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High Low Brow
Heartache & Havoc: Unpacking Love Lies Bleeding and Monkey Man
We kick off this week's episode by chatting about Anthony Kiedis's omission in his memoir Scar Tissue of an eyebrow-raising relationship with a 14-year-old (wait, what??) and how Logan (aka the cucumber guy on TikTok) has taken over our entire feed.
But this week, we're watching some of the new films to hit Amazon Prime, including "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Monkey Man". While our opinions of Love Lies Bleeding are mixed (and apparently we're not alone in these feelings), we see how the film offers a unique appeal for fans of strong female leads and complex narratives. Dev Patel's Monkey Man is giving us big John Wick vibes, with a trans sub-plot. With its blend of revenge, transformation, and heartfelt subplots, we couldn't help but love it.
Tune in and don't forget to tune in next week where we'll have a special episode dedicated entirely to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Welcome to High Low Brow, the show with highbrow takes on lowbrow culture. I'm your one host, Amanda Scriver.
Speaker 2:And I'm just a teenage dirtbag in their 30s River Gilbert.
Speaker 1:Aw, it is true. Wow, read me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:I mean you listen to pop punk. You have three skateboards.
Speaker 2:Dude, that song has not aged well. It's like the incel anthem.
Speaker 1:I mean, I haven't listened to it recently and nor have I dissected the lyrics, but I believe you. I'm not gonna dispute it when it's right, it's right. When it's right, it's right most things that we grew up with did not age well.
Speaker 2:Did not age well Like Pop punk, chief among them.
Speaker 1:Was it you that told me this, that Anthony Kiedis in their memoir that they had slept with a 14 year old? Yes, I told you about that. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:The crazy thing is his memoir has been out for literally decades. Yeah, we've known about this since, like the early 2000s, it's like I guess, we just started caring about statutory like yeah I, I don't know, man, like I didn't read it I didn't either I didn't know.
Speaker 1:But then you told me and I was like wait, wait that seems like not a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it'd be. I was gonna say it'd be worse news if the chili peppers didn't suck, but like it's still bad news.
Speaker 1:It's just bad news. Yeah, it feels like we're so hyper online now. And things just spread very quickly yeah whereas before in like back in the back in the 90s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the 90s.
Speaker 1:It was the 90s like the internet was, was not as big as a thing then. Yeah, so you know, sleeping with a 14 year old just felt like you know a thing that you could do and it was bad, but like not as many people could find out. Again, I'm not saying that's a thing that you should do.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying that, yeah, I get you. I think you know what I'm saying. I'm picking up what you're putting down. We are not Anthony Kiedis apologists.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not at all. I'm, I'm not. This is not my guidebook to being like, and here's how yeah, yep, yep, uh.
Speaker 2:Hey, emma, what's making your brain go burr this week?
Speaker 1:uh, it was funny because before we started recording, I'm like we need to figure out what's making our brain go burr and I can't bring up dog of wisdom because, literally, you talked about that on the last yeah, I mean it's fair, I almost had dog wisdom again because of the dog of wisdom, because literally you talked about that on the last episode.
Speaker 2:I mean it's fair, I almost had dog wisdom again because of the dog of wisdom.
Speaker 1:Hanuman, kind mashup you sent me yeah, but I was like I can't believe I didn't talk about this in the last episode. Logan tiktok sometimes you just gotta eat an entire cucumber, oh which? Which literally, I think like if you have not seen those TikToks, I think if we were early on the trend, but it's literally a guy in his kitchen with his mandolin and a liter container and a fucking cucumber and he's just making a cucumber salad with a bunch of random ingredients and ingredients yeah msg obviously msg, obviously yeah
Speaker 1:the merch merch sells itself well, somebody did a breakdown on tiktok about, because he, like, he links to those leader containers, he links to a mandolin, he links to like, the, the, the like, very random, like the things that he mentions in his videos. He links to them in his TikTok shop and they're like, or his Amazon shop or whatever. And on that alone, because Logan is from Canada.
Speaker 2:therefore, we no, creator fund no creator fund On that alone.
Speaker 1:Let's say, only like half of the people who watch his videos go out and buy a mandolin. Go out and buy like whatever he is making. Bank on that.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, absolutely Bananas. He is making bank. Oh my god, absolutely bananas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I I'm I'm glad that whenever canadian creators get some money, that's lovely to see, yeah, I think I was most shocked because when I picked up that he was canadian was when I saw I think it was like PC mushrooms or something like I saw.
