 Are you in it? Are you in it? I'm in it. Turn off your phone! Beautiful. Yeah, not as full as what I usually am. I'm kind of having to be honest with you. I hate grub for pepperoni. Come now. Stop it. Welcome back to Scoonsville, where we do all things movie reviews. Today, on the program, we're covering The Father. Mm-hmm. Yes, Anthony Hopkins. Well, he's already won. He's already won. Yeah. That's great. Yeah, yeah. He's a myth. I don't look that up. For everything. For all of him. It's very stuff. It's very quick. Yeah. And we love him. We do. And he's why we watched The Father. Yeah. Yeah. There were a lot of things I liked. I like that the whole thing really takes place on one set, but because it changes throughout, not only adds to the disorientation of it, and then the kind of confusion that puts you into Anthony's mind going through, you know, his dementia. But I don't know. It's actually, I guess the point was to portray dementia from the sufferer's perspective, which I think they did very, very well. Yeah. For me, the first thing I would say was when the tiles in the kitchen, they changed color. Yeah. And I was like, is that what's going on here? Yeah, I didn't catch that at all. Yeah, he didn't catch that. Glad you mentioned it real time. Yeah. Yeah. I like to think I just, I don't even know if I'm not observing with movies. I just rewatch movies a lot. So then every time you rewatch, you're going to notice other things. But you pick up on things that would usually take me like 10 watches to notice. So that's very helpful. Yeah. Save a lot of time that way. Yeah. There's so many things that I really enjoyed about the movie. The acting was fantastic. Yeah. With the scenes that they decided to, you know, have in there, I thought they were all very gripping. Like there's the one where Anthony is with the potentially new caregiver, Immigun. I think you got the... Immigun poof. Yeah, that's her name. And then, and then his daughter and kind of doing an interview just to see if they get along well. And, you know, he's trying to entertain her at some parts. But then at other parts, he just completely loses sense of his manners and just starts to say offensive things to both his daughter and the potential new caregiver. And I thought it was a very just like, like it was, it was, it was a very easy scene for me to watch in terms of I'm in it. Like I'm, I'm in, I'm feel like I'm there. It's affecting me physically, emotionally, you know, and I found really most of the scenes like that in the movie. I was, I was very much drawn into. It wasn't a movie for me where I was just kind of started to space out or I just started to, you know, so I think for what they decided to, to include, I was drawn in the whole time. I think overall I found the movie was for whatever, I don't even know what I was expecting. I'm trying to think of really what, what I was, I was hoping to get, I guess from seeing the trailer, but it didn't quite, I guess, satisfy me in the way that I can't even explain to you how I would want to be satisfied with that movie. So it fell short somehow and it's a kind of maybe unfair to the movie because I can't even articulate why. But maybe I was hoping they would, they would do more or say something different about the movie when really it was just kind of the decline of his mental capacities through his progressive dementia. And then it leads from him being independent to him being, you know, in a nursing home and kind of takes a toll on the family. And you're like, okay, fair enough. Yeah. And then they did it in a certain way and I guess I was just like, okay, well, I don't know what, what more they could have done, I suppose. But in terms of the, what they, they, they did include, it was all very well put together. Yeah. I definitely feel the same way. I really wasn't as gripped as I expected that I would be just based on the trailer. The trailer was just incredible and I was expecting that that would translate to the movie. But again, something that we talked about is, you know, what was the goal, right? Because you have goal in terms of the people creating the movie, but then you have goals in terms of the viewers. And so that's, again, I'm not really sure what I would have, what they should have added. Or I guess for me, the one thing I could think of is, I would have liked to see, see them draw out the experience of the people affected by a loved one's struggle with dementia. And you never really see any kind of, you don't really see anything that supports the kind of commitment that Anne gives to her dad in the sense of, you get clips of her crying, but then they don't draw it out in a way where I would start crying. I really didn't cry at all in the movie. I am a huge crier. I am just the worst. I fall apart very easily. And so that didn't really happen for me. And as far, I don't have any experience with dementia, but as far as I, you know, I can imagine that it's like watching your loved ones just die very, very slowly. And it's psychologically, it must be the most, I don't know, tormenting thing because they're here. You can touch them, you can feel them, right? You can hear them, but it's not the person that you grew up with, the person that you love. And so I think that's, that's, that