You Missed One Of The Best (And Most Haunting) Movies of 2019
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Also... *what's the most UNDERRATED movie of 2019???*
Ryan Hollinger I honestly thought Alita got a raw deal. It wasn’t perfect but it was a good standalone story that could also build well into a larger franchise if they fix the first movie’s problems in the sequel.
Is there any question? The answer is obviously *Cats* 😹😹😹
Ryan Hollinger this film would’ve been my #1 answer.
But aside from this film? Here’s a Top 15 list of best films nobody saw from 2019:
- Climax
- Greener Grass
- Her Smell
- In Fabric
- Little Woods
- Luce
- Maiden
- Monos
- Promare
- Shadow
- The Art of Self Defense
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Togo
- Transit
- Wild Rose
Honestly this film and Dragged Across Concrete
Klaus
The scene where Clare and Billy run up to each other after being separated... You would expect them to embrace and cling tight to each other, like so many other films would, as if to suggest that all is forgiven and none of their prior hatred towards each other matters anymore. But they don't. They just stand in the middle of the road facing one another, quietly smiling and crying out of relief for not losing yet another person they feel safe with. This one moment had me bawling. Brilliant stuff.
So good and real within the scope that they understood the context of looking out for each other. They found a mutual understanding.
That was a tough scene not to cry over.
People often forget how horrifying history is
Do they? Because it seems to me that we are being reminded pretty much daily lately.
Cyril I agree. Ever since 2016 no one shuts up about it.
@@xMACHOxMANx The Internet, and UA-cam, is pretty insulated. Talking to people in person about history reveals just how little we know/are told
inari anyone who says “they already know this” don’t know enough. Because if you did know enough...you wouldn’t shut up about it.
What you learn in social studies in school is not enough. Keep reading. Keep learning. Apathy gives way to ignorance. Ignorance gives way to fear and hate.
And considering where we are politically, there are plenty of people who need to be told repeatedly how bad it got. That it wasn’t just a problem easily solved, and that it still effects us right now.
@@jazzycat8917 I don't think it's a bad thing for it to be reminded. But to be harped on- to be pushed in movies and television and adverts and, hell, even music, day in and day out is getting aggravating. The harsh truth is there are exceptions on all fronts- some colonizers were terrible, others tried to live and let live and were attacked and killed. One does not negate the other, but nothing is so black and white.
Tell people about the past in all it's harshness, by all means, but stop expecting the people of today to pay the tab on the people of yesterday. Human history is about conflict and conquest and every race and gender, at some point in time, found themselves on the receiving end of the blows.
I live in Tasmania, and have a couple of friends who worked on this film. It’s gut wrenching, and devastatingly accurate to our history on the island.
Apparently Jennifer Kent was amazing to work with and really emphasised making sure everyone was okay in their performances. One of my friends had quite a violent sex scene with Sam Claflin towards the end of the film and she said Jennifer was really caring and made sure everyone treated her well & that she was okay throughout the whole shoot. Idk, it just makes me very happy to hear that such a devastating story can be told with so much care by a director like Kent.
@Stella Gibson YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Stella Gibson No, we need more good directors, and we need to not focus on their gender.
@coke13 yes
@@coke1354 dOn'T fOcUs oN gEnDer
bite me
@@oof-wi7hp that's the pinnacle of your comeback? Warped text and bite me. Oh that's sad.
Being a young aboriginal man from yourta yourta tribe this is probably the only movie that despites Australia's dark history and sadly cuts deep
Have a look at The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Also maybe take a look at The proposition and to a lesser extent Quigley down under
I'm honestly surprised that it took until 2019 for filmmakers to make a proper horror movie about Australia's colonization.
And the fact our media has basically erased its existence... I really fucking hope you guys get justice and repentance in our lifetimes ❤
This movie was just so bleak. One of the best movies I’ll never watch again.
well said
The best movie I'll never watch again is Requiem For A Dream. I think The Nightingale was a little underwhelming for me because people made it sound like it was unwatchable due to graphic rape and violence. I kept expecting something even more grisly and terrible to happen, but the baby death and rape scene at the beginning was the most unsettling part of the film. I wish I had gone into this movie blind because it probably would've effected me more.
@@advancedstupidity5459 jesus, what kind of shit are you usually watching that you didnt consider this graphic and hard to watch?
@@rebeccagibbs4128 LMAO!! 🤣😂
@@advancedstupidity5459 Dude, I was coming to comment the same thing about Requiem! That movie had such an effect on me, I never NEED to watch it again - it literally changed how I think. Listened to the theme song thousands of times, seen the movie once...
As both a rape survivor, and a cinema fan, I have been wavering between wanting to watch this movie, and being petrified of it... I am so glad you had the balls to be straight forward about what this movie is about, and the emotional impact of this piece. Every other review I've seen has tip toed around the horrific details of this story. Thank you for this honest depiction of the horror of this film.
As a survivor, I personally found it somewhat cathartic to watch. If that helps you make a decision at all. I did cry like a baby, but I felt understood. Clare's feelings were portrayed so well, and I definitely saw some of myself in her.