Speaker 2:I saw a PC brand and I was like no, galen Weston yeah, yeah, someone's apparently not still on board with the the PC boycott.
Speaker 1:but I was like, do not get to him. And I sent it to a friend of mine who works at the LCL, the Loblaws headquarters, and I was just like, have you seen this? And they were like yeah, and I said that we should work with him and I was told that that didn't make any sense. And then, literally not even a week later, sephora started working with Logan and I died because half of the people who used to work on our team at LCL went and worked at Sephora.
Speaker 1:so I was like, oops, missed opportunity yeah, no kidding so yeah, logan, and just like I saw last night that lizzo made one of logan's recipes, so I was like I love, I love seeing this yeah, I love to see it, we love to see it.
Speaker 2:We love eating entire cucumbers we grew our own cucumber yeah, diy cucumbers. Yeah. What's making my brain go?
Speaker 1:burr you ask? I would love to know. Please tell me.
Speaker 2:Are you on Chase? Infinite Money, glitch Talk.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, you mean just do crimes Bank fraud. Just literal bank fraud talk.
Speaker 2:For those of you who aren't in the know, there is this brief period of time where people are like, oh my God, you can write yourself a check, deposit it online, go to a Chase account, withdraw that money and then close the account and then you just get that money. It's the infinite money glitch. Spoiler alert this is one of the oldest financial scams in existence. It's called kiting and you can face up to a million dollars in charges and I believe it's 30 years in jail. Yeah, it's. It is like high tier fraud and people like chase is obviously getting their money back and taking it back from people. I saw somebody who was $31 billion.
Speaker 1:Not billion.
Speaker 2:With a, b. Oh, my god yeah. I'm just like, oh my god. So like I'm not on Infinite Glitch Talk, I'm on Critique of Infinite Glitch Talk, and it is just like I'm not on infinite glitch talk, I'm on critique of infinite glitch talk, and it is just like.
Speaker 1:I just, I just Like how do people actually think they're going to get away with this? Like I get it, we should all take down the system, sure, and fuck the man, sure, and like we're all trying to survive and thrive under capitalism, but also like you can't actually believe that that's going to work right, Literally.
Speaker 2:That's the thing it's like. How.
Speaker 1:Things like that. Billions of dollars Money cannot just be stolen from bank.
Speaker 2:It just does not work like that Not usually, not by the average joe anyways. So yeah, that's, uh, that's making my brain go bare this week I mean kudos fraud talk kudos mama for frauding.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, we, we have been blessed in the last little bit for films that have come to streaming, specifically Prime. I mean, yeah, prime's been killing it lately. They have been killing it or they've been at least trying, they've been doing their best thank you, jeffery, thanks Papa Jeff that's what all of our prime dollars have been going to yes, licensing uh better movies yeah, they're like. You know, we inserted advertisements, but we're trying to get you better films.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because for a while it was, it was like bad, like just, I mean it's bad, it's still bad, it's not great. But then we watched two movies in the past week and they were both. I thought one of them was very good, you didn't much care for it, and the other one I think we thought both thought was great. Let's talk about the less good one. Yes, first. Uh, so we saw love lies bleeding, because we did not see that in theaters?
Speaker 1:Well, we should tell the story about how we attempted to go see it in theaters and then did not.
Speaker 2:How did we?
Speaker 1:attempt to go see it in theaters. I will recount, did I?
Speaker 2:have a nervous breakdown. Yeah yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we bought tickets. We were supposed to go.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that bought tickets. We were supposed to go.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, that was that movie, wasn't it? It was that, oh my god, I was having bad dysphoria that day, I think you were, you were having something I was having something yeah, you were not living your best life.
Speaker 2:I was, I was survived, I was barely surviving, not thriving yeah, and because I love you said. Because you love live bleeding I see what you did there.
Speaker 1:I was like, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we finally got to see that.
Speaker 1:Although not in the theaters. It's okay, we were going to go see it at a cheap theater anyways, not with the plush seats, not VIP, no reclining, just standard seating, satophobic seating. Yeah, so it's fine. I'm totally fine that we did not go into the theaters to see it, but seeing it at home, however many, I think it's been like a year I don't think it's been a year, I think it's been months. Feels like a year.
Speaker 2:I mean internet time year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I will say, this internet time year, yeah, but I will say this when it came out, I did have a bunch of friends who did go and see it in the theater and I do believe that I told you this when it came out. We were gonna go see it. A lot of people that went and saw it in the theater they were like it was very mid, it was not giving yeah, I, I.
