really sort of knock you for six sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: It feels a lot like and it's probably an influence

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on this movie.

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It feels like Twin Peaks a lot and there's little homages that

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I feel like are direct homages.

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I mean Alice Palmer, yeah, like twin peaks a lot, and there's

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little homages that I feel like are direct homages.

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I mean alice palmer, yeah, um, you have the stuff with the like

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psychic that is sort of like the stuff with the therapist in

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twin peaks, and then just the, the backstory, the secret

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backstory about her affair with the neighbor and everything like

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she appeared to be this good girl that was innocent and

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actually had like a bit of darkness to her.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was very nobody expected yeah.

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Speaker 4: And there's also like Laura Palmer in twin peaks has

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a premonition that she'll die, so there's that element as well.

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Speaker 3: When we talk about the movie.

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I don't really I don't think this movie would benefit from

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just like running it down A to Z .

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But a few things I wanted to talk about was the style of the

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movie, the way they do the mockumentary, you know, and like

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how it kind of changes the way you look at the movie I think

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we've touched on it a couple of times Like it kind of brings you

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in.

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I think it brings you into the movie a lot more than if it was

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just shot like a normal movie.

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I was wondering actually, after I watched it the second time,

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how would this movie have been?

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What would it have been like if they'd made it as a movie movie

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but not a documentary style movie?

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Speaker 1: yeah, I think the the talking head element of it kind

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of makes it more engaging because it feels like they're

00:19:26
talking directly to you they're like like they're telling you a

00:19:29
story.

00:19:30
Speaker 3: They're pulling you into this and it feels intimate

00:19:33
yeah, it does actually yeah, yeah, and and I think it kind of

00:19:37
makes the, the supernatural parts of the movie a little bit

00:19:41
more plausible as well, um, in the in that way, because it's a

00:19:46
bit it's very implausible.

00:19:47
Well, it depends, right, if you believe in ghosts or not.

00:19:50
I think if you, I considered having a guest on I had a while

00:19:56
ago when we did the Babadook to do this movie and she's, you

00:20:03
know, into all this psychic stuff and ghosts and stuff like

00:20:07
that.

00:20:07
But I didn't want to get super bogged down in the conversation

00:20:12
about ghosts and things.

00:20:14
But yeah, it was interesting the way I thought that you know,

00:20:20
just talking about the movie in general, again when it all

00:20:22
wrapped up I really thought when it wrapped up that it wrapped

00:20:25
up well for the family, but I wasn't sure it wrapped up very

00:20:28
well for alice if she's a indeed a ghost, like they effectively

00:20:32
left her behind right right right they do sort of imply that

00:20:39
they felt like she had moved on a little bit, like that she got

00:20:42
closure, that they kind of imply that.

00:20:45
Speaker 4: But it does like she's still in the picture, yeah

00:20:47
, in the background in the house when they're all standing at

00:20:50
the front before they leave well , maybe she was saying goodbye

00:20:53
maybe there's that um, that part where, like, her mom kind of

00:20:58
goes back to the psychic to have one last consultation.

00:21:01
Yeah, yeah and when you line it up with her consultation with

00:21:05
him, it's almost like time has sort of fluid and she's

00:21:09
experiencing what her mom did, but before and she says my mom

00:21:14
can't see me, you know the movie does that kind of repeatedly

00:21:17
throughout where like just

00:21:18
Speaker 1: time is this like it bleeds, like layers of time kind

00:21:23
of bleed over into each other.

00:21:24
And I not to get too woo-woo or whatever, but like I like that

00:21:28
idea of spirituality.

00:21:29
I like that, like what we perceive as ghosts is just a

00:21:32
separate plane that if you go to the right area where it's maybe

00:21:37
sensitive or there's a history of of spiritual activity or

00:21:40
spiritual significance, that's kind of those layers can get

00:21:44
blended every once in a while and that's.

00:21:46
It feels like that happens repeatedly, like she gets the

00:21:50
premonitions of her death through dreams and then other

00:21:54
experiences of just her being a ghost she experiences through

00:21:58
dreams before she's even dead.

00:22:00
Um, it's.

00:22:01
It's such a clever thing that when you go back and watch it

00:22:04
again, like you, you see all those little like moments that

00:22:07
sync up yeah well, she sees her own dead body.

00:22:11
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, and that's, that's the big jumper

00:22:15
that's the stinger at the end.

00:22:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like running, moving at her, and then

00:22:19
there's that pause.

00:22:21
But the second stinger is when she runs away from it, that's

00:22:24
whenever, like, the pause stops and then she runs from the

00:22:27
figure.

00:22:27
I love the detail that, like they I think it's the brother or

00:22:31
maybe the dad is saying that they don't think that she saw

00:22:35
herself or that she recognized herself, that she just saw a

00:22:38
ghost and it freaked her out.

00:22:40
Speaker 3: What do you think?

