 Today, we're going to be talking about Fresh. This movie came out in early March and it starts Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar Jones I talked about it on my Twitter and I posted my reviews on Letterbox But you guys seem to want a video I mentioned that I filmed it and then I didn't like it So I scrapped it and you guys still said well you guys I mean like two people said that they actually really wanted to see the video so I rewrote the video I got my shit together and we're gonna be talking about Fresh and make sure you guys stick to the end of the video because today's sponsor is Raycon. So Fresh is a movie that follows a young woman played by Daisy Edgar Jones. Her name is Noah and She is battling the horrors of modern dating. She's going on dating apps She's going on these one-off dates and they seem to be very bad. Good luck finding a guy. You stuck up bitch Um She ends up going to the grocery store one night and meeting this cute Charming awkward fella who offers her a great she decides to take the risk and give him her phone number It's nice to meet you. You too. I'm not gonna text you but I'll really want to What unfolds next is a 30-minute sequence of them just going on a date getting to know each other having fun They go to dinner. They have drinks. They have their first kiss. He goes over to your apartment They fool around and he's like no, I don't want to have sex. I'm just this is a bit too much Like can we just take a break and then she says do you want anything to drink or eat? And he pauses And then he says no Just you Then they proceed to fuck hard All through the night after that our two main characters decide to go off on a week and get away together They stop along the way at Steve's cabin They sit down to have their first drink and after a few blurry shots and echoed voices No falls face first into the rug and that is when the opening title hits the screen fresh first watch I hated this decision. I hated the 30-minute drawn out first sequence where it was a lifetime romantic movie after the second watch I found myself enjoying the sequence a lot more I found it to not only be a great creative choice, but a necessary choice for the film you get good character info on Noa and Steve in a seamless manner of them getting to know each other You get some funny foreshadowing throughout those clips where you're kind of like what is everyone saying? She's under the fresh meat sign. He's saying he doesn't eat animals What's going on? Noa wakes up in a new room and realized she's not just on the floor, but his chain to the floor She looks up to find Steve sitting in a corner waiting for her to wake in my opinion This was one of the scariest scenes by far. I was My skin was crawling when he was sitting in that corner Sebastian stand looks so fucking scary and something about him sitting precisely in the corner made it just seem really Suffocating and claustrophobic, so I really like that choice and I know it's not that big of a deal And I know it's not like oh my god like oh my god cinema like no one's ever done that before But I just thought it was really I don't know. It's just very eerie something about the way they shot it Just right me me pins and needles pins and needles all over my skin, and I hated it But I loved it after Noah starts breaking down crying. She asks him if he's going to rape her Steve tells her He's not going to rape her. He's just going to sell her meat He explains that he slowly cuts off body part by body part to sell to the elites who love to eat human flesh He explains that keeping her alive as long as possible is what makes the meat more valuable I love this scene. This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie I know it's pretty on in the movie to be saying that one of the scenes is my favorite But after going back and watching it again, this scene still gives me like the like It like literally makes my skin crawl again while watching it every single time It just I don't know even knowing what happens afterwards. It just like literally This scene. It's just really well done by Sebastian Sam and Daisy Edgar Jones. It's directed wonderfully. It gives this very claustrophobic Doomsday energy Which I really like Noah decides to ask Steve for a shower if she can have a shower He then agrees and takes her to the bathroom While she's going to the bathroom. She decides to try to hit him and make a run for it So Noah ultimately fails at this. I mean her hands. She was handcuffed. I'm sure she's malnourished It's been a day. She was just like drugged like she's weak. I'll give her that. I'm not gonna roast her So Steve grabs her. He says bad girl And he pushes her up against the wall and he knocks her out and as punishment He decides the only worthy thing to do the only worthy thing to do to punish her and to make her realize what she's done Is to cut off her ass. I'm taking her ass Alongside Noah's story at steve's cabin where she's being held hostage We also have simultaneously happening Noah's best friend Molly trying to find where Noah is So she goes on some google searches. She tries to find out more information about him She realizes his name is not steve. It's like brian or something or like brandon I don't even fucking remember what it was. She also finds out he's got a wife and kids And then she's texting Noah and she realizes the texting behavior is Different Molly goes to steve's house and she finds his wife there She