Speaker 2:I do think it was less about the giving and more about the introduction, reintroduction of muscle mommies to the lesbian lexicon no, I think people, just the people who went and saw it, were like oh, I'm not talking about the quality of the film. I'm just just talking about, sure. The quality is less important, as is the swole women doing muscular things.
Speaker 1:Sure, I mean, okay, yeah, most people that I know that went and saw the film were like it was mid and I did not enjoy it. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean. However, the reviews online were very opposite to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think it was done by Rose Glass, who did Saint Maud, so this was her second film. I loved Saint Maud.
Speaker 1:I've never seen it, so I can't.
Speaker 2:Very, very different movie. Okay, but had I known her vibe check going into this, I think I would have experienced and you probably would have experienced it in a different way. She apparently was like, hey, the vibe is showgirls. I want this movie to be the same as showgirls. Okay, and painted in that light I'm like, yeah the same as Showgirls, okay. And painted in that light, I'm like, yeah, that makes a lot more sense. I get that more. Yeah, we should talk about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, like, isn't that what we're doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So Crash Course for people who are not in the know. It's about a woman who works at a gym.
Speaker 1:Who is Kristen Stewart? Who is Kristen Stewart, looking her very beyond self.
Speaker 2:Yep and a bodybuilder comes into town and she's with a plan of going to a Vegas competition.
Speaker 1:Yes, and she has hitchhiked into the town where kristen stewart character lives and it's just about the relationship that they have.
Speaker 2:We're gonna say spoilers now, because there's something that happens 40 minutes in and that we have to talk about, because if we don't, we can't talk about the movie. Uh, kristen stewart's sister in the film is in an abusive relationship.
Speaker 1:Yes, with Dave Franco Dave.
Speaker 2:Franco, and he ends up hospitalizing her.
Speaker 1:The girlfriend's bodybuilder goes and kills, kills him oh, you're going like right in there oh yeah yeah, you're going like right to the end well, that I mean that happened 40 minutes in you. That's like the inciting incident, yeah I mean, I thought we were going to talk about the dad.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, ed harris plays the dad yeah, and who has a?
Speaker 1:the skullet was so, so clutch yeah, and like the bodybuilder girl, like Kristen Stewart's girlfriend, she has sex with Kristen Stewart's.
Speaker 2:Brother-in-law.
Speaker 1:Brother-in-law on the first night that she comes to town, not realizing that, like that's her brother-in-law. She does it to get a job yeah, and what she doesn't also realize is that where she has gotten her job is actually Kristen Stewart's dad's like gun range, yeah, gun range it's all very like I was, like we also should that's the background, yeah like it's all very messy and it's incestuous, it's like I guess we should probably use their names to make it a little less confusing.
Speaker 2:Kristen stewart is character's name is lou, the bodybuilder who is a like martial arts person, slash stunt actress, irl. I think this is her like breakout role kind of. Uh, her name's jackie. Dave franco's character is jj and ed harris's character is lou yeah senior. So yeah, after jj hospitalizes lou's sister, jackie goes and kills jj.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in like a over-the-top gory way yeah that scene where she like she curb, stomps him on the coffee table yeah, now, one thing that we have forgotten to mention is that they, they have been shooting up steroids oh yeah, jackie has been doing a ton of steroids yeah so I think, jackie, when she finds out that her sister or sorry, lou's sister is in the hospital and she sees how upset she is because she sort of alluded to like how terrible things have been, and yada y, she goes into this like protection mode Of I have to take care of this, but she's in a roid rage, yeah.
Speaker 2:Go on. So Lou wakes up in the hospital Because she's fallen asleep there with her sister. Decides to go home. Notices her keys are missing Because Jackie has taken her truck yeah, calls a. Decides to go home. Notices her keys are missing because jackie has taken her truck. Yeah, calls a cab to go home and drives past their house. Sees her car there and says, hey, just let me out here. Then goes in to find a very dead jj and jackie just crying in the shower. So then lou enters protection mode and then they have to clean up the body. They drive to like a site where spoiler, lou's dad dumps all of his dead bodies. But in the meantime they're spotted by I don't want to say girlfriends, but somebody that is infatuated with Lou named.
