This Christmas Film Is Accidentally Anti-Vaccine

[@thethirdchimpanzee]

It's too bad that there isn't some kind of...covering... that goes over the face...that can filter out toxic gasses. A...gas filter face covering device. It would fit over the face similar to a Halloween costume head covering...whatever those are called.

[@timothymclean]

I think the biggest place where the movie slipped up was having a light of hope for the people who didn't take the Exit Pills, for one reason or another. In a vacuum, that's a nice way to have a bittersweet ending in a movie about people taking cyanide pills to avoid the apocalypse...but it's also the plot element that makes this slip into an accidentally perfect allegory for antivaxxers' beliefs about vaccines. And it's also kinda weird for a climate change allegory. I mean, there's no way that marginalized people ignored by half-measures against climate change will come out _less_ doomed than the people those measures half-protect. I cannot imagine any sensible way that Art's survival (and the implied survival of some people who never had access to Exit Pills) could fit into the allegory for climate change. If anyone else can, I'd love to hear their thoughts, because it just seems bizarre. This isn't related, but any reference to the "FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?" bit cracks me up.

[@JimMeiller]

Yeah, it's weird how well this works as an (unintentional) anti-vax allegory given how poorly it works as a climate change allegory. Like, if you read it as an anti-vax allegory it's arguably a much better movie, at least in terms of thematic coherence.

[@user-qv2qf1jk5o]

I mean, I get the idea that the pills = doomerism and it’s a pill only those in relative power can afford to take, really. So: true, earnest attempts at survival are GOOD, though sometimes required, while rolling over is BAD, and always optional. It does get a bit messy in terms of actual material conditions - maybe they could have said something about how they can afford greater protections, to be safe from the gas for longer? So ultimately more marginalized populations die anyway tho some survive? But then that undercuts it significantly bc the ending is even less optimistic IMO, as it implies that only a handful of non conformist rich people are still standing. So it’s not as much of a fun twist. ultimately I think it’s better read as a spiritual allegory, which doesn’t give a lot of thought to the agency of implied offscreen characters

[@ThatDangDad]

Every plot beat you explained to me somehow left me ill-prepared for each subsequent plot beat. This is like if someone watched Melancholia and went "But what if funny??". Which... hats off to em, I love audacious film making!

[@hootsyoutube]

It’s interesting! They made choices! They didn’t always work but they made them!

[@WeaponizedStrumpet]

"Sell their houses to who, BEN?! Fucking Aquaman?!" Every time that gem is brought up, I crack up.

[@PrettyTranslatorSarahMoon]

"They should be fucking." -Hootman, 2024

[@hootsyoutube]

😭😭😭

[@thehristokolev]

Ah! Unexpected little hoot video 2 minutes after I finished an unexpected mia mulder video, I guess this is my lucky day.

[@Emileigggggh]

your christmas PJs are so cute! That sounds like it could be a really good horror story idea if it didn't have these troubling antivax parallels lol

[@hootsyoutube]

My friend Tammy bought them for me! We have matching ones!

[@Seal0626]

"Equal parts Aesop and Rorschach" I love that. Stunningly succinct.

[@WhatsTherapy]

The family that dies together stays together!

[@brttbrntt]

Can't believe how long I watched you talking about 2020 in confusion before remembering it's 2021 now.

[@MainelyMandy]

Ok, I definitely need to watch this. Even with *gestures at everything* a dark comedy taking place during an apocalypse is very much my jam. Speaking of, have you ever seen the 1998 film Last Night? It's a really fantastic darkly funny but also really poignant little movie all set on the last day of the world. Its more of an ensemble kind of movie but it's really good and I think you may like it.

[@hootsyoutube]

I don't think I have! I'll have to go find it!

[@thatlycantomboy]

damn. this. truly an unfortunate film. but lmao, yeah, I’m glad the “why are child actors so good now. is that healthy” like was in here b/c I’ve been questioning the same thing for years

[@GUILLOTINE_GANG]

Oh NOOOOOOO! **fuckin love this movie analysis**

[@jaesynn2015]

Lucy Punch as Sally Shepherdess is one of my favortie TV characters ever.

[@hootsyoutube]

Top tier, underrated queen.

[@aimeemariet]

Lucy Punch in The 10th Kingdom, though? On point comedically.

[@hootsyoutube]

Iconic

[@XanderLars2]

This is the exact kinda media that makes me want hugs, and want to give out hugs, and there' never enough around to give and receive enough to make me feel like I can stop. I'm glad people are enjoying it, but I wish i could give out so many hugs to those who get the same way i do.

[@johnsmith9403]

So glad the eyeball zone brought me here some time ago. Your content is so well done it really deserves a wide audience. Have a great holidays!

[@Ember_Green]

definitely going to watch this now. hilariously unfortunate. Happy Holidays, Hoot! Thank you for all your work, I've learned so much from your videos & laughed a-plenty :)

[@hootsyoutube]

Happy Holidays Ponderful! And same. Can't wait to see what you have in store for 2022. 🖤

[@simon_lukas]

Do you know "Man from earth"? The best one night-one room-movie I have ever seen. Really feels like a theater play (in a good way)

[@mothmaiden]

Meanwhile I am stuck on trying to ignore that the toxin cloud seems like a problem resolvable with decent air filtration, but I am sure they address that in the film? 😅

[@hootsyoutube]

Mostly with a few lines with blanket statements like there’s nothing that can stop it.

