What a load of bull crap . . .

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I also think it is interesting that the movie critiques racism and class structure, while also kind of claim that Abigail can fish with her bare hand, and make fire without tools, simply because she is working class and brown and thus primitive. Such a meta situation...

My favorite horror movie! This movie was so damn good. Edit: I can't recommend this film enough. I watched it with subtitles. I don't think there is an English dubbed version. But, even if you are a person who absolutely hates subtitles, this is a must-see for scary movie fans. I'm a harsh critic of movies in general and horror in particular. And, I truly recommend Noroi to anyone looking for something truly scary to watch.

Will be watching this tonight seems to be very interesting

This is fucking brilliant analysis. I’m blown away dude. Keep it up!

I have to disagree with this entirely.Race and class is intertwined, that's why majority of the waiting staff are white, the people who are forced to clean up literal shit and those who work below the deck are people of colour...that's no coincidence. when Paula asks Abigail why she gets more, its not just in the capitalistic sense, but from a racial perspective too... Abigail is not as deserving as the white counterparts EVEN in the wild...at least that's what Paula is really trying to say. Also even the film in some ways portrays the radicalized character in negative ways. Abigail is portrayed as more animalistic than the others (when she picks up the stick in defence, or when she hits Yaya with the rock compared to how the men could barely hit the donkey without crying). On the island, Nelson is giving Dmitrv a haircut...he's STILL relegated to a service person despite the fact that they are no longer on the yacht. Racism is rooted not only in our system, but in our minds.

Your English is 3 out of 5

I believe the dog is actually a boston terrier

Interesting. This doesn't really matter in the greater context of the films communication internationally, but a whole heaping lot of the extras in all Ruben's films are authentic people from the art world, fashion world, celebrities etc in Sweden, basically playing themselves, like cameos. The designer (female in t-shirt) judging Carl, is a famous one (Ann Sofie Back) and beside her is a Swedish fashion editor from Elle, and the blond in the back an actress who's also a famous fashion stylist; the dog is the designer's (every Swede who knows fashion immediately recognizes the dog at the first frame of it) not the woman's who has it in their lap. The people on the entire first row of the catwalk scene are famous profiles in Sweden (Ruben's country) and Ruben himself is married to a fashion photographer, who knows all these people and is the real reason this script was written, as Ruben's fascination with the world and hierarchies of fashion came about through his relationship to his wife, and they spent hours discussing the realities of the business, where beauty is the ONLY currency, and male models have the lowest status, the shortest careers and get less pay than the female models (unique reverse situation than the usual). This idea of beauty as currency, and the totally new discovery for Ruben of actual relationships as transactional (to boost careers, like Yaya does for Carl) was what got him writing in the first place. It was a real story about a male model who'd had a break for a big perfume brand, but slowly started losing his hair; his agent said he had 2 years left in him, but being the face of a big house he had to either sit tight for a while, or get a more famous girlfriend in fashion to get another high profile job, boost his profile, and that got Ruben's attention. Understand, to Ruben's generation, commodity-type relationships (fake for publicity) is a shocking discovery. The idea that not even that is genuine or private today. Also the entire money-vs - equality conversation is taken word for word from his own early dating with his wife. Of course there's a racial aspect in a film all about various hierarchies. In the first part, they are your commodity, your flavour, the face you give, what you deliver. The model is object, the jury subject. The designer's dog is a visual brand even (to those who know). Yaya hardly needs Carl, but he's going nowhere without her, they both kinda know that. His hopes of being her equal is doomed, he has no currency to be "the man" literally and figuratively (but that changes in chapter 3, at which point Yaya starts caring or feelig sorry for herself ). Actually, it's the african engine worker that was supposed to become king of the island originally. But one of Ruben's students said he thought it would be more interesting if it was a female, and Ruben totally agreed and changed the script to make Abigail, the asian toilet cleaner, the heroine. Which dictated the rest of who does what. What's really cool and utterly unique about Ruben's working method is he does the exact opposite to most screen writers/directors. Instead of hush hush about his work, from day one he does nothing but talk to people about his ideas he's writing, trying them out, listening to people's reactions and thoughts. Students, family, friends, colleagues, anyone. So for a year or two things are still changed, adjusted, new stories arise, old ideas are dumped, in search of the right way to raise the questions he's interested in to the effect he's hoping for. Also the way his actors play these characters is largely up to them, and include big surprizes, so changes must be made to scenes, in order to follow the script credibly, the way a character is portrayed, so the story gets told. I think there is a possibility of reading more premeditated aspects into his work therefore, on the other hand I believe he's highly intuitive and sensitive to what's going on frame by frame, (like a musician with perfect pitch), so that more layers arise kind of naturally when shooting. Nomatter how high he turnes up the volume of comedy, satire, absurdity, it's really important to him there's a believability about each scene, or the spell is broken (the agreement with the audience). So he gets in deep with research on specifics like luxury yacht companies and related stories, or actual problems of the fine arts world vs handling byte sized media when writing The Square. Which was likewize full of real fine art dealers, several controversial celebrity artists, critics and society figures more or less representing themselves, lending more than a bit of real world credibility to the scenes, at least for Swedish audiences with an observant eye. But his films work regardless of cameos or famous actors in the roles. Which is also a neccesary choice. And I'd argue it gives more probability to limit those than if all these actors were hollywood celebs, or the Kardashians were in the front row. It might be just as funny, but not as uncomfortable and unpredictable, or ambiguous if it was an all star cast. I like that alot about Ruben's work. He's a big fan of my favorite director Michael Haneke, which was evident to me from the very get go, and still is to some degree in his work (although Haneke doesn't do comedy). He's definately had so much fun putting together scenes with political references (not just the quotes mind you), and it's a bit funny to me foreigners either don't notice or more or less ignore them. Harrelson though, fell for his role immediately as he's an avid anarchist. It's tangible how much he enjoys playing the Marxist American Captain bonding with the Ultracapitalist Russian Oligarch over their common passion: getting shtfaced. 😂 Truly a fantastic casting choice! This film is one of the best modern films studying how human behavior and hierarchy shifts when you change the working currency, the funtioning system of power. Three obvious currencies apply to this film: part 1 Beauty. Part 2 Wealth. Part 3 Practical survival skills. Race, gender and age is involved but in the end these systems are all quite absolute within their context, but redundant in another, except perhaps the practical skills which are always necessary for any other systems implementation. So... even in part 3 cute becomes currency to some degree, but wealth and uselessness is dead weight. Like the poor are to the oligarch in his world. In Den Wolken, as it were. You should see Östlund's other films. Yes, film and all media for that matter, is manipulation, as is the process of anyone telling a story. Both Haneke and Östlund want their audiences to remember that.

