The Seventh Continent - Flush Your Money Down The Toilet

[@atro-city]

I saw this film like 8 years ago, a time in my life when I was heavily depressed but did not know enough about mental health (or myself) to know that I was depressed. I don't know why but I could not stop crying after watching this film. Every single film that made me cry had very good reason that I can pinpoint but not here. It was not like 'the green mile' or 'dancer in the dark' where bad things happen to people who didn't deserve those things, here it's people wanting to do something, and them doing it, and that's it. I did not have any appetite for food for like 2 days and I couldn't stop thinking about this film for weeks. It was like I did not understand the film but still somehow the family's decision made sense to me and I did not know why that was or what that meant. It was like the director knew something about me that even I didn't.

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

I guess the mindset behind the people was that there's some tragedy that they don't want to acknowledge, but they don't want to do what they're going to do, so they systematically destroy everything that they have to live for, including money, then they kill each other in the same way. Though, I feel like the deeper meaning is that if they simply killed themselves it wouldn't be nearly as sad. What made it sad was that they destroyed all of their possessions. Without that element, it would have as much impact as a random person getting shot in a John Wick movie.

[@canalquenaovingou]

Vou assistir ao filme ainda, mas... uma coisa é certa - reconheço que venho progressivamente desmantelando e desaparelhando minha vida nos últimos tempos, me colocando numa condição cada vez mais escassa e vulnerável - condições bem aquém de meu potencial e... se não fosse meus gatos, penso que faria tudo ruir de vez.

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

I needed a good film to get me into the holiday spirit.

[@honeybabou6119]

You can do a Haneke marathon then. All his movies are jolly and family-friendly.

[@repletereplete8002]

I just want to take a minute Georg to shower some appreciation on your high production values. Having painstakingly recreated a dingy greasy spoon just off the A505 near Stevenage, in a 50000 sq ft Baja studio must have cost you a pretty penny as the fully formed details are at a Kubrickian level of legendary!

[@princessbubblee699]

I thought he was in a train car that wasn't moving.

[@stephenconnell]

I thought he was on the way home from a drunken binge and stopped off because he needed a drink

[@Kevin_Street]

It's even more detailed than that. Check out the occasional flickers, like this was recorded on an old film camera and then converted at a low rez for KZbin.

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

Jesus, if they aren't even allowed to leave their phone off the hook without the phone company disconnecting their line, no wonder they were driven to suicide.

[@cephalopad]

I hadn't even heard of this movie, but now I want to see it. The film seems to encapsulate the true holiday spirit that is felt by most individuals.

[@zalibecquerel3463]

I ended up watching this last night, and really loved it! It was only afterwards that I remembered "I think Georg Rockall-Schmidt recommended this in a Hiptang or something". I also made the connection pretty early "This *must* be by the same director as Benny's Video". Looking forward to seeing the third in the director's "Trilogy". Pedantic point... I watched this film subtitled... the opening scene where they're waking up etc, they have a clock radio playing the 6:00AM News. This wasn't subtitled, but from what I gather, it had something to do with the Iran-Iraq War (it was a bit early for Gulf War I). I feel that by not subtitling this, a little of the context was lost (i.e., the radio is telling you the world sucks and it's all gone to f**k). Similarly, there are scenes early in Benny's Video of the TV news covering conflicts in Bonsia (IIRC), not exactly bordering Austria, but "driving distance" away, again, setting the tone that "The TV is telling you the world sucks and it's all gone to f**k". In this case (Benny's Video), the visuals are on the TV, but by not subtitling that part of "The Seventh Continent", something was lost. Then again, my DVD could have just been shit. Another outstanding recommendation from Georg. Every month he saves me dozens of hours of "things not worth watching" and I've still got a couple of dozen Hiptangs to check out. Dead Air (and "Toilet, Bucket and Cum Adventures with Damien") are about the only podcasts I listen to. I really should give this man some money!

[@cheesi]

What a cheery Christmas film! Fun for all the family :^)

[@yavrielsechelle7431]

You're some kind of brilliant, Schmidt. The lava lamp in the fore, sitting at a writing desk with just one light. Now, you're sitting in a Diner with a raincoat, and reading a newspaper while just off-handedly telling us about a film for a few minutes. If you've got anything going for you, it's that you know how to set a mood. I wonder if this aesthetic could come from anywhere else other than an English mind.

[@princessbubblee699]

He's English? He looks Portuguese.