[@tytesseract]

Meanwhile in Australia a maverick scientist did some kitchen sink chemistry & brewed up a solution that reacted with the toxic gas and neutralised it, plucky farmers flew through the toxic clouds & crop dusted it out of the air

[@roxanarama]

dang silent night deadly night 7 lookin good

[@silversam]

Happy Holidays Hoot ✨😊✨

[@hootsyoutube]

And to you and yours!

[@MrDirtydaves]

Hahaha, my girlfriend and I were both avid cracked readers as well and it’s funny when one of us brings up a fact from an article we both read years ago.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Yowch, that must hurt for the filmmakers! It's rather like how the Mysterious Benedict Society's premise feels just a bit unintentionally and unfortunately sussy-wussy in world now plagued by Qanon. (Do still check out the Mysterious Benedict Society, though, because it is delightful in spite of that.)

[@Cal6009]

Why not just... Buy a gas mask? Oh wait!

[@bonniescott2733]

Subscribed after you mentioned Lucy Punch's role in 'The 10th Kingdom'. You are a person of TASTE.

[@blameitoncapitalism]

I disagree so much with the sex scene part. I love, I absolutely LOVE the fact that I there's no sex scenes in this movie. it does tells a very vlsad message. sex isn't the center of people's lives and relationships. companionship, caring, laughing, support, understanding, knowing, is. And this is NOT a message that's said in most movies and that is ONE HUGE TRUE we are in desperate need to spread.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Their "what if we didn't listen to scientists" movies always take extreme creative liberty when depicting scientists.

[@Aranock]

Choices were made for this film omg. Like wtf.

[@Aranock]

Sorry just thats a lot with the suicide stuff. That's a lot. It feels like the ultimate "they didn't think about the implications."

[@Aranock]

Anyway the video is great, I hope you have a good end of the year 💜

[@hootsyoutube]

Happy holidays and happy new year Aranock. 🖤

[@QuakeRangerTaya]

didnt expect The 10th Kingdom to be mention and makes me happy to know more people know about it. good. Its good

[@DavidB75311]

8:32 Hello from the far flung future of January 2023, where there's a renewed critical analysis of the politics of the first Star Wars trilogy thanks in large part to the overt politics of Andor. Also commenting to for your analytics.

[@arturo182]

WTF, what a premise! Never heard of this movie, sounds a bit like a loooooot more subtle Don't Look Up, which I couldn't watch cause it would just make me angry. Thanks for introducing me to this!

[@VinceWhitacre]

Wonderful video (as ever), and best wishes for 2022!

[@TheCstar07]

Great video. Finding your channel was such a joy. Thank you

[@nicholaszacharewicz693]

Awesome video! Happy holidays! Here's to a great 2022! 🥂

[@LukeFromLasVegas]

Short and Sweet. happy holidays. ♥

[@hootsyoutube]

Happy holidays!

[@LennyPowers]

Lucy Punch in Dinner for Schmucks is peak Lucy Punch IMHO.

[@Scriven42]

Happy Holidays! Happy Catholic New Year! I think the presentation is awesome, and you should make the choices that make you happy. :) And a Scrooged reference at the end!? Excellent!

[@AsterInDis]

Black Lady Sketch Show had a running sketch set about a dinner party set as the world end. Very entertaining; maybe someone's compiled it all on youtube.

[@prophet8724]

I really thought that with the mood at the end that you were going to make a call back to the movie by taking a vitamin or something.

[@richardbud]

I bet Little Hoot gets great presents for her friends.

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

In my teens I could not stand bleak movies. I was desperate to find something to be happy about, and I was chronically depressed, I viewed bleak movies as traps. As something I would get stuck on and fixate on if I dared let myself engage with it, I shoved that shit away so hard as a teenager because I was desperate to have a good time while I could. It felt like it was my only chance. 30 years old now, and very tired. I've been running away from the bleakness for a long time, but I found that dark comedies let me do one very important thing. They let me laugh at the abyss, they let me laugh right at it's fucking face.

[@lookalivebrett]

This video is so good, wtf? How am I just now finding your stuff? This is fantastic!

[@gillianc8106]

I had no idea this film existed, so when you mentioned the basic premise at the start, I paused your video, went over to and watched it, before coming back. Like you, I really enjoyed it - even if I did guess the “twist” that was coming, considering the title of your video. And like you, I was stunned by how good the child actors were, though after seeing Jojo Rabbit, I really shouldn’t be surprised by Roman Griffin Davis, at the very least. I have pretty dark taste in film and books, and this was right up there as well as giving me several big laughs. I’m new to your channel, having recently discovered Caelan’s, and after seeing the long piece you made with them breaking down the whole “queer people are groomers” BS and being ridiculously impressed with…well, everything about it, I had to subscribe here immediately. So far, I love your work and I’m looking forward to watching more of it. Hope you go from strength to strength!

