Hello welcome to What The Flick. I'm Christie. That is Matt. That is Ben. We're not crazy - you're crazy.
Or is Claire Foy crazy? We don't know. That's what Unsane is about and Ben's gonna describe it to us.
Tell us about Unsane which came out last week. We're playing catch-up with it.
Yeah, so this is a Steven Soderbergh film shot and have very interesting manner, which we'll talk about momentarily.
This is a movie that I didn't know much about and so I thought it was about many different things before I
finally figured out what it was actually abou. This is the story: Claire Foy plays a young professional.
She has moved from I think Pennsylvania to Boston.
Other way around: She's moved from Boston to Pennsylvania. Or, has she?That's a good point.
She can never escape herself though. ... And early in the movie
we see her engaged with a Tinder partner, and then she has sort of a psychological breakdown before that relationship
consummates and it turns out she's being stalked which leads her
to go talk to somebody about that
and then as she has that conversation things go terribly wrong and then once we realize how terribly wrong
they've gone, they get even worse.
So please follow me.Well, okay. I don't have a lot of time.
I should be back at work, so what am I doing in here. Take off your clothes down to your underwear.
I'm not sure what's happening here.
The door's locked
It would be better for everyone especially yourself if you just do as I ask
There's been some kind of mistake. By signing this you've consented the voluntary commitment. I am being held here against my will.
Do you know how many calls the cops get like that every week? Those are from crazy people.
All right, I love this movie, I'm gonna just jump in. Yeah. I really really like this. We saw it last night.
We had fun
Yeah, I saw the same show the night before. Yeah,
I like this movie a lot and
in spite of the gimmick of it being shot on an iPhone 7 that took me... a plus!
Sorry, a plus. Fancy.
Ok so
The first 10 minutes of the movie, it's a little like
It's it kind of the
cinematography bothered me and then as things get kind of more and more off with Foy's character with
what is it? What's her name?
Sawyer Valentine
Amazing yeah. As things get a little bit weirder with Sawyer and the shooting starts to fit better and better
what I really particularly liked about this movie is that
it starts off as one thing and changes into something else and then kind of changes into something else and then changes again and it
keeps
turning into things you don't expect and I loved that and so by the end of it, it's,
yeah, this movie. It's they nailed the ending. I
really really really like this. Yeah
I thought the way was shot at first was going to be a gimmick, right? And Soderberg has done this a lot over the
years. He directed it shot it and edited it.
Yes, as he always does his various pseudonyms, so I thought okay?
This is a gimmick, but you know he he made bubble for like no money with not actors
This is another one of his experiment, and that's kind of cool that he still wants to do that kind of thing
but I found that the way it was shot on the phone actually made sense and put you on edge from the very beginning because
at first it's sort of watching her from afar like through trees limbs and you don't know why.
It makes sense, but and then
He'll come like up underneath her like option like a weird angle on her and and so you're kind of always on this off-kilter sense
Of mind and that puts you into her mind
And it makes sense and then once she is in the institution it makes absolute sense to shoot that way.
It's grim because when she gets she get so we'll give the because it happens early in the movie
She goes to talk to someone and they think she's suicidal and she isn't. She kind of inadvertently
Inadvertently self [commits] and that has happened to a friend of mine. Really? They got themselves 5150'd
Okay, and for what was going to be 48 hours and then through some heroic work out in 27.
But still institutionalizes when they and because they made a joke about
Killing themselves you know just being who they are.
But totally stressed out and was depressed and then and then had to scramble like hell and spent a hellish night
And so I thought oh, this is gonna be about that
This is the thing that can happen and there's a whole theme in the movie that this is the sort of
subtext of insurance companies
Of these facilities getting people committed because they know the insurance companies will hold them for at least in
Pennsylvania for for seven days and then when your insurance is out there we go
you're you're no longer a threat to yourself or to others and you're out. So, I
Believe that that I know it can't happen, and I presume it is a problem with sand it was either way
It's to me. I was like. Oh, this is a cool idea of a sane person
Trapped in a in an institution in there essentially jailed and can't get out and they're given drugs which of course
Can make, you know, make it seem like you belong
Institutions are in then they make it seem like you of course you're in. And of course you're gonna lash out.
For sure to the last shot like a crazy person which makes them think you're a crazy person
She's stuck for even long
But then it turns out and and we think that we don't want to give away the serious plot twist
But but we think she's the many of the plan
But we think the thing that she says she's crazy about is you're thinking oh it turns out she is crazy.
Well maybe she isn't but maybe she is.