Speaker 2:Daisy. I love Daisy. Daisy is so baby girl. Everything just accelerates. Jackie ends up going to Lou senior to get help cleaning things up and he's like, okay, I'll help you, but you gotta take care of Daisy. Lou, meanwhile, is sleeping with Daisy to like, keep her from talking about what's going on. Jackie shows up, kills Daisy, fast forward right till the end and it's like this showdown between Lou Senior and Lou, because Lou is like I'm gonna fucking take this guy out Because he's ruined my life and he's is. It doesn't go according to plan. Lou senior has like, is stepping on her head and ready to kill her. Jackie turns into a giant woman, picks up Lou senior and then they both turn into giant women and run through the night. The ending ending lost me.
Speaker 1:You had, me you had me. And then you lost me.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And there's, like some things that we skipped in there, of course, there's lots of little things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think sort of the thing with the film for me was I was just kind of like the story is good and I can see what they're trying to do here, but it feels like it's not fully baked and I wish there was more here, but it's not quite there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as a pastiche of Showgirls, I think it succeeded. Yeah, as a pastiche of showgirls, I think it succeeded. But I fully agree, because my same criticisms of showgirls are my criticisms of Love Lies Bleeding.
Speaker 1:Well, if I had to like, I liked showgirls. Oh, showgirls was great. Showgirls is so campy, yeah, but like. This is not giving me the same campiness, Less camp or the same sort of like anything that showgirls gave me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And like yeah, I just don't see them on the same vibe or wavelength.
Speaker 2:That's so fair, like it had the same disjointedness as showgirls and these random plot lines that you're like. Huh well, that just sort of happened at me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I was like cool, there's like a lot of family drama and like trauma and all of these things, and like Lou wants to get away because her dad is trafficking guns and killing people but feels trapped because you can't, and it's like there's there was so much there to draw from, yeah, but it just didn't feel like it went anywhere that's fair.
Speaker 2:Like I thought that there was enough clever stuff. Like I was like oh, it's very like interesting that they were like up in arms about the domestic abuse happening between a heterosexual couple but then like Jackie straight up, punches Lou and like tries to kill her. It's one of those like oh, it's an interesting double standard, right Talking about the codependencies and queer relationships.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talking about the codependencies and queer relationships. Yeah, and I think we also talked about that too, where we were like this relationship is toxic.
Speaker 2:Toxic. From the time that Jackie was like Lou makes her breakfast after they sleep together. And Jackie's like, yeah, that's great, but yeah, next time take the egg yolks out maybe. And I'm like, oh, that's a red flag.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, it was just like I'm not sure what this film is trying to communicate to me. I'm not sure, like the fact that they're like running off together and they're like the relationship we are going to be together. And I'm like, are they saying that, like, everything is better now, like, and that they are perfect together? Because I have questions, like they are giving red flag, I know see, I saw that because the that was the penultimate scene.
Speaker 2:The final scene is daisy is not actually dead and then the blue dregs are off and kills her. Yes, so that that to me just says spoke more to like oh, you're showing the codependent nature. It's like it looks good on the surface but underneath it it is deeply toxic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, better or worse than long legs in your books I mean, I think, I think I said that it was no better, no worse I agree I think, it's a solid six.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I and like, depending on the day, I'd go maybe 6.5, maybe 5.5. Yeah, it's plus or minus log legs yeah, I I'm not mad that I saw it I'm glad that I experienced it I wouldn't watch it again no, I wouldn't either if, like somebody was, hey, we're having a party, we're watching Love Lies Bleeding, I would go.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's not like I'm not running out to buy it.
Speaker 1:I'm very happy that we did not go and see it in theaters.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know what I am happy that we saw and I would have seen it in theaters. Is it monkey man? It is monkey man. And here's the thing is that, like so many people that I know who are from a certain dysphoria, went and saw the film when it actually came out and we're like this film is incredible it looked amazing from the get go, like I.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh my god, this is indian john wick. Like I'm fucking all about this. And then it was like produced by jordan peele, and I'm like, oh yeah holy shit yeah, and it, it, basically, it basically was.
Speaker 1:Indian John Wick With trans like overtones, yeah literally, I was like I want more of this.
Speaker 2:I know like legitimately.
Speaker 1:Dev Patel was like.
Speaker 2:Wrote directed starred.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like 10 out of 10. Dev Patel like give it to me.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Like if we're comparing monkey man to john wick, like he he can take. Oh, I would love to see a dev patel keanu reeves matchup oh my god, throw for dev patel into yeah make it happen, yeah so it's about this kid from like mumbai-esque not actually mumbai, but like fictional.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's the gotham of, and he is a fighter in this underground cage-matchy wrestling kind of thing, and he wears a monkey mask.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think his monkey mask is based off of Hanuman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think part of the story is that that was a. Was it a legend or something that his mom would tell him when he was younger?