[@SoyBruv]

Great video! I hope algorithm will deliver a ton of views and subscribers to this channel )🎁🎄✨

[@scoshyyyy]

That’s Lucy Punch’s real voice with possibly a slight exaggeration, she does the same accent in motherland and has a very posh southerner accent irl

[@vincentheartland2088]

Well now I’m just angry that I would never, in a million years, figure out what a brilliant message this movie had unless someone had told it to me

[@jackmaritt5094]

Check out Lucy Punch in 2006 Being Julia 🍿 Thanks Hoots

[@cheshirewa1tz]

Could the flurry of toxic storm the son is exposed to not be seen as an allegory for vaccination? Maybe this interpretation wouldn't be supported by viewing the rest of the film, but it's the thought that occurred to me.

[@AnarchoCatBoyEthan]

woo baby cracked reference! i miss me baby, happy Cody Johnston is tearing youtube the fuck up nowadays tho. Great video as always!

[@devinodonnell]

Hmm... it appears that I might have to check that movie out after all since I dismissed it entirely as I am not a fan of christmas movies in general as there is clearly more going on with the plot than the standard hallmark movie nonsense I initially suspected it to be based on the title.

[@user-ru4ip2pr1j]

Bad, bad timing for that movie

[@grmpEqweer]

I'll be back. Gotta walk the dog.

[@mve3425]

great vid! really enjoyed your analysis & delivery

[@paineoftheworld]

I just come to these videos for the random screams. And Cracked! is back.

[@EverettCDavis]

I feel like the same idea applies to _Don't Look Up_ which was probably supposed to be about climate change, but was interpreted as being about covid by some people.

[@officialprozac]

Just commenting 4 engagement

[@randomtinypotatocried]

I'll definitely have to check this out

[@moksound19]

oooh I feel for the movies' creators.... But your presentation is really good tho! Love your videos!

[@bgoodnow]

Algorithm boosting comment! Really enjoyed the video!!😊

[@sugar_walls]

i think you'd like bacurau brazilian film, it is splendid

[@CoreenMontagna]

Great little video!

[@Nagoragama]

Christmas

[@Kuudere-Kun]

John Carpenter's artistic intent for They Live really doesn't matter, the fact is making the villain an outside other pretending to be normal people is the conservative world view. The Left is supposed be blaming material conditions, but it simply is more difficult to actually do that allegorically which is so many Leftist allegories are wide open to Right Wing co-opting.

[@PeaceLoveAndGuns]

Fun video as always

[@VioletSadi]

Whoopsie doodle.

[@andersdscott5944]

Whoops!

[@northern999]

What were you drinking in this video? It looks extremely enticing.

[@ryanlacroix6425]

are you ok? i hope so.

[@Nobody-y5t5j]

I had a heart attack after getting the shot. "Safe and effective" *GET YOUR BOOSTERS!!!*

[@ghostel9253]

Okay, ignoring everything else in this video (great video by the way) the movie sounds great and I'm sad I didn't watch it myself

[@DANINREDDY]

Why dont they put on gas masks?

[@AspelShuyin]

The intended metaphor doesn't actually really work? The too-little, too-late neoliberal solutions like sea walls and minor carbon reduction aren't the same as suicide to avoid a painful fate.

[@swishyclang]

oops

[@gonzalo4722]

Cool.

[@knate44]

Not related to the video, but can they name of your fans be "little hooters"? It's equal parts naughty, funny, and cozy.

[@hootsyoutube]

If they want to be! I've never really thought about it! Hootizens? Littles hoot? Hootians?

[@knate44]

@@hootsyoutube Imo any of those could work. Community poll?

[@hootsyoutube]

@@knate44 gonna wait and see what happens organically

[@xp7575]

Speaking as a Leftist this movie sounds based

[@TheBrett1890]

Great vid from great channel :)

[@jonatanbergkvist9796]

I'm directing my hate and stimulating your algorithm.

[@nicematerial]

No, it's not healthy to be a kid that giod at acting. I'm hoping in our lifetime the rules and laws around children and entertainment will change dramatically.

[@nightwingphd8580]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@nevem5010]

❤️

[@SECONDQUEST]

Hello. Engagement on enjoyable content.

[@1Hawkears1]

Uhm Actually star wars is about something >:( For the algorithm x3

[@knate44]

Also, you has a discord?

[@hootsyoutube]

I'm not on there a ton, but yes! discord.gg/HN3QYKPn

[@knate44]

@@hootsyoutube that's fair, I'm just a server slut

[@1oace768]

Wait... Why don't they just all get gas masks?

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

That's a good point! I mean, why the fuck weren't gas masks given out-

[@CrimsonTide001]

Talks about conspiracy theories while literally naming off conspiracy theories. We've hit peak irony with this one.

[@h.p.lovecraft6904]

As an unvaxxed person in 2023, I quite enjoyed that movie.

[@ricosuave5392]

I like this vid

[@discodiscordia]

Please make your videos a little more accessible to us neurodivergent peeps. 🙏