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Great movie. I also liked the filmmusic.

art is subjective and you can interpret images however you want but downplaying the importance of race when it comes to inequality is downright problematic and borderline racist. Just because there are images of a rich asian woman doesn´t mean that race doesn´t play a big part in the movie. I´d say the most important takeaway from these scenes is just how much an audience is willing to ignore racialized characters in favor of white characters in a movie. ofc these thing can be seen in however many ways you want and that´s the sign of a good film, but saying that race is of small importance shows how biased you are, specially when there´s a scene in the yacht where all the cleaning crew is made up of asian people indication a clear racial disparity in inequality, at least in western countries.

The director's name for Moment of Contact is James C. Fox not Jamie Foxx. So much for artificial _intelligence_ 🙄

This movie was fkn amazing!!!!

really really good video

Jamie fox lol

Best observations I’ve seen on YT. Thank you. ♥️

great commentary

Watch it ding dong

I love alien sighting stories! This oke sounds awesome thanks!

Brilliant review!

Maybe the first part is about power of beauty, the privilege it brings, then the second part is about power of wealth and a hierarchy based on money. Third part is about individual powers, skills and abilities. Leadership, brutal force and trade.

It’s BRILLIANT…. And DeLeon is the best actress I’ve seen in years…

Well said!

great vid!!

no idea how this video and you aren't more popular. real good analysis right here. 👍🏽

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It's not a frech bulldog.

Well at least there wasn't any black guy that moved like a monkey or something.

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Here before this Blow's up

0:03 humour taboo 5:03 main characters, they slowly lose their status as the parts go on 5:35 modernity and power

I can easily tell these guys apart, which is odd for me I'm typically awful at that.

It's because pretty much all Asians have black hair and thin eyes

There more variety in india man

the nom-disabled white dude 💀

Loved the movie. I disagree with your opinion. Also the other Shazam family members do play a part in the story.

Bro just said “enable it and you can pull”

If you think abt it this way, this was how the west conquests and treatment towards the native tribes were. It just a reenactment with humans as a whole acting the part of 'invaders'

I think race is a major factor, but also, as you point out, not a major factor in all aspects of class inequality. Both can be true, right? It is often a big factor, but also sometimes not a factor. Wild movie! love it

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And older than newborn babies wearing hats inside their homes. I know it's because they swap out the babies and the hair would give it away, but it just looks absurd.

Gotta love Japan The people there are so honest

Definitely could've been rewritten because the descendung action from the climax was too damn long and by that time would've checked out of the plot willingly. Opinions would've been quite unanimous even those who were charitibale enough to excuse it as 'instinct'. But that charity is not limitless, after all the true measure of someone is when life is in danger

6:56 mins shows the luscious vanity of male models. The host was clearly more suited to the role. But rather acquire power than shallow praise. Beauty is skin deep. Fashion is about hiding imperfections.