[@fex144]

Every nationality can "set the mood", The English are nothing special in this regard. Rockall-Schmidt is good at it to be sure. But to wonder "if this aesthetic could come from anywhere else other than an English mind" is narrow minded, and borderline racist.

[@stephenconnell]

No its just an observation blown out of proportion by your comment which has no basis for the racist remark..

[@guilhermesfk]

He obviously can't be portuguese as his name is not Manuel. Can't be portuguese and NOT be called Manuel. It's the law in them parts.

[@fex144]

stephen; so "only an english mind [can accomplish this]". Yep racist.

[@Gew219]

I guess the film characters also preferred suicide over Australia.

[@wolfumz]

Christian Changer it's just a matter of time before a venomous animal kills the family anyways

[@irrsinnig2349]

Austria. Not 'stralia. Verrrry different countries.

[@Gew219]

Irrsinn Ig Well, they also didn't like Austria, apparently. That's why they decided to kill themselves. Both countries - the one they lived and that one they were planning to move to - were so awful it made tgem suicidal.

[@irrsinnig2349]

You are right of course, for some reason I completly ignored the moving part after I heard the actors talk in dialect. My bad, easily distracted I guess

[@S2Tubes]

I think they were just using Australia as an excuse to be so far away no one would try to find them.

[@Liam-ok9lm]

Well that's bloody depressing. Can't we have one mention of Muppets Christmas Carol?

[@WolfeSpeider]

The name of the father in this movie is Georg, spelled exactly like that. Is there something you aren't telling us, Mr Schmidt?

[@cunjoz]

He even has a German surname. Better change it to George Smith...

[@joanjett24]

Well...there may be...something About Schmidt 😂😂😂 Sorry but i couldn't stop myself 😂😁😁😁😁

[@Stoner075C]

I'm late again...

[@CarterGall]

This movie really left an impression on me. Thanks for the recommendation Georg.

[@Scrapegoat]

Perfect description. My first thought was that watching the movie feels like finding a body.

[@filmdrifter8166]

I love Michael Haneke. Hoping to do a retrospective on him one day. Fascinating director.

[@TheCGJeff]

He wrote Georg! He knows about you...

[@TheColonelKlink]

And on that note, "God bless us. Every one."

[@mic7able]

Dear George. In the eighties, or thereabouts I saw a French movie about a guy who met a girl on a train who said something along the lines of 'Let me tell you a story' The movie involved a garage mechanic, a huge fridge full of beer, a village where everyone raised their hand when asked if they'd slept with the woman at the centre of the story.... In the end, the guy awoke to find that his wife..... well, spoiler alert. Any ideas? I'm positive i didn't dream it.

[@wayne7055]

Gremlins 2

[@Ektalon]

Lil Wayne Bah! Trolls 2.

[@benjammin8184]

Really cranking up the christmassyness now!

[@jasonscott7527]

I really enjoy all your videos . I would also like to wish you a merry Christmas .

[@Nico_enni]

Damn there are so many weird films from austria (Angst, funny games) I'm really proud of my country.

[@franceshelton5809]

My new favorite Christmas movie

[@Barnacl3_Boi]

I actually bloody love that coloured pencil drawing that dude is doodling in the film

[@BillieFingers]

I love your opening and closing shot style in this, its like a jan svankmajer film!

[@tails512]

Flushing your money down the toilet? I feel like that would clog the pipes and wouldn't actually work.

[@NoNonsenseInABag]

tails512 try burning it?

[@FourOf92000]

Shred it first?

[@Uhlersoth77]

Most certainly not with the low-flow toilet that I have.

[@russianspy5307]

Give it to a homeless person

[@etalex7074]

Considering the family is about to kill themselves I don’t think they care if it clogs the pipes

[@JesusKrispies]

Well, I was wrong. I suppose Wake in Fright was too obvious.

[@carvedouttastone]

JesusKrispies would like do see georg review that one.

[@austintravis1954]

This is the absolute best Christmas countdown. I will be genuinely sad when it ends. :(

[@alexanderchippel]

So this movie takes place in the land down under? Where woman glow and the man plunder?

[@MickeyKnox]

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

[@FrostJarl]

You better run, you better take cover?

[@alexanderchippel]

Buying bread from a man in Brussels?

[@EarlGamer]

CALLED IT!

[@JohnOhno]

Any chance you'll ever review The Bed-Sitting Room? It's about a woman who, due to radiation, inexplicably becomes a one-room apartment and her father's attempts to preserve the family's dignity in a post-apocalyptic britain.

[@HashbrownMashup]

Now that's a Kafkaesque concept if ever I read one.

