 sick. Hello everybody, E here. Back again with another movie review. I guess Monday's for movies now, since I can't seem to get these up on the weekend. I was gonna try to do like Sina Sunday, but no, I'm not gonna do anything on the weekend anymore. There's gonna be a blog post up about this later on, probably today. Yeah, it's Monday, so later on today. I'm actually filming this same day I'm uploading it because I have been wrecked this weekend. There's been community drama, there's been everybody in the house is either sick. We thought it was allergies, but now we're thinking that it's, you know, everybody's just sick. So I've had no time to do anything. But today we are talking about a ghost story. Landon will be cheering at this point because he sent me, he was kind enough to send me this, I think back during my birthday, or was it Christmas? I really, I can't remember dude. It was probably Christmas. I don't think it was that far back because my birthday's in August. Me and Shell watched this, and for the first half of the movie I was utterly bored out of my mind. I wanted to turn it off. I was like, of course this is, I mean, if this is Landon's favorite movie, me and Landon have polar opposite ideas of what's good and what's bad. For him he likes a bunch, he likes mostly weird and off-the-wall stuff, and I like weird and off-the-wall stuff as long as there's a point to it. Like in Dreamcatcher there's no point to the weird and off-the-wall shit. In this one I was worried that's where it was going, but then halfway through the movie there's a scene at a dining room table during a party, and it really struck me on a on a deep level several ways, because anyone who has read my work, my writing, for those of you who don't know I'm a writer, for those of you that have read the Bayes End series, it's almost the same exact thought process that went into my entire series as what is shared during this scene with the, with the main, in fact the entire theme of the the whole movie. It revolves around the idea that nothing ever really ends as long as someone remembers it, and that's kind of the glue that holds my universe together, period. And the same thing is mentioned in here. I don't want to go into too much detail because of spoilers, but after that I was far more invested into the movie. Now are most people going to like this? I have no idea. I have no idea what kind of reception this movie got. I don't know if it's well reviewed. I have no idea. It is a beautifully shot, very emotional story, but almost nothing happens throughout the whole thing. You are basically watching people react to grief, or you are watching people just living their normal lives. There's no action. There's no plot really. This is the epitome of an art house film because it all centers around the overarching theme. And then you get to the end and you're like okay, well that, I mean there's not even like a surprise at the end. You know, you pretty much know what's going to happen once the final scene pops up because you know how the movie began, that kind of thing. But not how the movie began, but a certain scene toward the beginning. The one thing that I will say is, I think Casey Affleck was completely wasted here. He does a great job being mundane. I mean he does a great job, but it literally anybody could have played this part because most of it is just shots of him, you know, just either listening to music that, I don't want to spoil anything, listening to music or lying in bed, that kind of thing. There is one bed scene that Rooney Mara and him do really, really well. It is a, it's not a sex scene, but it's both of them in bed and their reaction to each other. It looked like a loving couple together that maybe have some issues, but they're trying to work through it. That's probably the best part of the entire movie for me because of the, the, that one scene, and it's repeated again later on in the film. But that one scene is a terrific showcase of not, like I said, it's not sex, but it's two people being loving together even when they're maybe not the happiest with each other. Coming back together after a fight, you know, that kind of thing. Rooney Mara did an absolutely amazing job. There's a scene that stretches on forever for, and for, at a moment, this is the point that I, one of the times I almost turned it off until I realized what the director was going for. There's a scene with her eating pie and it seemingly goes on forever. And I, I kept on waiting for something to happen. If you go into this movie expecting a horror movie, you were going to be sorely disappointed. It is from the Studio A24, which is known for their horror movies, but they also do drama. And some of the best horror stories are dramas, but this is not a horror movie. This is a love story. This is a story about grief. This is a story about relationship. This is a story about the universe, the nature of the universe. It's a very deep, deep experience. And I think if I had known that before I went in, then I might have