I enjoy how his pronunciations, especially when it comes to foreign films and names, are on point.

@@TechnicJunglist absolutely! I admire that about him as well!

I agree with you completely 💯 but I just couldn't put it into words. Thanks.

@@robindick2802 Glad 😊

True feminist here lol it’s just a movie calm down

@@bpswank429 it is just a movie and I would've agreed to disagree if some guy didn't actually claimed that somehow men were the victims in this situation or that he actually knew what women wanted. That just couldn't go without comment!

@@SLKnoxx shut up

100%!!

Or it's criticizing a bad movie and just because it's about a SA survivor doesn't mean its very good or even well-written

@@crater044 but the specific critic that I’m referring is one where they said “I just don’t think a girl who’s been through what’s she’s been through would be acting so tough and unbothered, rather than emotional or sensitive. They can have whatever critiques that they want about the quality of the film. That comment is comments similar made in this review are what im responding to and I think that it’s rather disgusting that you felt so compelled to play devils advocate on this comment considering the topic and context.

@@Anonymous-im9ob agreed

@@crater044 every woman in these comments appreciates the movie and understood it…they obviously didn’t get it coz they aren’t women or thinking about the issues we face

I felt the movie went pretty explicit with it in her conversation with Luke at the end, when she reuses the "wind up doll" line, first we heard it as a snarky line at the start of the movie, as something she has over people, being able to manipulate them, and it comes back as a tragedy of never allowing herself to be who she is or even learning who that is.

@@yeelahowah7476 you mean the friend who literally shot a kid in the face minutes before handing her a gun? That was obviously part of her trauma, having to deal with that. But the movie is not really about that. They could have left that scene out and the story wouldn’t have changed much.

Yeah I actually didn’t read the book so I thought it was going to turn out that she was a shooter some how .. but no I think it was all the trauma flashbacks that confused me . With the school shooting and the rapes .. it didn’t exactly work for me unless she was some how involved because I kept wondering why the mass shooting happened without the guys actual back stories .. to much going on . The rape part did affect me but that’s because a lot of women have been assaulted and I do feel like it gets blown off as their fault . Then again there are also women that lie that have ruined the whole believe women movement .

I think it did good job of showing how it affected her current view of life, i. e super focused on wealth. Also, the relationship between her and the fiance was shown during the scene they were going to make love. She got very aggressive with him and when he wanted to slow down, she panicked. That is a textbook example of a rape survivor. They don't know how to engage in love making in a healthy way.

@@a-train3503 I think that was the point she’s been putting on a perfect act of how ppl want her to be but her childhood led to this aka a huge effect

from the beginning i knew it would be Arthur but i was surprised about Ben

I agree with you! I mean the “looking polished” thing was the entire point! She even said it herself in one of her flashbacks. She wanted to look like a woman that demands respect just by the way she looked. She said she starved herself, got a breast reduction, got herself fancy clothes; all to be this small, slender, yet super sophisticated woman. To be this woman people respected. To be a woman people believed.

i still have hope in humanity thanks to both

People often use snark to cover their trauma. It's either making snarky "jokes" or sobbing and you think if you start crying, you'll never stop. I totally got the snark

@@heatherstarling1653 they are both bad it’s not just sex her stabbing Arthur because he was killing people not just the rapist but she also said she resented herself for killing him

Thank you!

Yeah ! I was like oh great pushing a skinny no eating agenda .. I defiantly thought that part was odd ..

@@Kwildcat13 they wasn’t pushing an agenda on that the movie shows that she felt her more matured body when she was younger made her feel like it was her fault so she wanted to slim down they even said she had a breast reduction

those scenes were so interesting actually

Thats how i feel. I liked it. It was fine. It was just a movie i feel did the bare minimum. But despite the emotionally impactful thematic material, it doesnt really translate to an emotional impact on screen. Its yet another adapation that is giving me vibes of "its okay, but it probably would have been more enjoyable as a book" as a whole its just kind of forgettable. Not bad, but meh.

@@Allgloss312 for real. I felt it needed different actors maybe? it also could have explored more, I felt it left certain things undone, messy, not tidy. and I don’t know…..color me crazy but….. I just wasn’t all that impressed with kunis. Honestly tho I thought the younger version of kunis’s character killed it.

