Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 2012 Fantasy
Thriller film : “The Brass Teapot”.
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The movie starts with John and Alice, being another normal couple that wakes up together
every morning. Alice is a well-intentioned wife willing to prepare breakfast for her
husband, if only the fridge wasn’t empty. That’s why John has to get up and work hard
to earn money for their living. John gets to his job and tries to sell some insurance
over the phone while his supervisor demands more productivity and better results from
him. John blames his bad results on his bad economic situation but his supervisor doesn’t
really care much. At the same time, Alice has a job interview. She is actually rejected
since she doesn’t have lots of experience or a master degree like most of the other
applicants. When she returns home defeated, their arrogant landlord bangs on their door
and demands the rent money. That adds more pressure on the couple. Alice checks their
e-banking statement and, after the rent payment, their balance shall be -45 USD.
Later that night, John and Alice join a reunion party in a place where most of their past
schoolmates seem happy and successful. Their dress-code doesn’t fit in. Eventually they
meet another couple, friends of theirs, and are able to exchange some words, mostly about
their problems. The bright side? Drinks are free and they can really party.
The next morning, the couple decides to visit town and do some shopping since their fridge
is still empty. While driving on the suburban roads, a truck crashes on their car on a crossroads,
because the STOP sign is missing. Luckily, they are fine. They have to stop for a while
until the police arrives and records the accident. Right next to the road, there is an antiques
shop which is run by an old lady. Alice notices the old lady is picking up a golden teapot
from the ground and she’s walking inside the shop. Alice walks into the shop, attracted
by the teapot. She and the old lady have a short conversation until the old lady is distracted
by the phone. Alice looks around for the teapot and she finds it. She touches the teapot and
is instantly hooked. She holds it close to her body and runs outside of the shop, into
her husband’s car. She orders him to go fast. John is surprised that his wife stole
something but Alice argues that this item is “so pretty”. While Alice calls someone
to book a job interview, she also straightens her hair. She accidentally burns her forehead
with the hair straightener and the teapot starts trembling. The phone slips out of her
hands and she approaches the teapot. She removes its cap and sees some dollars in it. She starts
making the connection. She intentionally burns her forehead one more time and the teapot
trembles again. It has now produced 700 dollars. Alice tests the theory one more time by kicking
a chair and hurting her foot and fingers. More money produced in the teapot. That is
great timing because John is getting fired off his job at the same time.
John returns home and finds the living room merely destroyed and his wife almost passed
out. Alice reassures him that she’s fine. He tells her he got fired and she replies
it doesn’t matter. She gives him the teapot and John feels a funny vibration. Alice slaps
John and then shows him the money that the teapot has produced. She explains that the
teapot will pay them to hurt themselves. John has a hard time believing it but Alice knees
him hard in the groin and the teapot goes crazy, bursting money out of it. John initially
realizes that this whole thing might end badly and makes a move to return the teapot back
in the antiques shop. However, he changes his mind the last minute and is seriously
hooked in the moneymaking item. John then takes the teapot to a “Cash or Trash”
style TV show where the host values it at 5000 dollars. No deal for John. In the meantime,
an Asian middle aged man watches the show and seems very interested in the teapot. He
pinpoints John’s location on the map hanging on his wall. John and Alice agree to earn
one million out of the teapot and then stop. They make themselves go through painful experiences
and stash some cash. But who says they can’t enjoy themselves in the process? They indulge
in some kinky spanking and sex and the teapot really likes that. Alice and John have changed
for the better. Not just on the outside. Their mood has been elevated as well. That’s apparent
at the lunch table where Alice’s mother and her sister can’t seem to understand
how they are doing so good while they are just dependent in John’s salesman salary.
Everything seems to go well until two men dressed as rabbis intrude their house and
start beating John, asking him where the teapot is. It was a thing their grandma was missing
and couldn’t rest herself about it till the day she died. Alice hides the teapot under
a pillow and tells them they sold it already. The rabbis demand the money from the sale
of the teapot. Alice proves devious enough to trick them. She quickly gets the money
that the teapot has produced due to the beating John received and gives it to the rabbis.
They take the money and leave. This event alarms them and they decide to research the
matter of the teapot a bit deeper. They visit a library and find just the right book about
mythical magical objects. Alice sees a page depicting the sad consequences of the usage
of the teapot. She doesn’t want John to see it. When John is distracted, Alice tears
that page off. The couple lives their dream life for a while. They buy a new car, a new
fancy house in a rich neighborhood, they renew their wardrobe and they throw parties with
high profile guests. Then one day the asian man rings their door
bell and introduces himself as Li Ling of the Theosophical Community. He says he is
interested in ancient artifacts, especially teapots. John genuinely wants to listen to
the man but Alice just can’t let go. She tells John they will lose everything if they
lose the teapot. Li Ling tells them they are in great danger but the two of them shut the
door in his face. That’s not the only visitor they get. Their former landlord, Arnie, pays
them a visit and gets in the house uninvited. He asks them how two losers like them can
end up in a nice neighborhood like that. Arnie acts all stupid, he is drunk after all. He
takes the teapot out of their hands and runs outside with it. John tries to take it back
but the teapot ends up in the middle of the road. Arnie runs over the teapot with his
truck but the teapot is perfectly fine. Not even a scratch. Alice finally feels relieved.