loved it more than I did. I liked it, but I'm not in love with it. So, but I don't hate it, Landon. So I guess that's a plus, right? Anyways, have you watched a ghost story? What did you think? Let me know down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another movie review, movie review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye. I almost didn't do this review. No joke. I almost, I was like, you know what? I'm just going to take this week and get the feeling better. But every single time I do, and this is, I guess it's kind of beside the point. I mean, it's not really a matter of, you know, monetization. I don't need it to live, but it is nice to have the extra money. The, uh, any time I go longer than two days, my, uh, the amount of money I make on the video seems to drop for some reason. I don't know what the algorithm is or how it works. So, uh, yeah, I'm out here, uh, I'm out here because of money. It seems funny. It seems, seems weird considering I started this channel, um, as fun. Um, and it's still fun. I mean, if it wasn't fun, I wouldn't be doing it. But, uh, I feel an obligation to, to the community and because I am making money off of this now. So I hope that makes sense. Anyways, uh, spoilers here, you're in the spoiler section. So spoilers. Um, yeah, uh, this, the whole nature of the universe, how no, how, as long as somebody remembers you, you're an immortal kind of deal and the circular nature of this, of the story, the way it all comes back and you see the ghost in the room with the ghost and you, you see that it is, it's just a constant loop. I did something like this in the bedding of boys, which is really fucking freaky because I, I literally, uh, I have a story about a, a ghost in a sheet, uh, called The Bedding of Boys. The title of the book is twofold. It literally means, you know, sex with boys. Uh, it's about a female pedophile, sex with boys, and literally this boy in this sheet, right? Um, or ghost boy, whatever you want to call it. You have to read the book to find out more. But, um, so it was really freaky to find my thoughts on the universe or my fictional thoughts on my universe, um, on, on screen and there being a monologue from this guy, um, who literally sounded like me talking about my, you know, my fictional universe. It was really, it was really odd and it took, it took me back a bit, but uh, yeah, that, that, I think that struck a chord with me and if it hadn't have been for that scene, I probably would have pretty much, you know, and, and the scene where they're laying in bed kissing, um, and just kind of holding on to each other like they're the last thing that they have on, on earth, but they, you know, it's not been perfect. So, um, but they, they still have each other to clean to. They, that was very, very moving for me, the scene in the bed. Other than that, I could have done without just about everything else in the movie. Sorry, it was a bunch of shots of people doing absolutely nothing. Um, the scene with Rooney Mara and the, am I saying that name right? Yeah, Rooney Mara, sitting in the kitchen eating pie. I mean, what is, how long is that scene? Sorry, how long is that scene? Like five minutes? I don't, I don't know. It's just her sitting on the, in front of the sink on the floor eating pie and it was boring as hell for like the first two or three minutes. I'm like, all right, come on. Get, get done. I understand you're trying to be artsy, fartsy and whatnot. And then all of a sudden I was very, very sad and I think that's what the, the director was shooting for, of course. I mean, it had to have been, not like he wanted you to laugh at her, but you got the ghost in the background and you got Rooney Mara sitting on the ground and she's, the tears are falling off into the pie that she's eating and she just demolishes the pie. It's like the more angry and grief-stricken she becomes the more she attacks the pie and I, I finally caught the theme of it. But other than that, it's basically just a movie with, you know, still shots of people doing nothing or people just being normal, like the Hispanic family, they're all sitting around the table or whatnot. It's just people doing everyday stuff and this ghost watching them. I mean, you have the, the dichotomy, but you have the duality, I think that's right, of the ghost and the camera, or the camera being the ghost, the ghost being the camera just sitting there and having to watch. And it's putting you in the place of the ghost, so it is thrusting you into that character's thoughts when that character has no dialogue, no, no narrative, nothing like that. So yeah, I liked it, but there was some, there was some issues with just being bored, honestly, and you can appreciate something pretty, but after a while, you know, I don't want to stare at a beautiful painting for two hours. That's not me. If that's you, fine. It's not me. But Landon, thank you for sending this. I appreciate you man. Until next time, I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye.