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got yes so but it's based it's the Radhika up the mission essentially so if you haven't watched it go watch it come back we so would we so nothing Amazon we saw it on Amazon here in America it's also on Z it's on Z it's on Z because I actually went to Amazon and it said I had to watch it through arrows and I didn't have my arrows active okay it was an Amazon it says Amazon Prime but it needed me to do it through arrows so it actually is on Z Z5 okay I have a problem though and you don't know if you had it on Amazon there was a subtitle problem was there yeah basically it was censorship bullshit it was oh no the fact that whenever there was a bad word it was dot dot dot on the subtitles no I didn't have that yeah that's I hate that fucking ridiculous yep try to censor that yep yeah yeah censor that anyways Rick your initials please um so I have to talk in the spoilers about the fullness of my this is also take was we're just doing all spoilers yes okay all right yeah your initial so my my initial thoughts the only thing I enjoyed was Radhika Opte's performance there wasn't anything else really I liked about it in fact there's some things I really disliked about it primarily dealing with storyline at least on the believability factor continuity things of that nature they were fine there were some aspects of the believability factor that have to do with the Goraphobia the origins of her ago or Goraphobia the way her Goraphobia was treated that was really hard for me to wrap my head around and parts of the story that I just I didn't like so the only saving grace for me was Radhika Opte because you could basically have her read the names of people in the phone book and she's gonna be great but other than her I really didn't like it yeah I liked it I didn't love it I did I did have some issues as well in terms of the overall stuff that was left out of overall I think I got basically what they were trying to convey overall but and I think there was some good I was surprised because I thought it was mostly just gonna I didn't know if there was gonna be a lot of like scary stuff in it I think they did a pretty good job with the suspense of some of it did any of it scare you did you get jump-scared at all or the only time I was got little like a little jostle was when the thing came through the wall okay that was very true yeah yeah but I don't I don't scare too easily yeah I don't either but for this unfortunately I was never once like but even remotely close to yeah but also I didn't go into it because I actually expected more of just the drama of her wanting to stay inside yeah opposed to full-on scary so there was there was a little more suspense than I actually anticipated yeah but yeah let's talk about the stuff we liked first especially obviously Radhika Opte you all know that I think she's the best actress in India overall and one of the best actresses acting today she everything we've seen her in she is really really good in and she has such is such a range I feel like and she's so honest and everything she does I loved her performance even though I there was there was some stuff that I if I was writing it I might have done differently absolutely but in terms of her performance yeah I can't critique her performance not at all and that's that is really the only saving grace for me in terms of like because for me if somebody were to say shall I watch phobia I would say no if you do I'll tell you that you're gonna enjoy Radhika Opte because she's just good but it's it's like venom mm where Tom Hardy's the saving grace yeah but even more for me because there were so many things in the writing with this that bothered me in terms of what they could have done with the story but as far as acting concern I agree everything you said I agree with you that I can't argue anything you said about and about her and I wasn't too impressed with almost any of the actors it's not like they were totally totally bad some of them but it's not like one of those things it's like it's just her everyone else's shit but no one else was really standout for sure correct but I did think are the one that we've seen in multiple series and then that last week which is not happening on the channel right she was much better than she was in that correct she was back to being back so I thought she was a good actress correct that'll come later after spooky month yeah but yeah other than that the acting supporting cast I didn't think was great not at all not not bad but you know nothing there's nothing to say well you know it's not great yeah it was interesting how they did the story because obviously it's a I forget the word if it's permission pre premonition premonition because that's basically the whole story is that she had premonition yes that's the word yeah that she had premonition yeah so what was gonna take place as part of her yes struggle of what she was dealing with yeah so it's basically you basically find out she's she envisioned all of this because so that that's one of things I did enjoy is that I they kept you guessing of where it was going at first you're like okay she's obviously just going insane she's seeing all this stuff blah blah blah blah basically then you went to is any of this real right is she just cuckoo nuts oh and all that but then obviously it steered you in the direction of this was all stuff that she was starting with obviously her painting from the beginning yes seeing the last shot right I thought that whole concept was was good I enjoyed that I don't know if it totally landed because there was some questions I had in terms of like obviously not really the boyfriend but that guy and what he like his whole vibe was was he actually trying to murder all these people or was it accidental it kind of really just left that it really did out in the open and then obviously did he mean to what happened to our Nicky yeah it's a Nicky yeah she's funny down what happened to her character right she kind of just was there on the floor right is she dead I don't know they just didn't answer any of those questions at all correct and I think that the vibe I got in terms of him was that and you guys can tell me if this is wrong or not he either sexually assaulted or raped her and that was the thing that she said in the beginning in the car he's like you want to come up and she's like just because happened once it doesn't happen a thousand times the thing at the end where she he was basically trying to take advantage of her again even though she was in this vulnerable state and then she said all that stuff your hands discussed me and so that led me to believe that wasn't like a consensual thing it was like she was drunk he took advantage of her yeah adding to her gorophobia and then obviously that whole the taxi thing as well yeah tacked on to that yeah but I don't know if it was that that's the way one of the things is like I wish it was maybe done a little bit better a little more like I know you probably think a lot better yeah than that yeah I I agoraphobia is has so many questions around it it's such a complex and mysterious challenge that people have to deal with first for some people it's onset is from a traumatic experience but the majority of the time agoraphobia doesn't really have like panic attacks