[@JohnOhno]

Yeah. It's absurdist humor in the Waiting-For-Godot sense. Very bleak.

[@harryrushton5270]

Your videos are extremely enjoyable

[@MaxwellTornado]

1:50 I gotta be honest, it works more on me. People kill themselves? Welp, that's a shame. People ruining perfectly good furniture, and flushing money down the toilet? Well that's just cruel.

[@DodZz666]

i love this series of videos

[@WilliamGarland]

In regards to the real event, which I can find very little information about, I think it's rather important to know whether the family was religious or not (or, indeed, whether the characters in the film are), as this ostensibly poignant protest and commentary on the emptiness of modern existence can very easily prove to be spiritualistic humbug. To put it another way, it is quite easy to be anti-materialistic and cavalier in the face of death when one believes they get a second chance afterwards; and those who do not believe in an afterlife tend to be more concerned with preserving the only one they've been given.

[@WilliamGarland]

Many, actually, and indeed many modern/personal interpretations of Christianity (even the most zealous modern Catholics seem to believe the pious self-murderer can get into purgatory to serve a few life sentences to pass into heaven). Suicide rates are not, in fact, lower among the religious, not even Christians. My point being, depending on the actual motivations of the subjects, this sudden mass suicide could prove to either quite profound or quite shallow in regards to philosophical rigor.

[@WilliamGarland]

It is, to be more specific, the difference between Camus's Meursault and the adherents of Heaven's Gate.

[@NB-gx3gr]

WilliamGarland Idk who you're talking to. Intentionally killing yourself is impious in the extreme, not to mention it being a mortal sin

[@DianaB-vm1hj]

really liking this series

[@louveteau3333]

Seems like something worth watching

[@buyahhhhrooo4418]

I love this film, and I love your damn channel.

[@danielfenner5499]

Remake The Seventh Continent with Michael Shannon and Juliet Binoche

[@jba2048]

I just noticed each time a new video is released more beer cans appear.

[@blindlobster]

I would love to hear Georg's opinion of "The Disaster Artist." I myself thought that the film was great, if a little bit "fluffy puppies" (absurdly positive) with the conclusion.

[@dirt420]

why did you think it would be a good idea to spoil this movie?

[@coffeedude]

Yep, there's no way you would know that was going to be the conclusion first time watching. And all the shots he used are from the last 20 minutes or so

[@LudwigHohlwein1974]

Could you do 'Carry On Camping' next?

[@StefanTravis]

GB Shaw said "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell". The characters of _Carry on Camping_ have just died and arrived in hell...but haven't yet realised it. The film is a much richer experience when viewed with this backstory.

[@philipdamico7954]

wow! great video. thanks

[@davedogge2280]

For a second I thought you meant the new Kickstarter board game which is actually cool and that you had flushed the game components / cards down the toilet !

[@JackDrewitt]

isnt Antarctica the 7th?

[@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-]

Zealandia

[@JamesLawner]

This movie looks like an adaptation of my most disturbing thoughts 😨

[@timedwards7338]

Look, as an Australian, you're better off this way.

[@paulpape923]

Haneke is a genius.Fact.

[@FourOf92000]

You should do some Web original shorts for this series. Chainsawsuit did the Local 58 shorts and they're really good.

[@croxmeister]

Are you okay man? Everything alright a home. I'm beginning to worry about you

[@citycrusher9308]

How about Hotel New Hampshire? Very bizarre for something hailed as a comedy at the time.

[@nutriaattack5096]

wow georg makes a video about film from my country? If you find a version with english subtitles you should watch Zucker Oma (sugar grandma)

[@TheMetalAllfather]

Okay, firstly, that _was_ cold, and very bleak. Secondly, is anyone else getting the idea that Georg shot this on 8mm and dubbed his own voice?

[@glknight1813]

I'm glad to admit I was wrong. So I will definitely check this one out. As for the next film, is it another Jan Svankmajer feature? Hope it is. More people need to watch his stuff.

[@nutriaattack5096]

i dont know why i did it but when i start youtube on my browser it always plays this video so i think you owe my 200 views...

[@jamie05601]

I love Haneke, his first film isn't his best but it is still very good.

[@acex222]

this movie is just fucking spooky

[@turquoiseapple57]

Benny Harvey, RIP

[@Zedriodor]

Miss you big man

[@Tjp7624]

Where can I watch this movie in good quality?