starts asking his wife if she knows where her friend could be Steve gets home and he's like who's this who's our guest and then she's like, oh This is Molly. She's trying to find her friend and he's like, uh, I don't know any Noah But obviously molly is still suspicious So she calls Noah when she calls Noah you guessed it steve's pocket rings He looks at her. She looks at him and he goes Noah starts talking to steve not knowing that his latest victim has been her best friend And she decides to start asking him about cannibalism What does it taste like? Why did you ask me what it tasted like? And he enjoys this he enjoys, um being the main character. He enjoys, uh attention Let's have dinner and we'll see how curious you are So he decides to ask her to dinner and she obviously accepts because why would she got Last time she got punished her ass was gone. What's gonna be next? Her boobies Before they eat she starts asking him more questions. When did he start? Why he does it? Steve states that he started when he was about 18 or 19 And he explains how amazing it is how amazing giving yourself over to someone in that sense can be Becoming one with somebody else forever And that's And this rhetoric that eating someone can be the ultimate form of bonding that it is the ultimate way to Connect with someone at the end of the day There's no better way than giving yourself up to someone to ingest But if you've read like literally any story on cannibals like the few that are out there Like you're probably gonna come across some that are like no like this is how I bond like this is like I want to eat my partner at the end of the day and they want to eat me at the end of the day Like that's what we want to do. I wish we got a little bit more into why steve was a cannibal I liked it that a little bit that they did choose that like it's the ultimate bonding thing Like it's the it's giving yourself over to someone like I liked it that they did that I wish they did it more because I find it I just really wanted them to really make that steve character full So we could have all sides of this character by the end of the story This is a real side note But all I can say is that I know human meat does not taste good Like if you are thinking about being cannibal don't not from experience I'm never eating human meat But I have spoken that I would eat human meat if it was consensual like if someone like was cutting off a piece of their leg And they're like hey, like I'm giving away my meat Like I want people to try it and like people who want to try it like you can try it like it's a meat It's my leg tasting party I would be down like if it was consensual they weren't dead like I would totally be like well if you like if you were right there And you're saying that I can eat it like I'm totally like I would try it Oh, honestly, even without being said that I would try it. I don't believe humans taste good I believe that they would probably be the most disgusting meat to eat if you think anything from this video don't eat humans They're not gonna taste good and you're gonna you're gonna literally have a bunch of leftovers and be like what the fuck Am I gonna do with this now and then this next thing and she asked him to dance. He's like let me do let me Let me get jiggy with it Let me let me bust a move right now real quick and you know tear up that dance floor and And not apologize for any second of it You know what I mean? They do this very very interestingly long slow motion dance scene of them like Just turned it up to be honest as much of a mood shift This was as much a bay tone shift. This was for the film that it was like This was a really big build-up suspense thriller What's going to happen next where's her friend is she gonna get out like it? It's just them dancing for a long time and although it's a mood shift. It's entrancing. It's it's Beautiful in a sense this scene gets cut between Noe and Steve getting a little frisky and they start cutting between Them and making their way to the bedroom and no a lay Steve down and she exits the bathroom for a second She comes back and she's like hey And then he's like laying down and then she's like Obviously like someone's gonna get a little job and it looks like it's gonna be him a winner winner chicken dinner And then all we hear is chomp chomp A hungry hungry hippo just bit off that penis She comes up and what does she have on her hand? She has toothpaste she rubs toothpaste in his eyes and then she runs out and she locks the door And she takes the keys and she runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs to the cells And I know his downfall is a lot more than just this scene, but in this simple terms as we can get it It's so funny to see a man's downfall be because he wanted a blow job He could have asked his wife for one, but lust kills his ultimate downfall was having sex It wasn't cannibalism But he decided to have sex with Noah, then he wanted a blowjob. He would have been able to get away with it if it wasn't for his lust. It's ridiculous. We could all get away with cannibalism if we just didn't participate in sex. Steve is getting messed up, and messed up to a point where they believe that he's down. Like, he's down. Like, we can make a run for it. Well, they're wrong. They're wrong because he gets out of the cabin. He gets out of the cabin. He has no penis, or his penis is messed up. He's pantsless. He's got a bashed in face, but he's also