00:22:41
The significance of her burying all her belongings, though,

00:22:44
were?

00:22:46
Speaker 1: Tab had more of an idea about this than I did.

00:22:49
I was a little unsure.

00:22:49
The phone is more just like I got to get rid of this footage.

00:22:52
Yeah, that's obvious.

00:22:54
Speaker 4: I knew that there was some cultural significance for

00:22:57
Aboriginal people there so I wanted to look it up.

00:23:00
I think it is just tied to the fact that they've found possibly

00:23:04
the earliest remains and they specifically the thing that I

00:23:08
read specifically said ritual burial.

00:23:10
It's like the first evidence of ritual burial probably in the

00:23:13
world, and so Aboriginal people kind of see it, as you know, the

00:23:20
cradle of life for them, almost Like that's where life

00:23:23
originated, because that's where the earliest people were, and

00:23:27
so that has a lot of really, really strong significance for

00:23:32
them.

00:23:32
I thought maybe the her bearing her things was more related to

00:23:36
that, that there was, there had been people buried there, maybe

00:23:40
she was symbolically burying herself maybe, maybe she was

00:23:44
trying to put herself to rest and maybe she didn't even know,

00:23:47
like she didn't know, that that was her.

00:23:49
Speaker 1: She may have just been compelled to bury this

00:23:52
stuff as like subconsciously, subconsciously understanding

00:23:57
that that's what happened and that, like she needs to put this

00:23:59
to rest, however she can.

00:24:01
Speaker 3: It's an interesting scene, however she can.

00:24:06
It's interesting scene and it's very interesting that I don't

00:24:07
know how.

00:24:08
What was the?

00:24:08
I'm trying to look at the time period between when she died and

00:24:10
when the family went to lake mungo and uncovered the her

00:24:13
belonging it was at least a year .

00:24:15
It was at least a year, right, I was like, yeah, I didn't know,

00:24:17
why, find that in the meantime she must have dug like that,

00:24:21
quite deeply into the green yeah , and I'm not sure how that it

00:24:25
looks, like it's kind of a park, basically, like a public park

00:24:28
yeah, it is, yeah, it's a national park how far out were

00:24:32
they?

00:24:32
Speaker 1: you know like where, where it just seems like

00:24:35
wasteland to me.

00:24:36
Speaker 3: Like I, I can't tell really where you park and how

00:24:39
far out they walked, so it may have been like a little ways out

00:24:42
from I had a look at the I guess official website of the

00:24:47
area, like the national parks website, and there's like, if

00:24:50
they say that it's like wherever you're staying, whether you're

00:24:52
camping or whether you're staying they've got some like

00:24:56
accommodations there.

00:24:57
It's too basically too far to walk to, but they're saying cars

00:25:01
and buses go there all the time , sort of things.

00:25:03
So yeah, I don't know, they were obviously on a school excursion

00:25:04
, whether they're saying cars and buses go there all the time,

00:25:05
sort of thing.

00:25:05
So yeah, I don't know, they were obviously on a school

00:25:07
excursion, whether they were camping or whether they were

00:25:09
staying somewhere else, I'm not sure.

00:25:10
It was a very creepy part of the movie, but it's interesting

00:25:13
because it's really the only part of the movie that, and when

00:25:18
the parents go out there, that they're in Lake Mungo, which is

00:25:22
the name of the movie.

00:25:23
But you know, like you said earlier, Tab, it's a significant

00:25:26
event, which is why they named the movie that.

00:25:29
The thing that really got me about this movie, especially

00:25:35
when I read a bit about it afterwards, is like there's so

00:25:37
many theories on what happened and how she died, Like there's

00:25:41
theories online that the brother killed her, murdered her.

00:25:45
Speaker 1: On my first go-through, I I was like sus of

00:25:47
him.

00:25:47
I was a little bit suspicious of him.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was directed to play it like that,

00:25:52
Because some people you know, some of the theories I saw were

00:25:55
like, if you look at the film and look at times that he was

00:25:58
filming her, that there wasn't a great relationship.

00:26:03
She was always seen to be angry with him.

00:26:05
But then there's other videos of him where he's videoed her

00:26:08
and she seems quite happy also the bruises on him.

00:26:12
Speaker 1: The bruises on him don't don't really fit.

00:26:14
That's the one on my second go-round.

00:26:15
I was like that doesn't that doesn't come back that doesn't

00:26:19
make sense, necessarily, unless she is beating him up like she

00:26:24
is mad at him for something.

00:26:26
So that leads me to think that maybe he had some involvement.

00:26:29
Also, like the faking, the footage and everything felt a

00:26:33
little fishy to me, like his reason for it of like I just

00:26:37
wanted them to believe that she was coming back or whatever.

00:26:41
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can really really go with that.

00:26:44
I'm assuming she just drowned.

00:26:46
I don't know if I can really really go with that.