@@StormyLynn724 yes! Everytime it cut to the past i was like 😯then everytime mila was on screen i was more like 😐 there was a huge disconnect between the two actors and it felt like i was watching two seoerate characters and story arcs unfold, but not in a good way. Mila Kunis is a fine actress. Fine in the sense of shes okay. But in a movie dealing with SA and trauma.... idk im not buying it 😬also i feel like the switches between her past and present self were quite jarring, also not in a good way. The script needed work. The directing needed work. The acting. The editing. Lol despite how critical i am of it i did get some enioyment but i felt like the quite interesting premise was wasted on mediocre filmmaking.

@@Allgloss312 well said my friend! Honestly I felt like the violence of a SA would have left the character way more edgy, less polished. I know that’s how the director felt the character should be but I didn’t buy it either. I loved the way Chiaria played the younger version, I thought she did sooo well but like you said, as soon as it switched to modern day kunis, I was like nah, I don’t see any semblance of the two meshing at all. I know the character was supposed to be forging this life she thought she should have or the person she thought she would be I mean I get the premise for why he was going for that but kunis’s just didn’t pull it off. I wasn’t convinced at all. I thought there was so much left out as to how she got from younger kunis’s to present day just really not a good transition. And the thing is you know like, ok, I’m 62 now OK but 40 years ago I also had an rather violent event happen to me at 22. I’ll tell you that it changes you….in drastic ways…not all bad…but it changes you….and based on what I know about that, I soooo felt her character should have been better written, not to mention, maybe even someone else to play that part. I felt there was so much left out about that just based on what I know about myself and what I went through I just feel like I might not even have gotten this story really if I didn’t have my own do you know what I’m saying? It was just that lean on details… I thought I was the only person who felt unsatisfied after the movie but the more comments I read I’m realizing I’m not alone. It was an ok movie like you said…but it certainly wasn’t great and didn’t make me feel like I had watched something with a message in it….it fell short for me. There was just so much more to have been explored I thought. Even the actual assault I felt was so underplayed and not really clear exactly who, how and all that…. Like I sort of felt like The Director wanted to hurry up and throw a rape scene in there without really getting into the particulars of the actual rape and everything that comes after that…. because there sure is a lot that got skipped, I felt anyway. You’re right…directing was an issue and casting…although I did enjoy the younger version of kunis character. you know the other thing is…. I know there’s more of the me to movement these days and there was never that of course when I was a young 22 years old but we certainly didn’t talk about it and we didn’t tell people and shit like I said I’m 62 years old and I’m just now talking about it really…. I mean I don’t openly discuss it with people ever and that’s some of the things I was thinking about when she was waffling back-and-forth about doing that documentary I just thought to myself that just doesn’t sound right…. Anyway thx for your thoughts and obviously I agree! ✌️

That's ok. Victims aren't there to liked. It doesn't change the fact that they were victims.

@@Schaemia So this is not a movie, but an advocate piece. Got it, no wonder it didn't work so well. 2 hour wasted.

I like her, she stood for herself, thats enough to me.

They really did. But I guess the commenter below is correct. Two things can be true. But I did not like her AT ALL

Bro she literally sounds like Meg when she spazzing

This character wasnt striving for feminist reasons, she was just trying to feel safe. When something like this happens, from that moment on, you dont feel safe. She felt like if she could achieve the same status as the rich kids had, shed finally feel like noone could hurt her again. It was all about her having to carry the consequences of what they did.

@@SLKnoxx that's not what the first few minutes of the movie portrays. She was complaining about why woman get married, yet she was getting married anyway. Everything was about the "patriarchy". It's as if the movie tried to pander to the feminist audience.

@@Jeremy-wp4yh The point becomes very clear the motivation for everything shes done has been to get through what happened. She used feminism to feel safe in a world that is damaging to women .