[@wildviper]

Whoa

[@ainternet239]

Can you please review [insert name of random film I'm sure no one's heard to prove my street cred]? That'd be great

[@aaronboyd1388]

Keep these going man, have not started watching the videos your recomending yet but this is the best series you have done yet, maby i like those 'just a thought's more, and your mainstream video breakdowns are intresting too, I'm not much of a commenter but had to say I've recently cleaned my KZbin sub list and found your channel again in that mess, you are now safe from my unsubscribe button for the foreseeable future, and on my notifications, keep it going like a run on sentence boss:) ps buy a newer larger lava lamp, or kickstart one, I'm assuming that video announcing its demise was recent, i was watching out of order. Also consider going outside your movie wheelhouse and do an episode on 'its allways sunny in philidalphia'. Anyhow keep it up and ill keep watching.

[@almightytallestred]

Well, at least I won't need subtitles for this one.

[@PierceMD]

I bet the next movie is "The Hand".

[@Herobox-ju4zd]

You probably also like the original "the Vanishing" AKA "Spoorloos" from 1988, not the US shitty "remake".

[@embryon1111]

I loved Spoorloos. I should watch that again.

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Did this influence that _Demolition_ film with Jake Gyllenhaal?

[@Emulous79]

Sounds nihilistic.

[@Johny40Se7en]

Hey, he wrote your name on the wall =P Looks very miserable indeed, I like how you said flushing their money down the toilet and then you were drinking booze, fitting. I like the late 70's early 80's look of when you're sitting in your coat, looks odd.

[@skipdonaghue9451]

Do you share a flat with Eddie Hitler and Richard Richard?

[@SaucerJess]

💙

[@emin5488]

The question is ....What was the reason?

[@Mbember-g7w]

Why not?

[@mrinalkantinath1271]

Why tf Hanake killed those fishes man!

[@BryceChillis]

stella is good

[@sergeantpanther678]

Seit wann sprichst du denn Deutsch, Schmidttie?

[@1st_ProCactus]

They saw all the Asians !

[@MrOldMiguel]

please review begotten

[@charliedawson4877]

This sounds like fun.

[@CannibalWHORE22]

I wasn’t liking the film during the initial viewing. But everything just starting hitting me all at once near the end. The husband and wife were getting sick of their mundane tasks, the daughter being a nightmare of a child didn’t help. Everything just piling on them internally, they destroy their stuff, but in a normal first world people hold their possessions more dear then other people.

[@luh2112]

Hi

[@marvelgirl7740]

It seems almost like a Dogme film.

[@marvelgirl7740]

I didn't mean to imply that it was TECHNICALLY like a Dogme film...it gave me the same feeling. It has the same look. But, that's just to me. Everyone sees something different. I've seen a film done completely on a cell phone camera and you can't tell. sO mean, wits obviously not shot like it had great equipment but, I was impressed. I thank you for your assistance in my ongoing education of film. It's a great medium, and totally underrated by the masses as an art form.

[@LaurentiuBadea]

3:05 wait wait wait wait wait... So we're not addressing this at all?

[@vash47]

This is such a fucked up movie man

[@vantablack6288]

y

[@jacobmccracken1779]

intotheflamesoficeandfire yes

[@cptncutleg]

I don't remember subscribing to you. Oh well

[@mistertagomago7974]

Graal Otonami You should be happy you did :D

[@natfailsyoutube8163]

You know you can unsubscribe if you wish, right?

[@cptncutleg]

nat4200 I didn't say I don't enjoy the content, only that I don't remember subscribing

[@Skusioh]

maybe tone down on the dope then ;P

[@RocketeerRaccoon]

What a really weird and bleak premise for a story, an entire family that want to commit suicide...kind of like Lemmings (the ones from the video games of course, not those small rodents).

[@kostajovanovic3711]

That is Haneke for you

[@frankstnable]

was going to say that word for word, you gave me shivers there^^

[@numberneinlarge9965]

First!

[@muffnman980]

Tenth

[@Nilguiri]

Tenth incontinent.

[@jayfolk]

the continents by land plates are: the Americas, Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, Australia, & Zealandia. 6 not 7. Worth a Google.

[@Nilguiri]

Well, assuming you classify Zealandia as a continent in its own right. Not everybody does.

[@WilliamGarland]

The title being an allusion to Shakespeare's (Hamlet's) "undiscovered country", a metaphor for the mysteries of afterlife.

[@sugarnads]

Europe and asia are considered separate continents.

[@snape6156]

Most people would say 7: N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica

[@wayne7055]

That's a pretty horrible way of looking at continents