00:26:46
I'm assuming she just drowned.

00:26:47
Speaker 4: I don't know yeah, I I wondered if maybe there was

00:26:50
some sort of supernatural thing that like caused her to drown,

00:26:55
like her own ghost pulled her down or something came back, oh,

00:26:58
maybe yeah, this is our fate.

00:27:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah I guess this is why the film is like I

00:27:05
was saying before has kind of picked up a bit of a second life

00:27:07
.

00:27:07
If you look at a lot of the I'll watch some youtube videos

00:27:12
around, you know, I watched a couple of reviews, I watched a

00:27:14
couple of people just talking about it and a lot of them are

00:27:16
just like how did she die?

00:27:18
Was it the brother, was it you know, whatever?

00:27:20
But I don't know.

00:27:22
For me, when I watch it I was like, just so, she just drowned,

00:27:25
something happened.

00:27:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, she got caught up in something or something

00:27:29
like that, so didn't look like a very deep lake, though they

00:27:33
sort of set up like well there's , he has a line about something,

00:27:36
about like her jacket or towel was on the beach, so that shows

00:27:40
that she never got out of the water, does it?

00:27:42
Does it show that she never got out of the water?

00:27:44
She just didn't grab her towel?

00:27:46
Like?

00:27:46
There's also the neighbor that could be involved because he was

00:27:49
a little nervous about the affair and the tape.

00:27:52
Maybe he did something.

00:27:53
Maybe he followed them out there.

00:27:55
Speaker 3: They bounced pretty quickly after she died, like

00:27:57
they moved um, I found that like one of the most shocking parts

00:28:01
of the film, actually, as oh, yeah, I.

00:28:04
I was like what the fuck is this ?

00:28:05
And yeah, I think that's where you really start.

00:28:09
I guess that's where, for me, the movie really started turning

00:28:12
and twisting Up.

00:28:14
Till then it was kind of a bit like just a ghost story.

00:28:17
And then, once you get to that point, you start having all

00:28:21
these other ideas and you start seeing that all is not what it

00:28:23
seemed.

00:28:23
Yeah, it unravels like an onion .

00:28:24
You start having all these other ideas and you start seeing

00:28:25
that all is not what it seemed.

00:28:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, it unravels like an onion.

00:28:26
It does.

00:28:27
It's got layers, yeah, but it's sort of the Twin Peaks thing, a

00:28:32
little bit of just like.

00:28:33
It appears to be this one thing and then the more you like,

00:28:36
Laura Palmer in the Twin Peaks appears to be this one type of

00:28:39
person.

00:28:40
And then the more you go on, the more you realize.

00:28:45
Speaker 4: Oh no.

00:28:45
And then, the more you go on, the more you realize oh no, she

00:28:47
had this whole other life, well, like the brother faking the

00:28:49
footage.

00:28:49
And then you find out the?

00:28:50
Speaker 3: um, the psychic had met with her before yeah before

00:28:53
she died yeah, I kind of with the psychic, I kind of was.

00:28:58
I guess he kind of did the right thing by not saying

00:29:02
anything, because I guess he wanted to understand what they

00:29:06
were trying to do and help them.

00:29:08
And I think if he brought in the fact that he'd already

00:29:11
spoken to her, it would have changed the dynamic quite a bit

00:29:15
he saved it until it was relevant yeah, I think so, yeah,

00:29:18
yeah, what did you think?

00:29:20
Do you think he did the right thing by telling them, by not

00:29:22
telling them?

00:29:24
Speaker 4: that's really complex because I think she he did say

00:29:27
she asked that he not share it with anyone, but then you know

00:29:33
she was dead and so I don't know how that?

00:29:36
Speaker 1: How far does respecting her wishes go?

00:29:38
Yeah?

00:29:40
Speaker 4: I guess there's always professional privilege as

00:29:41
well, right yeah, if he's ethical, he's probably not going

00:29:47
to share it really yeah, I, I would assume like he could kind

00:29:51
of hedge, hedge in the middle and say you know, she came to me

00:29:55
, but I can't share what she said.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll bring it up if it's relevant.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah yeah, those scenes were

00:30:02
very interesting.

00:30:02
Like you said, tab the the scene at the end when it's

00:30:05
almost like to me that scene played out almost like her and

00:30:11
her mother were having like the same conversation with the guy,

00:30:15
almost yeah.

00:30:17
Speaker 1: They were describing the same scene.

00:30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of heartbreaking yeah.

00:30:20
Yeah, the movie is super sad.

00:30:22
I actually found it more sad than anything else, just that

00:30:26
you know there was that loss of life, the family trying to deal

00:30:29
with it like it right.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: The treatment of and the way they view grief in this

00:30:33
movie is very real I think on first viewing I was, like the

00:30:37
mom's, a little unhinged, but on a second viewing, the part

00:30:40
about her like just walking the neighborhood and walking into

00:30:42
people's houses and being like I just wanted to see what someone

00:30:45
else's life was like, that is heartbreaking yeah, I thought

00:30:48
that too yeah, you know it's.