got a gun. So now he has a gun. He's shooting aimlessly into the woods. Then they get him down and they beat him up, and then she's holding the gun at his face, and then her final words to him. I want to eat them. They're so delicious. She goes, give me a smile. And this motherfucker smiles, and then he gets shot in the fucking eye. I loved it. I loved it. I loved the fact that all the gore was mainly on him, which is such a refreshing thing to see in horror, because I have noticed a common theme without horror, and this branch-off genre of horror where it's just kind of like women being tortured, and that's so scary and like that's horror now. When like the basis of horror, and like a very big trope within horror, and based off of this like final girl trope. It's about this final girl survivor making it out to the end, and then it was really refreshing to see that even though there was gore dissuading this movie, it was mostly focused on Steve. As soon as we believe the horror is to be over, Steve's wife shows up on the property. Don't remember her name, and don't care to go looking up right now. She finds Steve's corpse and orders the employee to go put him on ice, revealing that she really didn't care about Steve. She was worried about the business. She was worried about the family business for sure. She was worried about the small family business, the mom and pop shop if you will. If you will call this a human farm mom and pop shop, you know what I mean? Earlier in the movie we saw that not only was she a contributor to the violence Steve was committing, but also a victim of said violence. So in this scene she basically ends up like being like, oh my god, like he's finally gone. She goes up to Noah and she like tricks her into thinking that she's like a victim or something. Well she is a victim. And then she ends up trying to strangle Noah and like you're probably wondering like why? And you know, for multiple reasons probably because she bucked up with her money, she bucked up with her business, she killed her. The father of her kids, you know, even though the father of her kids was a little cannibal and she's a cannibal and blah blah blah. So this draws parallels between Steve's wife and Noah in a way that they both sacrifice parts of their morals and themselves to survive. But at what point is it no longer surviving and just becoming another partner in crime? Noah is seen betraying her own morals by eating other women that were a victim of the same circumstance she was in and relating to Steve that she understands the desire and wants to help him. But she does it to not only save herself but the other women trapped as well. And we see these parallels and we see this major jealousy strike within Steve's wife because she was Noah. Like they did the same things to survive and Noah was beginning to take her place. She was becoming the other woman sort of deal, you know? Compare the two characters side by side and what they do and how their actions are, you know, displayed in the movie. It kind of shows or like highlights this complicit or it kind of emphasizes selective and complicit feminism within society, you know? Business like you are the fucking problem! His wife is almost as bad as him in the movie. Like, she was actually a bitch. The film ends with all three victims surviving and we assume they make it to safety. So the last shot of the movie focuses in on a group of men of all different kinds. They are surrounding a table and in the center of the table there is a pile of meat. 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This film can be interpreted in many different ways whether that's just a classic horror story about cannibalism, a commentary on the modern day meat industry, or a depiction of the disposable view society has on women today. This film has so much to be talked about. It opens up so many conversations. I think there is tons of ways it can be interpreted and tons of ways it can be enjoyed. I really love this film. I really love the director Mimi Cave. I think she did an outstanding job on it. I love the creative choices taken in this movie because what's better than a movie that makes you want to talk? That is great. If a movie doesn't want to make you talk that means it's not good. The fact that I want to have endless conversations about this movie just means it's got to be on my top of the list because I can keep going on and on and on about it. There are so many layers to talk about and I don't even think that I covered everything about this movie in this video but I really just wanted to wrap it up in an organized way. That pretty much wraps up all my thoughts about it. Please if you do anything today comment what you thought of this movie and your opinions whether you hated it, whether you loved it, whether you agreed with my interpretation of it, whether you disagreed what was your interpretation of it. I want to know all your thoughts. I love getting to talk to you guys about these movies that I could just talk about forever. Whether it's a really bad movie or a really good movie if it makes me talk it just like literally stimulates that part of my brain that goes like it just makes me very happy. It stimulates the part of my brain that goes we by basically saying it makes me happy. Wow. You guys are following me on Instagram and Twitter. My Instagram is at Tikal level. My Twitter is at level trend. 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