Speaker 2:yeah he's. He's like a deity in hinduism, yeah it has been years since my religions yeah, courses so.
Speaker 1:But I think the the rationale for why he chose that as sort of like his persona, persona, yeah, was because, when he was younger, he lived in a village that was targeted by police and on behalf of the Modi figure because, uh, hey, guess what monkey man is a criticism of Modi and guess what?
Speaker 2:Dev Patel doesn't much care for the man yeah, spoiler this.
Speaker 1:This film has anti-money yeah, yeah, big, yeah, so and in the beginning we we learned that he has burned hands.
Speaker 2:Yes, we don't know why. We just know that his hands are burned yeah so it go.
Speaker 2:He's like I need more money. And he's like, oh, you gotta bleed. But you're not. You can't bleed because you're wearing a monkey mask. So he starts working his way up and we're like what's he doing? Why is he trying to earn money? Turns out he's trying to earn money as well as get revenge on the chief of police who oversaw the burning of his village. Casual, super casual. So we watch him make his way into this company where his wife works. His wife.
Speaker 1:No, he makes his way into this company where he sort of like there was someone, another woman from the village where he grew up.
Speaker 2:Did she work there?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought. Sorry, I'm talking about the manager who works in the the main level and she he works under her yeah, I don't think they were in a relationship. I think, I think I just saw a photo of him in their office and I was like oh, I guess they're like buds or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yes, they may have been related or they may have.
Speaker 2:We don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't actually get into what that relationship looks like yeah.
Speaker 2:So Dev Patel works his way into this company, begins working his way up, purchases a gun, trains a dog to bring him said gun so he can get past security with it. Makes friends with a guy who's like, yeah, you can come work in the vip. Works in the vip. Works his way into the cocaine room where he's like, okay, cool, I'm going to give the, the cocaine laced with bleach to the chief of police so when he goes to the bathroom I can fucking kill him yeah. Doesn't go that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, turns into a John Wick situation.
Speaker 2:John Wick situation.
Speaker 1:And then he basically has to murder everyone in this club.
Speaker 2:Oh, before he doesn't, though, he has to run out of the club first.
Speaker 1:Well, he, he does a lot of murders, but then, yes, he has to run out of the club and then he has to go into hiding for a bit.
Speaker 2:Because he is very injured and almost dying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then he gets taken in.
Speaker 2:So he's rescued by a community of Hedra, which are apparently a like third gender slash transgender communities in India.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, they just sort of take him in, take him into this temple that they're like.
Speaker 2:They have their own community in.
Speaker 1:And they start training him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when that happened and the matriarch Alpha, I was like I looked at because she was like took special interest in him and was like trying to coach him through stuff. And she's like we're warriors and like here's this thing and you have to be weak enough to let it work its magic. If it's strong enough to survive it, he has this trip, yeah, which revitalizes him, and yeah, then he just starts training.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think when that scene was happening I was like wait, is Monkey man trans allegory yeah, I was like is monkey man trans I was like, oh my god, I.
Speaker 2:I was like it would be so funny if this was just transgender, mr miyagi, and spoilers. It's kind of transgender, mr miyagi, genuinely wonderful yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1:It was just like so like nobody told me that was coming, no, and I was like wait what we were.
Speaker 2:oh, this is a lovely little surprise. Yeah, this is a little treat for us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love this, love this for us.
Speaker 2:So Monkey man, rejuvenated, is like okay, cool, I am going to go get revenge now.
Speaker 1:I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Take two, put me in. Put me in, coach, we find out on his. Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself we find out on his trans drug trip that the his village was burned and set fire to, and the reason that his he's got the burns on his hands is because the chief of police found his mother, poured gasoline on her and lit her on fire. Yeah, and he tried to save her, yeah. So yeah, we, we suddenly get the insight into where where dev's character is coming from he, he has some trauma he has some trauma it could explain some reasons why he wants to kill this man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just a bit he.
Speaker 2:So he bleaches his monkey man mask to look more like hanuman. Yeah, which is sick. Bleach seems to be like a theme in the movie yep I. I'm like, cool, is it about cleaning up? Cleaning up corruption? I don't know anyways, where's it for all of two seconds and then just takes it off well, and also I'm not sure if you were going to mention this, but he wants to.