00:30:50
It's so sad and I I think with the, with the psychic not

00:30:55
bringing up the tapes that he had with her.

00:30:58
I think she needed.

00:30:59
They needed to have some supernatural experiences first,

00:31:02
because the supernatural experiences are the dreams that

00:31:05
she describes right she describes these experiences that

00:31:09
end up being what they experience with her ghost.

00:31:12
Um, so maybe he needed to be confronted with that of, just

00:31:15
like, wait, you said what she was doing, what now?

00:31:18
Or you felt like this was what here's.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: These tapes that you know align with that yeah, I did

00:31:24
like the piece about the neighbor creeping into the house

00:31:28
as well and and trying to to get hold of the tape.

00:31:32
And obviously the mother knew that she had like that hiding

00:31:35
spot for stuff.

00:31:37
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess she had a safe, yeah, yeah yeah so,

00:31:40
but obviously, yeah, it was.

00:31:43
Speaker 3: It's interesting because at first you're like, oh

00:31:44
, what's that movement?

00:31:45
Speaker 1: then you go oh, it's the neighbor and then on the

00:31:48
first viewing, I thought that I I thought there was something

00:31:50
off about that and I think I felt like I was seeing her over

00:31:54
there.

00:31:54
And then the movement in the hallway happened.

00:31:56
I was like, oh, that wasn't what I thought it was.

00:31:58
Speaker 3: And then clearly you can see that dude like crouched

00:32:01
down there yeah I don't know how the police couldn't find them,

00:32:05
though I mean very, it's very hard these days to disappear,

00:32:09
even even even back then, like that's, and it's only what 15

00:32:13
years ago or something it's based, or 20 years ago yeah very

00:32:17
hard to actually disappear like that and especially the whole

00:32:20
family you know yeah, yeah, they got to enroll in school

00:32:23
somewhere exactly.

00:32:26
I think I would have been more than, like the father said uh,

00:32:28
alice's father said, oh, I'd throttle him if I saw him.

00:32:32
I think I'd do more than throttle him, but but, um, yeah,

00:32:36
interesting, that whole piece is interesting.

00:32:38
I'm like she obviously babysat for them and I don't know how

00:32:43
she got involved.

00:32:44
Or was she involved because she wanted to be, or was she

00:32:48
involved because she was coerced for some reason, or he maybe,

00:32:52
yeah, had groomed her probably, yeah she was still in high

00:32:57
school, I think, when she died right I don't know, that's.

00:32:59
To me it's probably probably the most shocking part of the film.

00:33:03
Yeah.

00:33:04
Speaker 4: You expect a ghost.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: Like when the ghost happens like you expect that you

00:33:08
don't expect this kind of turn.

00:33:11
Speaker 3: No, when she started watching, the mother started

00:33:12
watching the video and you start seeing the video.

00:33:14
I'm like, oh okay, what ghostly thing is going to happen here?

00:33:16
It's like that's not a ghost and it was.

00:33:19
Yeah, it was really.

00:33:20
That's a creep, yeah, really creepy and like the mother's

00:33:25
involved as well, like both of them.

00:33:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like this three-way.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: And yeah, so she definitely did have that other

00:33:33
life.

00:33:33
I was going to say something about the music in the film, but

00:33:37
the music I think is really kind of sparse but really well

00:33:41
done for this film I think it's quite.

00:33:43
It is kind of like that documentary style in some places

00:33:47
that you would hear in some of these documentaries sort of

00:33:49
shows.

00:33:50
So they've done a good job there.

00:33:51
There's nothing you know major to stand out.

00:33:54
I'm always disappointed when I don't have anything really

00:33:56
majorly on the music, because I love talking about the music.

00:33:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't really guide your emotions or

00:34:01
anything Like.

00:34:05
It sort of sets a tone of unease or sadness or like kind

00:34:08
of melancholy.

00:34:08
But it's not too much, it's very subtle.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: It's very much used, as it would be used in one of

00:34:15
those documentaries really, because there's lots of the

00:34:19
movie where there's no background music at all.

00:34:22
Speaker 1: There's times that feel to me like Wernerzog's

00:34:26
documentaries.

00:34:26
They kind of feel like parts of grizzly man or into the abyss a

00:34:30
little bit, where it's like just somber and like intimate

00:34:35
and honest kind of it's hard, maybe, to kind of enjoy, if you

00:34:40
know what I mean.

00:34:41
Speaker 3: It's like you can enjoy it, like you can look at

00:34:44
it and go.

00:34:44
That was a really good movie, but it's hard to kind of.

00:34:47
I always felt like when I was watching it there was always,

00:34:49
especially the second time, it kind of felt just like a heavy

00:34:53
weight around you because there's no, it doesn't really

00:34:57
there's no real happy ending.

