[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...of course, I’ll start it today as well...this is a good opportunity to watch it as I’ve dragged my heels a bit with it .....

I actually attempted to watch a stream of it before but it was a completely different movie under the name Parasite

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I actually attempted to watch a stream of it before but it was a completely different movie under the name Parasite

...so this is annoying...when I put the movie on, no subtitles come up so I have no idea what’s being said...but when I press trailer, it’s showing with subtitles...I don’t know if I’m meant to change a setting or something..

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...so this is annoying...when I put the movie on, no subtitles come up so I have no idea what’s being said...but when I press trailer, it’s showing with subtitles...I don’t know if I’m meant to change a setting or something..

There's a little icon on the top right that's shaped like a speech bubble (when the movie is playing), you can turn them on there

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

There's a little icon on the top right that's shaped like a speech bubble (when the movie is playing), you can turn them on there

...just worked it out......

[Vanessa]

It's on YouTube, but it's subtitled.
I don't mind.

[Niamh.]

Parasite

Spoiler:

That was totally not what I was expecting. I had it in my head that it was going to be about an uninvited guest who people can't get rid of, not like this which started out like a con job and changed to literally living underneath the house like a cockroach. Really different, the way they shot it, the scenes of the poor areas and sometimes how the poor people moved it made it seem like insects scrambling, crawling, going under ground. Then I thought it kind of had a happy ending (although I did wonder how exactly "Kevin" had made all that money) but no, that was just a dream I guess the dad will live and die alone down there.

But yeah a really great film, really strong visual images of the massive differences in society as a whole between different classes of people

I guess you could say that the two poor families were being parasites but also are the Parks the parasites really, using the lower classes to make them their money

[Ammi]

......I’m so behind because I’m finding it hard to focus on the text atm but I’ve watched around as hour, I’ll try to finish it later...I am really enjoying it, though...it’s quite clever atm...


...it’s lovely that you’re watching it as well, Vanessa.....

[Ammi]

...I didn’t look at your spoiler yet, Niamh...

[Ammi]

....Parasite...

Spoiler:

...wow, that really wasn’t what I thought, either....the first half seemed really slick and quite comedic, the way that they ‘took over’ the Parks house and were all employed with good jobs and incomes etc...from barely having anything to eat to starting to create a life for themselves and really turning their lives around..but it started to become more and more dark...I hated how Mr Park kept saying there was a ‘smell’ when he was speaking about another person and because of the sting bugs in their infested home..and yeah, they were all quite ‘parasitic’ I think, Niamh...the Kim’s obviously living off the Parks but the Parks also being fairly helpless without the Kim’s and relying on them completely for most aspects of their lives, even the care of their own children...that family living in such squalid conditions who all carried that same ‘stink bug smell’ that repelled Mr Parks so much...?...were more capable as a family unit of careers than the Parks were in their luxury....
I don’t know, as awful and as bloody and brutal as it all got, I really still rooted for the Kim’s and wanted that ending to be real and for them to live peacefully in that house together again......such a thought provoking film, I loved it but it was obviously very sad...to have everything can be just as ‘poor’ or even more poor than having nothing at all...

[Ammi]

...Escape from Pretoria....another excellent movie...

Spoiler:

...obviously the plot line is in the title, it’s a prison break movie based on another true story... Daniel Radcliffe plays an anti-apartheid activist in the 70’s who engineers a prison break by whittling and whittling and carving away to duplicate a wooden master key to unlock all of the internal doors and the one external door needed to reach the outside world and reach freedom, it’s incredibly tense and incredibly well done...it feels as though they have endless doors to open and get through....and ughhhh, all of the almost caught moments with the prison guards, some points of it I could barely breathe....and even when they did break out, I still thought they may have been recaptured so a glorious ending in terms of their escape...so sad though, that he didn’t get to see his girlfriend ever again but wonderful that they continued with their fight against apartheid.......

[Niamh.]

Just turned it on now

[Ammi]

...I think you’ll love it and so will Gav......

[Niamh.]

Spoiler:

I must have missed the bit at the start saying this was a true story and Gav asked me during it was it a true story a d I was like, I doubt it, there's no way that would work so i was really shocked when I found out it was. Absolutely amazing story. That last 20 mins or so at the end was so tense. Loved it, good call Ammi

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Spoiler:

I must have missed the bit at the start saying this was a true story and Gav asked me during it was it a true story a d I was like, I doubt it, there's no way that would work so i was really shocked when I found out it was. Absolutely amazing story. That last 20 mins or so at the end was so tense. Loved it, good call Ammi

Spoiler:

...it was so, so tense and I can’t recall how many days it had taken in the end to do all of the trial runs etc once the keys were made...but the prison guard was a bit dopey as well, they could have just knocked him out and stolen his real keys and escaped right at the beginning...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Spoiler:

...it was so, so tense and I can’t recall how many days it had taken in the end to do all of the trial runs etc once the keys were made...but the prison guard was a bit dopey as well, they could have just knocked him out and stolen his real keys and escaped right at the beginning...

Spoiler:

if it was a woman's prison they'd have been out after 2 days Ammi

[Ammi]

Spoiler:

......

...The Sisters Brothers and Paper Lives both look interesting as well after we’ve watched the Rental, they’re worth checking out, I think...

[Ammi]

Youtube video

Youtube video

[Ammi]

...and for a really light one, there’s Yes Day...a day of saying yes to everything your children ask for a day...

Youtube video

[Ammi]

...also, Into the Wild is on Netflix atm .....if anyone is up for a rewatch...

[Niamh.]

Eddie Vedder did the sound track for Into the wild

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...also, Into the Wild is on Netflix atm .....if anyone is up for a rewatch...

I haven't seen that in years!

[Ammi]

...I’m fine fo an Into the Wild rewatch if that’s wanted...

[Niamh.]

Yeah fine with me too

[Ammi]

...Into the Wild next or Rental or...?...

[Niamh.]

Whichever I don't mind