Speaker 1:He says that he's gonna. He leaves a note for, like the community, for the village that was like taking care of them, because the police, the sort of like politicians they're, they're sort of like plotting to come and sort of shut down this community they don't own the temple they live in and they want to take it for themselves.
Speaker 2:So dev patel's character goes and makes the return of monkey man fights a match where he's like I'm the strongest yeah, he gets gets a kid to banish all the money from the offering box on him, then leaves a backpack full of money for them yeah, so they have all this money they got all this money and they're like oh, thank god, we're we good, yeah, we good, and then that sort of sets the journey on the next steps of his what's happening.
Speaker 1:Which also, at that fight, was the, the guy who he used to work in the vip with oh, yay, I thought you're talking about the dude from district nine no his, his buddy who helped helped him get the job in the v the cocaine and he was like wait, is this Monkey man? Yeah, and he was like Monkey man, Monkey.
Speaker 2:Man.
Speaker 1:He was like it's my bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm here for him. Yeah, so the next 20 minutes are just Dev Patel murdering everyone from the ground floor all the way up to the penthouse suite. Yeah, but midway through he encounters this impossible John Wick situation where he's like there are 50 people here, enter the Hedras, like fully garbed out with swords, and then they help him out. Yeah, he's got like a little personal army of trans allies. We all need those sometimes. Yeah, this is my friend, valentina. She's an ally. Talk, valentina, ally, ally.
Speaker 1:Honestly like it was a perfect film. I really honestly hope that they make it into like if that was the only one. Totally fine.
Speaker 2:A hundred percent.
Speaker 1:Like I would not be mad about it. But if they make it into a series like John Wick, I would also not be mad about it Well, spoilers he dies at the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so a little tough.
Speaker 1:A little tough, Sure, but like you know've, they've figured. Maybe he regenerates.
Speaker 2:I don't know there's very little supernatural I mean in this film.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I, I get you hollywood finds a way.
Speaker 2:Hollywood finds a way. Better than out of 10, what would you give it? 10 I think I agree. I I I was hesitant, I was like maybe nine and a half, but I'm like yeah, I think it's a 10, like it's.
Speaker 1:It's so fucking good, please go see this film yeah, like if we are okay out of all the films that we have watched this year, I would say it's close to like exuma, like yeah I I would put in top three for sure I'm like exuma.
Speaker 2:I saw the tv glow monkey man probably yeah, and if you put it above, I saw the tv glow.
Speaker 2:That's fine, but because that was a film just for me, yeah, that was a little river treat, yeah, but like yeah, I was just like it was so fucking good it was so good I'm so, I'm so sad we didn't see it earlier and yeah, because we've been meaning to go see it in theaters, because we saw what the first, the last. We didn't see the first John Wick in theaters, but I think we saw two, three and four in theaters.
Speaker 1:And that was a fantastic time. Yeah, yeah, so I'm really happy we saw it and you should watch it on Prime.
Speaker 2:Definitely.
Speaker 1:It's amazing, it's so good, it's yeah, yeah, better than Long Legs. Better than Love Lies Bleeding.
Speaker 2:Definitely better than Love Lies Bleeding yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it's also isn't it. Is it shorter?
Speaker 2:I can't remember it's two hours, but it does the same thing john wick does where it's like. Well, except for four. Four was, four was different yeah it where it feels like it's going on forever in the best way possible. Yeah, that's true. So like yeah, two hours time well spent, wonderful, lovely little trans side story without being like. This is a film about being trans. It's just like no it's trans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know yeah I think that's it.
Speaker 2:I think that's the episode.
Speaker 1:We are super excited because our next episode is we're going to tiff. Tiff is happening. Yeah, we're gonna go.
Speaker 2:We only got tickets to three films, so that's despite trying to get tickets to eight films and it should be noted that. Well, we never applied to be media at tiff, but I am a member of tiff's and that's still all we were able to get, so even with advanced purchasing advanced purchasing and then trying to purchase on day of so, and the prices for this year were bananas, like one of the tickets cost $90 a piece, which is bananas.
Speaker 1:So you know we'll have three reviews for you. Absolutely, we're not going to spoil what we're going to see. You're just going to have to get that treat when you get it.
Speaker 2:We will also likely. By the time you're listening to this, we should have our Hooptober list complete and we'll probably also start talking about some of that. Yeah, we love you. Oh yeah, where to find us? Hey, where can the folks find us?
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