00:34:59
Speaker 1: No, there's no levity .

00:35:00
No, there's no levity.

00:35:01
Speaker 3: There's nothing really.

00:35:02
No, there's no liberty.

00:35:03
There's nothing really.

00:35:03
Speaker 1: But that's how true crime documentaries feel yeah.

00:35:06
Yeah, they don't really have a lot of.

00:35:08
The ending is never satisfying and there's not a lot of humor

00:35:13
throughout.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: Right, and I do think they did a good job of making

00:35:16
the family really feel disconnected from each other.

00:35:18
Yeah, like even in that last picture they took, none of them

00:35:22
are really smiling and they're all kind of standing separate.

00:35:30
Speaker 3: It destroyed their life.

00:35:31
Yeah, yeah, it did.

00:35:31
It's interesting how they don't manage the grief too, like the

00:35:33
father just got stuck into work and distraction, distraction,

00:35:35
distraction.

00:35:35
The mom sort of just went off a little bit and kind of dealt

00:35:41
with it her own way and the son faked evidence did I get a

00:35:46
feeling in this movie when so there was a scene where they're

00:35:50
talking to the mother and her mother, and to me there was a

00:35:56
sense there's some sort of personality disorder that's been

00:36:00
passed down through the generations yeah, the

00:36:03
grandmother is like.

00:36:04
Speaker 1: I never gave all of myself to june and I assume that

00:36:08
she never gave all of herself to alice like they.

00:36:11
They withheld love maybe yeah, like empathy affection, yeah,

00:36:16
affection, something was withheld, yeah, there's.

00:36:19
There's a some sort of personality disorder going on

00:36:23
and that could be why alice kind of sought comfort and affection

00:36:27
elsewhere.

00:36:27
Maybe she did kind of, uh, not organize the the affair with the

00:36:34
neighbor, but leaned into it, seek it out.

00:36:37
Yeah, because I mean, if you compare it to laura in twin

00:36:40
peaks, she 100 did like she% sought this exciting, dangerous

00:36:47
life.

00:36:48
Maybe Alice was kind of doing that because of she wasn't happy

00:36:52
at home, she didn't feel seen at home.

00:36:54
Speaker 4: There is footage at that party where she's talking

00:36:56
to the neighbor and is sort of standing in a more flirtatious

00:37:01
way talking to him.

00:37:04
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know and that we don't know where

00:37:07
that falls in.

00:37:08
Has the affair happened yet?

00:37:10
Is it about to?

00:37:10
We're not really told that part , but whether it's before or

00:37:14
after.

00:37:14
Yeah, yeah but her casualness with him doesn't feel like it's

00:37:18
one of the other young girls talking to, like an elder.

00:37:22
Speaker 3: It seems like two adults talking to each other,

00:37:25
yeah, yeah yeah, I thought the inclusion of all her school

00:37:29
friends from time to time in this was really good, really

00:37:34
well done, obviously in the same style of the documentary, but

00:37:37
having some of her good friends sort of speaking up and then

00:37:40
later on saying how surprised they were that they didn't

00:37:44
realize she had this other life and was doing all this other

00:37:47
stuff.

00:37:48
Speaker 1: Not only did, what is it they say?

00:37:49
They basically say, like not only did she have secrets, but

00:37:54
she didn't even let on that she had secrets.

00:37:56
Like there's not even like anything to think, oh, maybe

00:38:00
she's keeping something from us.

00:38:01
Like that wasn't even the case, like they never even assumed

00:38:05
that she would do something like that.

00:38:07
Speaker 3: I think she said something like she even kept her

00:38:09
secret secret, or something like that.

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:38:11
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:38:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

00:38:12
Speaker 4: I did want to ask is it really common for kids going

00:38:16
to school to have school uniforms?

00:38:20
Do you like?

00:38:21
Speaker 3: all the schools have school uniforms.

00:38:22
They all have school uniforms, yeah.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: Is that what those kind of bluish, the checkered

00:38:27
sort of?

00:38:28
Yeah?

00:38:28
Speaker 3: That's a classic school uniform.

00:38:30
Yeah, okay, summer school uniform, you can tell, but yeah,

00:38:36
it's.

00:38:36
There's.

00:38:37
All schools in Australia have school uniform.

00:38:40
Speaker 4: Oh, wow, okay, that's interesting I don't know.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: It makes it more equal, yeah.

00:38:45
Speaker 4: Oh, wow, okay.

00:38:45
Speaker 3: That's interesting, I don't know it makes it more

00:38:46
equal.

00:38:47
You don't have kids that are really well off sort of

00:38:49
flaunting their great clothes over kids that aren't so well

00:38:53
off, sort of thing.

00:38:54
It's always a big thing.

00:38:55
Every time you get to near the end of school holidays in

00:38:59
December, about to go into the new school year, you start

00:39:01
seeing all the ads on TV.

00:39:01
Oh, I bet Things like that.

00:39:02
And then your school year you start seeing all the ads on TV.

00:39:03
Speaker 4: Oh, I bet.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: Things like that.

00:39:04
And then you're always out buying school uniform and

00:39:07
there's always like a I remember doing it with my daughter you

00:39:11
go up to the school before school, like you know, a few

00:39:14
weeks before school goes back and they've got like a shop sort

00:39:17
of set up and you go in and you buy the summer uniform and you

00:39:21
buy the sports uniform and all the other stuff, yeah, yeah, and

00:39:29
you buy the sports uniform and all the other stuff, yeah, yeah,

00:39:31
there's obviously schools here that have school uniforms but

00:39:33
it's I think it's a lot less common right um, it's usually

00:39:34
like catholic school yeah, or charter school or some sort of

00:39:38
private school, but public school tends not to have them.

00:39:43
Speaker 4: Um.

00:39:43
I think my, my friend's son went to a public school where

00:39:48
they had like a dress code, um, but it wasn't necessarily a like

00:39:53
the same uniform for everybody some are more rigid than others

00:39:56
yeah, as far as the dress codes go, we had one.

00:39:58
I think every school has like a version of one yeah, this one

00:40:01
was pretty strict because they had to wear like khaki pants and

00:40:05
and a blue polo shirt or something yeah, so you guys

00:40:10
obviously didn't wear school uniforms no no, no we could kind

00:40:15
of wear well they.

00:40:17
They had a dress code, obviously, but we were allowed

00:40:20
to wear pretty much what we wanted, as long as it wasn't

00:40:22
offensive and it didn't crop tops yeah, yeah shoulders.

00:40:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, short shorts had to be a certain length yeah,

00:40:32
I think we touched on before, but but how do you think this

00:40:35
film sort of compares with movies like you know, paranormal

00:40:39
activity, maybe even the babadook talking about not so

00:40:43
not really found footage, but kind of like those ghostly sort

00:40:46
of films?

00:40:47
Speaker 1: I mean I mentioned before like I think the faux

00:40:49
documentary format is more effective than the, the

00:40:53
traditional found footage like shaky cam uh version.

00:40:57
So I'd say it's.

00:40:58
It's more effective than um, than paranormal activity.

00:41:02
In that way it's tricky because like Blair Witch kind of

00:41:05
straddles that line of the of the two types and does it pretty

00:41:08
well.

00:41:09
I think it definitely exceeds paranormal activity.

00:41:11
I think it it makes the characters so much more likable

00:41:14
and the tension, the tension they try for in paranormal

00:41:17
activity, this succeeds on with much less effort yeah.

00:41:22
I agree same with the stinger at the end, because the stinger on

00:41:26
paranormal activity is so elaborate and so like and it

00:41:29
feels really forced.

00:41:30
Speaker 3: Yes, this felt very organic and, uh, because of that

00:41:35
build-up like it really punches hard yeah, I think paranormal

00:41:39
activity and films like that are pretty much just there to get

00:41:42
crowds in and make them jump.

00:41:44
Yeah, I've gone off jump scares quite a bit over the years.

00:41:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, Especially the musical stinger that always

00:41:52
feels like cheating almost.

00:41:54
Yeah, yeah yeah, but I think when you talked about comparing

00:41:59
it to the Babadook, I think this feels so much more about the

00:42:05
family's grieving process and less about the scares.

00:42:08
And I love the babadook, but, um, that feels much more like a

00:42:12
traditional scary movie than this.

00:42:13
This.

00:42:14
This has creepy, unsettling moments, but it's more about,

00:42:17
like, unraveling the mystery yeah, that's true.

00:42:21
Speaker 1: They are both dealing with grief to a degree, though

00:42:23
that's true, yeah which is interesting and in that way they

00:42:26
are similar because they are unflattering, unflinching yeah

00:42:30
it comes to grief, um, and it shows the different ways that it

00:42:33
, that it manifests and I'd say baba duke, is like a heightened

00:42:37
version of of how grief can can take over, but yeah, very

00:42:42
similar any uh.

00:42:44
Speaker 4: Final thoughts on the film I mean I would definitely

00:42:46
recommend this movie.

00:42:48
I think it's I don't know.

00:42:50
I think it feels really unique as far as being a mockumentary

00:42:54
or found footage film, but it also feels unique being a

00:42:57
supernatural film, it's.

00:42:59
It's not really like anything.

00:43:01
You would think it's not you know, six cents and and that

00:43:05
kind of thing is what comes to mind when you talk about a ghost

00:43:07
movie, and it's nothing like that.

00:43:09
Um, it is a slow burn, so you have to be patient with it, but

00:43:13
I think it excels at creating a creepy, unsettling feeling in

00:43:17
the way that the best like written ghost stories do yeah, I

00:43:21
would agree.