doesn't have a definitive cause it just occurs and that's part of the thing that makes it so disconcerting for the person having it is they can't pinpoint why this happens to me and that was one of the reasons I didn't particularly like the fact that the root of her problem was definitively she'd been raped so now she has agoraphobia I would have preferred that we stuck with something a little bit more high IQ and let us wonder what's really wrong with this girl does she really have agoraphobia can we point to an actual root cause because they left us no question she was traumatized by a rape okay what's interesting is that more often than not agoraphobia isn't caused by a traumatic event it has that level of mystery if mystery so for example if you had simply just let it alone like at the very beginning when she has this premonition and you can't differentiate between is she having a vision a premonition or is she hallucinating is she agoraphobic is she schizophrenic I would have loved to have not known what she's dealing with just leave the rape part out let her be symptomatic and call the movie phobia with a question mark just call the movie phobia and let the audience wonder are we ever gonna get the answer to what this is yeah I a movie that you should watch instead that gets this right is a movie called repulsion it's Franko Zaffarelli come on James no he was the Manson murders it was the director famous director no no no no the actual director that lived up at that house okay gotcha I can't believe I'm forgetting his name and then he was he's been out of the United States because he was accused of molesting a kid and this is his first English-speaking film it's called repulsion I can't believe I'm forgetting his name right now really getting me back but it's a very good black-and-white film about a woman who has a phobia it's an actual phobia she's afraid of men and it is a psychological thriller that's really twisted about this girl who's afraid of men if you want to see a movie that is what this could have been watch repulsion you can find it either on Netflix or Amazon I'm gonna look up the director again and that the other thing that was too easy to write it's too easy to make people get angry with somebody who's agoraphobic and just make them dicks because somebody who's dealing with agoraphobia for four months and you lose your patience with them you clearly didn't care about them enough to know what the symptoms of agoraphobia are and how long people have them and there's a lot of really famous people who have agoraphobia and who have to manage it and live with it so that that was the by far the story which is movies movies are storytelling yeah the fact that the story didn't didn't have those elements and had the elements it did was the only thing I liked was right up to yeah yeah what do you think about the score though I thought it was fine yeah yeah it wasn't I think that's one of the things that added to some of the suspense yeah that that I that I I didn't actually expect a lot of suspense in this I was I wanted to watch this because it was ready to update I was like ready to update in a apartment I thought it was basically you're just gonna be you know was mostly her for the for the most part honestly I might have enjoyed the score more if like I put down on my notes at one point when she was really freaking out the fact that the whole time I know the reason she's where she is because she was raped it's not I wrote down it's really no fun watching an innocent woman live a traumatized life after having been raped I don't I don't find anything technically in the taxes she wasn't raped she was almost raped sexually assaulted still yeah it would be a lot more interesting and I would have been able to really embrace what she's going through as a as a scary thing versus I'm not enjoying watching a girl who was sexually violated and has been traumatized by the experience now be traumatized and I also you know lines like it isn't real yeah I that's one of the issues I had with the supporting cast and that the writing of it yes the virtual reality whatever yes our therapist was terrible yeah I kind of get why the the guy was being a dick because he is an asshole right and that was his character right he didn't actually care about her and she's like it was one of those like he's a terrible person but he likes to make her think that he right about her right he could maybe get in her pants again right and all that kind of stuff but yeah I like the therapist and then like the I don't know if it was a sister in the beginning well and and the other part like the disconnect and part of this is I know this I don't know a gore phobia as well but I do know mental illness as well because my dad has battled mental illness his whole life the moment she started having things that could be hallucinatory whether they were premonitions or visions whatever they were they were they were in the category of being hallucinatory I immediately thought this isn't a gore phobia because that's not an aspect if you look up all the symptoms of gore phobia there's never anything in it that has anything to do with hallucinations well that part is more about the permonitions and right right but they diagnosed her as a gore phobic well I think she is and then she but also overall he has a lot of the symptoms of a gore phobia she didn't demonstrate so it was just that's why for me it was just I felt like we didn't do our homework on a gore phobia and we used it just but Rodica Opte again no she's she's one of the actors that I genuinely think like Tom Hardy yeah you can give them anything and they're they might not be great but they're not gonna they're never gonna be bad they're never gonna suck I would be shocked if Rodica ever put in a bad performance I genuinely think you could give her anything and she's gonna justify what she's doing and people leave a bowling you're gonna go damn I tried to get you to suck but yeah but yeah the movie I don't know what would you get because I would give it probably a B minus oh yeah no I know you wouldn't give a D a D yeah my scores and the reason I gave it those scores was because primarily my my score for story was really low out of 25 points out of 100 I gave it only 13 out of 25 believability I gave 15 out of 20 not because of continuity or editing or sound or things like that but because the believability of her not really demonstrating a gore phobic things hallucinatory things that were okay to be a premonition but it doesn't make sense in the context of what we're dealing with score was actually it was 14 out of 15 directing and DOP was 14 out of 20 just because nothing was standout ish for me so all told you sit the saving grace that made it be a D which is when I give a film a D I say didn't like it don't waste your money I really don't think you need to watch it if it had been an F I would have said it's awful don't watch it you can't say this is awful because she's so good yeah yeah I definitely don't think it's that bad but I would probably give it a I don't have a great you give it a B range B minus yeah but we all know Rick's an idiot so let us know what you thought about this film down in the comments below also what should be the next spooky film and please Rodic Opte film yes that we can watch down below