must be the hardest thing to actually, to go through. Well, but maybe, and see, maybe that's where I think there's a difference between what the, the filmmakers wanted to do versus what maybe, what maybe you were probably, you know, I can, I get it. I probably have to say where, because you could, because I think, and it's probably a very hard movie to edit because they could have, maybe they had more from the perspective, because they had a few scenes from the perspective of say Anne or the Anne and the husband discussing and then it would go back to. So maybe they felt like, well, we could do a, not say another movie, all these movies, there's a lot of great movies dealing with mental illness and things where it's kind of a more objective stance where you just see how everyone's reacting and it does focus more on the people being affected and the person going through the, the decline in their faculties. But this one I think maybe they'll, well, maybe it's a, it's a bit of a, not a fresh take, but it's a different angle to really 98% focus on his perspective. Yeah. Which then means it's, it's, might lose a bit of its emotion in term because they can't really focus. They have to, there's only a little bit of Anne getting really upset by him forgetting her or being rude to her. And then it kind of cuts back to him being like looking for his watch. So it kind of cuts some of that, that I feel like ability to, to feel a lot of the emotion for her and feel really sad for the people getting negatively affected by him. But then it adds more kind of a, an element of putting you in the, the shoes of someone going through that. So you lose stuff and you gain different things depending on, you know, what object, what objective you want and what perspective you want to focus on, I guess. Yeah. And I mean, at the end of the day, it's true. We do not know what they were trying to accomplish. And so maybe they did accomplish what they wanted. Anthony Hopkins is incredible. Every single movie. Google. Thanks Google. Thanks Google. Yeah. So I mean, I think if the goal of the movie was to put you in the mind of someone who was suffering through dementia, did a fantastic job. I was really just perplexed the entire movie. My, my eyebrows were literally far out throughout the movie. Maybe that was the goal. Yeah. And if that was the goal, fantastic, really. I don't know. There's part of me that wishes it would have just, oh, you know, Yeah. I know you mean you wish it could be one that you want to just recommend to everybody, you know, like a perfect. Yeah. That's what I was kind of, so my expectations I think were set a little, maybe unfairly high. Yeah. Which a lot of times is what then makes you feel a little disappointed after whether or not that's even fair to the movie. That's why I don't like hearing people say like you got to see this or that. It's, you'll love it. Yeah. You don't know. Yeah. Let me just watch it and experience it. Yeah. And then I'll, I'll, I'll let it digest. Yeah. I'm not really sure what else to say. Yeah. For me, I would instead of, you know, for say anything it was 10 out of 10 really couldn't have anything to change about it. Yeah. With The Father, I give it an 8 out of 10 because I think generally it's it was well done in what it did. I think it just, for whatever reason, I don't know, you know, there's certain movies like, for instance, like Parasite. I didn't know what the hell was going to happen in that movie, but I'm glad everything happened the way it happened. The way it happened, yeah. Whereas with The Father, I, I don't know what was going to happen with that either, and I kind of wish it was a little different. Yeah. That's all. Yeah. I can't really articulate it any more concretely than that. Yeah. Yeah. That's all. So I'm just going to, I'll let you do. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you the honors. Okay. I'll give it an 8. I'll give it an 80%. Yeah. 8 ripe tomatoes. Yeah. I just want to have tomatoes now. Yeah. Yeah. You know, overall, I would say, like if someone approached me and was like, oh, you saw The Father, you know, I'd be like, check it out. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's definitely worth watching for several different things. It's worth watching for Anthony Hopkins. It's worth watching just for the, the idea of it and, and the, the overall story is compelling and everything. And it's worth watching for sure. That's what I give. Yeah. It's not my favorite movie. And I've seen other movies that I think just kind of hit their target a little more effectively. Yeah. Yeah. You know, if you like Anthony Hopkins, if you like Yeah. Dimension movies. Yeah. I don't know if that's a subgenre that you're looking for and what, then yeah, check it out. But, you know, that's just us. So, you know, if you've seen it. Let us know what you thought. Yeah. Put a rating in out of five stars or 10 stars or Michelin stars, three stars. Yeah. Out of 10. Rate this movie out of three Michelin stars. Out of 10, because you're rating it out of 10. I don't even know Michelin stars. Not Michelin stars, just out of 10. Out of the yardstick. Yeah, that's the yardstick. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks, people. Goodbye. Bye.