00:43:22
Speaker 1: I'd recommend it to anybody that can handle a slow

00:43:25
burn, because I know that for some they don't really want to

00:43:27
sit there without a lot and let the tension build like that.

00:43:31
But if you are into slow burns and you can be patient, it's

00:43:36
really worth it.

00:43:37
And it does warrant rewatches because it's just rich with all

00:43:42
of this other detail and then the speculation, and if that is

00:43:46
your kind of movie, I would recommend it.

00:43:48
Speaker 3: I agree and I think, like you were just saying, it

00:43:50
took me really two watches of this movie to get the most out

00:43:54
of it, and I reckon that's probably the best way to watch

00:43:58
this movie.

00:44:00
Most people would see a movie once and be done.

00:44:02
I'd actually probably recommend you watch this movie twice.

00:44:05
Speaker 1: At least twice.

00:44:06
I wouldn't say like it's a good one to put on on a Sunday to

00:44:08
kind of unwind.

00:44:10
Speaker 3: Like it's not that kind of movie.

00:44:11
It's not that kind of movie at all.

00:44:12
Speaker 1: But if you watch it once, watch it again within like

00:44:15
fairly quick succession, and then you can take a break.

00:44:18
It's fine.

00:44:18
But the second watch is so satisfying.

00:44:26
Speaker 3: You miss quite a bit of the subtext.

00:44:26
In the first viewing, um, and since I had no idea what the

00:44:28
movie was about, I was kind of like I said before, I was

00:44:29
waiting for jump scares and scary stuff.

00:44:30
And then, watching it a second time, I was able to just relax

00:44:35
and let the movie sort of wash over me and and sort of get more

00:44:39
into it.

00:44:39
I wasn't on guard, so to speak, and I definitely recommend it.

00:44:43
If you're expecting a bla Blair Witch or a paranormal activity,

00:44:46
you're not going to get it.

00:44:47
No, but you're going to get a really good film and an

00:44:51
unsettling.

00:44:52
Like I said, I can't get over the sadness in the movie.

00:44:56
Yeah, it's a really sad movie, but really good.

00:45:00
Really enjoyed it.

00:45:01
So do the usual thing and ask you guys what's going on in your

00:45:06
podcasting lives and what's happening.

00:45:09
I know you both do the Banshees , so interested to hear about

00:45:13
that.

00:45:14
Speaker 1: I will turn it over to Tab Plug us.

00:45:18
Speaker 4: So we just released our prom episode.

00:45:20
I was going to school, so we got a little bit of a backlog of

00:45:25
episodes to come out.

00:45:26
We did just release our prom episode, but we've got some

00:45:29
really good ones coming out soon .

00:45:32
Speaker 1: Should we tease the topics a little bit?

00:45:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, Midsommar, we talk about that.

00:45:37
Speaker 1: Full horror in general, but Midsommar in

00:45:39
general.

00:45:41
Speaker 4: We've got a whole episode on lesbian vampires.

00:45:44
Speaker 1: That's my episode.

00:45:45
That is my birthday episode and I'm particularly excited for

00:45:48
that, but there's quite a few bangers in the vault right now.

00:45:51
Speaker 3: Yeah definitely Excellent.

00:45:53
Speaker 4: Just to give people a flavor of what the podcast is

00:45:57
about feminist podcast with people of kind of all walks of

00:46:10
life, all different gender identities and, you know, sexual

00:46:13
orientations, and we are looking at these movies and the

00:46:16
different media from how femme presenting people are

00:46:22
represented in them.

00:46:25
Or experience them honestly because some of the topics are a

00:46:27
little bit more like just how did we feel about this as femme

00:46:31
presenting people right and you know we we try to do some movies

00:46:37
that are written and directed by women, but it's also

00:46:41
interesting to talk about movies that aren't, because you know,

00:46:45
that tends to be the the majority and it also those

00:46:49
movies tend to shape how women are viewed through movies in our

00:46:54
culture.

00:46:54
So and how we view ourselves right, exactly we talk about in

00:46:58
the promise for ourselves in those movies yeah, in the prom

00:47:01
episode we talk about pretty in Pink and how that sort of shaped

00:47:05
the way a lot of young women and young femme presenting

00:47:10
people viewed romantic relationships.

00:47:12
And at the time Ducky is a character that I love but is

00:47:16
also really problematic.

00:47:17
He's kind of like a nice guy character and the one that has

00:47:22
sort of been held up is like, oh , this is what you want.

00:47:25
You want a guy to be this interested in you and no yeah.

00:47:29
Speaker 1: He has his fair share of problems too.

00:47:31
Yeah, yeah.

00:47:33
Speaker 3: It is an interesting viewpoint.

00:47:34
I enjoy listening to it, so I would suggest, if you're just

00:47:37
into a good podcast, it's definitely worth listening to.