But also, it’s kind of peculiar. How can the teapot endure a truck running over it
without taking any damage? They visit Li Ling and ask him about it. Li
says the teapot can’t be destroyed. The only way to get rid of it is to hide it in
a way that nobody can ever find it. He talks about the history of the teapot, stating that
it has made its way into the hands of some of the best and the worst people of all time.
Li warns them that even if there is a bit of evil in them, the teapot will bring that
out and magnify it. The last time there had been any reports on the teapot was in a nazi
camp a long time ago. For once more, Alice convinces John to not hand the teapot over.
She claims they are good characters, good people and they will never lose control of
themselves. So their struggle continues. One night, the two rabbis who assaulted them
in the past, break into their house again and steal their money in the middle of the
night. They comment that John and Alice are amateurs because they hid their money into
the toilet flush. John and Alice hear them and get out of their bedroom to confront them.
The rabbis confess that they are not really after the teapot because they know what pain
it can cause and how it makes you mad. They’ve seen it on their grandmother. So, they let
John and Alice take all the pain and create their fortune for them. They are just after
the money. John and Alice try to stop them and a fight breaks. John ends up unconscious
and so does Alice, when she is hit by the intruders. Things have gone into the downward
spiral. The teapot now pays less money than it used to. And frankly, Alice and John have
taken enough damage till now. They have hurt themselves a lot. So they decide to get some
help. They visit a bikers’ bar and ask who the meanest person in there is. The barman
points John to the right guy and John starts a fight with him while carrying a bag with
the teapot in it. Of course, hoping for the best return in profit. John is hurt and Li
approaches him again. He tells him that the teapot is consuming him and his wife. At the
same time, Alice observes that the teapot can produce money when other people are hurt
as well. A skater trips near Alice and the teapot makes money. Alice shares this knowledge
with John and they start attending painful events to assist the teapot in producing money,
such as MMA fights and births. The teapot has indeed started consuming Alice’s soul.
While she’s driving the car with John sitting next to her, Alice mentions that this world
is full of pain. A homeless money is crossing the road while Alice is deeply absorbed in
her own little world. She accelerates with the intention of running over the poor man.
John steers the wheel the last minute and saves the man, preventing his own wife from
committing murder. They verbally fight with each other. Alice blames him that he can’t
cooperate and he can’t understand her vision. Another little discovery for Alice. The teapot
has produced money out of emotional pain this time. She tests her new theory on John by
insulting him real good. She is right. The teapot produces money out of emotional hurt
as well. Alice demands from John to emotionally hurt her. John is reluctant at first but then
obeys Alice’s demand and describes a past event when he kissed another woman and how
he still thinks about that kiss sometimes when he kisses Alice. Jackpot.
They make that a regular thing. Insulting each other and sharing dark secrets of their
past to make each other feel awful so that the teapot can produce money. In the end,
Alice concludes that she has never been so honest with another person in her whole life.
They stop doing that to each other and start making other people feel bad by exposing their
secrets to their loved ones. They manage to pull a good amount of money. Alice would go
as far as exposing her own sister’s dirty secret, that her first child was conceived
with another man and not her current husband. They put the plan into action but Alice regrets
it and doesn’t expose her sister. When they go back home, John tells her that she did
well. She is a good person. But Alice says that her remorse will delay their progress.
She suggests they pull one large final stunt to reach one million dollars and then stop.
John argues they already have enough money but Alice won’t hear any of that. She says
there are pedophiles and drug dealers in the playgrounds. If they kill one such person
they will both do the society a favor and, in addition, they will get paid well. John
doesn’t agree with the plan but he can’t say no to his wife. They go as far as digging
a grave but John is now determined to stop. He says he can’t go on with this. He asks
Alice who she would choose between himself and the teapot. Alice gives no answer. John
leaves disappointed. John visits Li and asks for his help. Li says that it’s already
too late. John tells him to just steal the teapot but Li says that it doesn’t work
that way. They have to willingly hand him the teapot.
That night, when Alice finishes her bath and walks to the bedroom, she finds John sitting
on the edge of the second floor window. He pleads her to give the teapot back after he’s
gone. Alice pleads him to not jump but John jumps. Alice is worried about her husband
and she learns a tough lesson. John comes to his senses and wakes up. He asks Alice
if she now is willing to give the teapot to Li. She says she is ready. But there is one
more problem. The same night, Alice and John go to sleep. They hear a noise from downstairs
and John goes to check on it. This time, someone has stolen the teapot. That someone is Arnie,
who suspects of the teapot’s mysterious abilities. Indeed, Arnie has hurt himself
and so does his girlfriend, because they have discovered how the teapot actually works.
John and Alice go to his place to take it back because they are the ones who have to
give the teapot to Li. A fight breaks between the four of them. The two rabbis are thrown
in the mix because they have been lured in by the teapot. Alice recalls that they had
touched the teapot when they intruded their house and stole their money. Luckily for John
and Alice, and with the help of pistols and rifles, all the others eliminated themselves.
Now John and Alice are free to take the teapot and give it back to Li. So they do. Li praises
them. Kings and queens in the past haven’t been able to get rid of the teapot’s influence
but those two managed to do it.
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