There's so many different things going on because she inadvertently
Inadvertently gets herself committed and she has run-ins with the other
patients and one of them played by Jay Pharoah who was in Game Night recently from Saturday Night Live
and
unfortunately doesn't give us his killer Denzel, Washington impression in this particular movie
But it kind of gives her like some pointers like hey look just doing your time keep your head down and she
And she has real trouble with that and you think and you start to doubt him
Whether or not he's on the level you doubt whether everybody
You doubt everybody and so you've got all these different layers happening
And they all get wrapped up in various ways
That some are satisfying in various ways some are not and you know I'm trying to say this without
Giving it away, but I love that this movie kept going in directions. I never expected and I'm a big fan of that
I've talked about that before. Like at no point in this movie
Did I have any idea where it was going and it kept taking left turns, but it earned them.
Yeah, it should and then again the ending like the very last scene is just so so good
because then it makes you kind of go back and like oh, whoa,
Wait a minute and [I] loved it absolutely. And, question everything you just saw. Yeah, I've never seen The Crown
So I guess Claire Foy is pretty great
But one thing that was really impressed by here is she's various versions of herself
Depending on who she's talking to throughout the course of the film and so you wonder whether she's actually
A sociopath because she can turn it on like what she wants to charm somebody and impress them with like how?
Reliable she is and how charming she is like she can be that, but she can also lash out violently out of nowhere
So she keeps you guessing the entire time. Is The Crown good? Is she good in the crown?
I don't watch The Crown. There's a show you don't watch? There's a show that exists. There are thousands of shows... Have you seen The Crown.
Right, I've seen a little bit of it.
It's about British people. Yeah, we see Sawyer be
Angry, we see her be vindictive. We see her be seductive. We see her act reasonable. We see her
act child like/ We see her play power games.
And it's this ... it's this terrific performance that you ...
Buy that this character is capable of that. It makes me as soon as I saw that I haven't seen The Crown
But I saw it so I thought Oh every ward she's won for The Crown is totally justified.
It doesn't matter. This is an enormously talented actress.
Just changed my number on the fly too. I'm changing my number, too. Do I have to do math again? Alright. what's your number now?
Before you said it's gonna raise the whole thing point three. As we as we talked about
Claire Foy. What we see out of Claire Foy in this is
a
variation in performance
That I think is close to what you see at a Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black. Yeah, yeah
She's she doesn't always within one person, but she really you do see these different aspects of this person
And I thought it was fascinating. I did one thing that kept me a little
irritated and
There was a moment when it had the first change where I was like bummed out because it seemed like it was gonna be formulaic.
Then, they got out of that because it was not. It's .... no one would argue this is formulaic.
Okay, great was shot on an iPhone 7 plus
It needed some lights. There were a lot ... there were more than one scene where I'm like
I can't see their faces. I can't. This is maybe that's part of the point.
I got that was part of the point, but sometimes people make bad points.
And and so I thought hey this we need something. Right, totally. There needs to be something here to make me
This bit Dyke
I got it, but this looks like it was at moments indoors where it was shot with a where that iPhone
And I thought you could get a light it would be okay
Yeah, I mean like pretend there's a lamp in the back of the room
Yeah No
We we talk about
Tangerine on this show quite a bit also
Shot on an iPhone Sean bakers film prior to the Florida Project also shot on an iPhone, and it does provide an intimacy.
But also ... Florida Project? Yeah, you know Tangerine was. Yeah, it was like prior to Florida
Project. But the thing with the iPhone is it gives you an intimacy you know and
maybe you can tweak the lighting and
Obviously didn't want to he's sitting he's Steven Soderbergh
He watched scenes that I'm bothered by and he was like no
I'm good, and that's fine, and he does he knows he knows more but uh
But I did I did regret that so I'm pulling mine from a seven-point eight to an eight point seven
Okay, so wait, so it's now eight point four?
You're at one. I'm seeing seven point eight yeah, that's good right. Yeah. Yes, you're exactly right
a core four yeah, I believe other people at this table are correct. Okay, so
78% is where is all the Tomato Meter, it's better than that yeah, it's short which is also Ben's favorite thing.
Which is also Ben's favorite thing Which helped after sitting through 20 minutes of previews. When you go to AMC, I am not exaggerating
23 minutes of trailers and promos is egregious.
One of the great thing about Cinemark is that ten minutes they start the movie. That's right.
they start that movie yeah, Amy Irving by the way as I
Like I like to see Amy revenge, so I want to also let people know that so we're recommending this movie
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I'm just saying you know. I'm not telling you what to do, but go do it and we're boat
We all like this movie, and we think we give credit to Soderbergh, but you know Jonathan Bernstein James Greer
They wrote a really interesting well written. Yeah. Bye.