00:47:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a lot of fun.

00:47:43
We balance out the serious conversations with a lot of fun.

00:47:46
Speaker 3: You've got some interesting personalities on

00:47:48
there.

00:47:48
Yes, definitely, it's always good listening to everyone's

00:47:54
point of view.

00:47:55
It's really good, yeah, great.

00:47:57
And socials where can people find you guys?

00:48:03
Speaker 4: I'm at HorrorFlickTab on Instagram.

00:48:04
You can find the Stiletto Banshees at the Stiletto

00:48:06
Banshees on Instagram.

00:48:07
That's where we post the most, but we're also on Threads and

00:48:11
Blue Sky, I think.

00:48:12
Speaker 1: I'm on Instagram at MissValentine138.

00:48:15
That's M-S.

00:48:16
Missvalentine138.

00:48:18
And I'm pretty active on there.

00:48:19
I'm not really on anything else , but that's my main one.

00:48:23
Speaker 3: No Blue Sky.

00:48:23
You can join up now.

00:48:24
It's open to everybody.

00:48:26
Speaker 4: It's very similar to Twitter, old Twitter.

00:48:29
Speaker 1: I have never even heard of this.

00:48:31
What is this?

00:48:31
Speaker 3: It's like Twitter without Elon Musk.

00:48:34
So it's great.

00:48:35
Oh, so perfect.

00:48:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it was created by the same guy that

00:48:39
created Twitter right, it was it was.

00:48:40
So it's basically like old Twitter.

00:48:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting.

00:48:44
Okay, catch me on that, maybe at the same title.

00:48:49
Speaker 3: All right, it's awesome having you guys on.

00:48:51
Thank you so much.

00:48:52
It's great having you Thank you .

00:48:53
Speaker 4: Thank you for having us.

00:48:54
Speaker 1: It's always fun.

00:48:55
I always find movies that I had never like.

00:48:57
All of the three episodes I've done of this.

00:48:59
I've been blown away by each movie.

00:49:13
Speaker 2: So I love doing this show.

00:49:14
All right, thank you so much, guys, and when we come back

00:49:19
we'll talk about what's coming up next.

00:49:20
And now preview time.

00:49:21
When it comes to entertainment, you can't beat a good film, so

00:49:31
let's take a look at what's coming your way.

00:49:32
Listen, man, I need to splash the boots, you know?

00:49:33
Strain the potatoes.

00:49:33
Barry McKenzie G'day ladies and gentlemen, barry McKenzie's the

00:49:37
name.

00:49:37
He's got a great big grin and a great big chin.

00:49:40
Give him half a chance.

00:49:41
He'll be in like Flynn.

00:49:44
His great big fist will flatten any palm.

00:49:47
Speaker 1: He's got a great big thirst.

00:49:48
You can do your worst when they tap the cake.

00:49:51
Speaker 2: He'll be in there first.

00:49:51
It's a love you'll never win.

00:49:53
And then you hop and go down.

00:49:58
Speaker 4: Raymond, this is Barry McKenzie.

00:50:03
Speaker 1: Go and stick your head up a dead bear's bum.

00:50:07
Speaker 2: Look, barry, seriously.

00:50:08
I've been promising myself a trip to the old country ever

00:50:10
since Norm's little operation.

00:50:11
My family came from Britain many moons ago, you know.

00:50:16
Speaker 3: Um, hello, sir.

00:50:18
I'm terribly sorry, but Somebody must have let that

00:50:22
Australian lunatic on the set.

00:50:23
Excuse me, sir, have you the time?

00:50:28
Speaker 2: Sorry sport, but at point of established fact, at

00:50:29
the present period of time we watch Richard shaking hands with

00:50:32
my wife's best friend.

00:50:33
If we can't make bread out of an authentic Australian folk

00:50:36
singer, I'll quit this racket.

00:50:37
Idiom, like you chose well, sir , you chose well here.

00:50:42
Eh, like it, that'll be 43 guineas for this sweep Capital

00:50:48
idea.

00:50:48
I'll take the boy into my den and put it up to him.

00:50:52
Speaker 4: Oh no, you won't, you filthy old perv?

00:50:55
Speaker 2: I'll ask him I want you to think of me as someone

00:50:59
that you can turn towards.

00:51:01
Yeah, from what I've heard of your mob, you won't catch me

00:51:05
turning any other way From the timber park in South Robert,

00:51:07
kansas.

00:51:07
The adventures of the wild and the wilds.

00:51:31
What unbutton the mutton, you know, point Percy at the

00:51:34
porcelain.

00:51:38
Speaker 3: I think he wants to go to the loo.

00:51:40
Next up on A Dingo Ate my Movie , I'll be joined again by Matt

00:51:43
Fulton as we dive headfirst into the adventures of Barry

00:51:45
McKenzie, and Barry McKenzie holds his own.

00:51:48
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00:52:00
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