@@SLKnoxx I don't buy that way of looking at it at all and the reason for it is that Kunis never sells that as her character and what she's dealing with. She comes off like someone who is hiding something about her past that she feels ashamed of and is trying to fit in with the glamorous rich people......we also know that she WANTS to have that power over people like she saw with that woman when she was a teenager (we see this clearly when she tries using her boss's office as her own)........she doesn't like rich people, she doesn't like marriage or babies but she wants the power of being someone important. That's what getting her story out there does......it makes her important in a way that feels genuine to her. It's not fake, it's real. It's also a power fantasy, she does not deal with her trauma in a healthy way, she treats people as disposable (just like how she was) but without making her be responsible for the consequences of her actions. She strings a guy along and almost marries him, despite the fact that she detests who he is and the script forces lines into his mouth to make him come off as unlikable to justify her unlikable behavior. Ani is an unlikable person and the only reason why we are supposed to like her is because she was raped.......that's it. The character herself is not likable......but she's a victim, therefore we have to like her. One of the arguments of the film is gun control vs sexual assault and what takes precedence over the other......why not both take precedence? The school shooting is a fucking plot device......it is a means to get the plot rolling without really playing an integral part in the story. Ani isn't traumatized by the shooting......therefore the shooting doesn't matter. What matters is what happened to her before the shooting.......even then, there doesn't have to be a school shooting to tell that story. The film walks a damn fine line in getting you to sympathize with school shooters and their reasons for doing what they did. And Ani did not save some of the victims, do the ends justify the means? Did they deserve to die for what they did to her? The book was written in 2015......the film is out in 2022.......school shootings have become far more prevalent in society than in 2015. The film just sweeps it under the rug......it feels absolutely cheap and done for shock value. Long story short, this movie was advertised to be something else in the trailers and I hated the film that we got......wasn't a fan

Imo, she didn't feel like there was anything to work out with the fiance as he was just another part of her made up self. She confirmed that he was in fact a box for her to check off in her journey of pretending. She loved him as a person, but there's no way their relationship could survive as it was because she didn't make it past the "representative " phase people tend to have when they first meet someone. The entire relationship was her representative and not her true self. Hell she hadn't yet discovered herself yet so there's no way she could've been her authentic self with him. It was a fairy tale masquerading as love. She needed to be free at the end to explore more of her new found self. He even alluded to the "fun her" that he missed.... that was just a representation of what she thought he needed her to be.

I was in tears during that scene. While he was saying "Why didn't you tell me, I thought you were past all this", I felt that to my bones and I wanted so desperately for him to then say "I'm sorry I didnt know" or "Im proud of you." Because I knew thats what I wanted to hear. But that would have been to easy and completely unrealistic.

@@CANDACE_7 I hear what you're saying, but putting yourself in his position, with the bias of realizing that you have been used, you wouldn't feel sympathy for her, so in that context, I can't feel sympathy for her. Also, her lack of having to resolve that her former classmates were killed, one of which she left to die and the other being her friend, which she killed herself. There's also the internal conflict that goes with seeking revenge for what happened to you and knowing that it came by way of death, which was partly done in her name. We all would like to have things happen to people that have wronged us - the thing is that we would like it to happen in such a way where guilt cannot be placed onto us, whether it be from others or from ourselves. Absolution never comes as easy as it did for Ani.

@@SLKnoxx same! Such a gut wrenching scene! Just shows he was not right for her!

@@BobaDavis you can’t feel sympathy for someone who has been gang raped, in a school schooting and then been ostracized for both? No sympayhy for someone who has not been believed, not heard, not seen when she needed it most? The “I used you!” Wasn’t done intentionally. It wasn’t done out of malice or with mean intent. It was unconcious, a way for her to cope. When she realized it, she broke it off. She did say she felt regret, but she realized that’s what is the truth.

wym 😂 he was leaving to london. trying to get her to abandon her dream job. that fight in the car that was not healthy 😂 later she called his aunt a flabby cougar. his sex did not match her kinks. he was unsupportive of her sharing her story and being able to fun anymore and more interested in healing her trauma. they were awful for each other.

A good husband? 😂😂😂 I feel terrible for your partner! He was a piece of trash, constantly dismissing her trauma and being angry that she wasn't always a good happy little trophy wife. A guy who whines about how his traumatized wife used to be "fun" and complains that she's making HER story too public since "her rapists were assholes, BUT.....", is not a good partner.

Overrated all the way to the bank & no matter what, that syndication money will be rolling in for life😂. As Peter would say, “shut up Lee”

@@brentmaxey20100 You'll live.

@@justlee4now449 you’re right I will🫶🏼

I feel like she always plays the same person

@@brentmaxey20100 Don't take it so hard dude. She gave her opinion about mila acting not her paycheck🤦‍♂ Those two things have nothing to do with one another.

Thank you!