@@stellarkayaos2131 Thanks really good to know, thank you:)
One thing that isn’t talked about much from this movie (and I completely understand that as there are plenty of truly awful events in it) is the killing of the natives in chains and beheading for the trophy/dialogue in that scene with the close up on Billy’s face. One of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen.
I was so angry, it felt real.
When Billy is "allowed" to eat with the white couple after that and just spouts out "this is my home". That freaking broke me. Never seen a movie show the horrors of colonialism so clearly.
That's the scene that stuck with me the most too. Just the ease and nonchalance of that brutality. The utter lack of acknowledging those three aboriginal men as people. Horrifying.
The real history of the country that's happened quite a lot.
@@yltraviole they weren't seen as people and by many stil aren't.
This film did a much better job than most at subverting the revenge narrative. Claire gets her revenge against the villain who technically committed the worst affront by killing her baby, but who is simultaneously the least monstrous of the three, and the act itself is traumatizing enough that it sours the whole revenge mission for her just halfway through the movie. Kent commits to this burnout as well; Claire really seems to have lost any interest in killing another human being ever again, even her rapist and widowmaker. It's also interesting that Billy ends up killing Hawkins and Ruse. Over the course of the film he switches places with Claire - the vengeful Claire gets a taste of what she sought and finds it brings her no satisfaction, while the apathetic Billy becomes increasingly enraged by the actions of Hawkins against his people. In the end, as exemplified by his body paint, it's not an act of personal vengeance but an act of war.
Excellent comment.
Very well understood. As an Indigenous person your comment is a small light of clarity around the historical interactions between my people and colonization. We were at war not at first but inevitably yes. It was either that or complete and utter extinction.
@@charki40 I am so sorry. So ashamed of being a white Australian. Sorry means little & talk is cheap. I tell anyone who'll listen how ashamed I am of my country, stolen from others and the things that have been done. there's nothing more I can say and I hope you don't find what I am saying now insulting.
@@JHjh88 wtf? it`s not as if you commited said acts. don`t insult your parents and embrace who you are as much as the past from which we learn and build a future. there`s plenty to fight for today instead of being ashamed of what you are.
Luchiop your comment shows how very empathy you have and also an example of what’s wrong with this world - “it’s not my issue, I didn’t do it.” Learn how to accept what your forefathers were responsible for. Sins of the father carry into the future for learning experiences and humbling purposes. When you climb down those those stairs from that high perch, you might want to ponder that.
I can honestly say the Nightingale was the first movie that made me want to lie down and disassociate for a while after I saw it. And I mean that as a compliment
Thats what happened to me when i watched requiem for a dream
Same. Like when you read a good book and have to close it for a sec to digest it, the brain is loading. This film did it to me too.
Like a clay pigeon to the windpipe, I was _entirely_ unprepared.
My mind: OUCH
MY BODY: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...!
I'm going to Google this phrase, I've never heard this before. Like I know what a clay pigeon is, and I think I know what a windpipe is (A flute or some other wind instrument? Sounds too tame to mean a g*n) and I assume the disconnection between a flute and a target is the point of the 'metaphor'?
I dunno if I'm using the right words.
Roadent1241 a windpipe in this sense means the trachea. So it’s like being smashed in the throat with a clay pigeon.
@@danaarae Oh! Right, thank you!
Roadent1241 you’re welcome! ❤️
"If you are out for revenge, dig two graves"
sometimes, it needs to be done. if one has nothing else, then perhaps ridding the world of one evil and one, soon to be evil, is the lesser evil.
@Fuckth eChineseGovt I don't think that was their point. The statement wasn't exactly for that situation but a more general philosophy saying evil only brings more evil.
@@dinoeric1874 Thank you, you are exactly correct. It was a broad statement for a broad philosophical idea.
@stockart whiteman I had meant (I admit in a rather obtuse way) that getting revenge and digging ones own grave destroys the possibility of oneself becoming the evil they sought to eliminate. This ends the revenge bitterly, yes, but also shows restraint and understanding. This of course, was only written in context for a person who has nothing nothing left. In those times especially, and in that situation. In our current era this only really applies in a philosophical sense.
@stockart whiteman Just to add to my other reply, I completely agree with your points and that revenge is truly, only cathartic in nature and by that nature is selfish. But who can draw the line between justice and revenge? Humans are more complex than that, and I admit, I often simplify our behaviors because breaking anything down to their simplistic components can be beneficial to our understanding (as long as we don't take that for granted).
Hey Ryan, just wanted to say thank you for the content warning. I'm seeing a therapist for my PTSD and we've recently been discussing how a lot of times when I've been triggered, I've been caught off guard. I think this caused an epiphany as to why trigger warnings are so crucial, they help us prevent our adrenal response by being prepared and not "caught off-guard" when the triggering subject appears. So your warning helped make what would usually be a really upsetting subject for me into a very healing experience where I connected with this film a lot. Thank you and Happy 2020!
I hope you keep doing better, have a nice day 🌺
@@oof-wi7hp omg thank you so much, I hope you are well too in the new year :''')
Really strong to show something like this to so many people i respect you so much get better i have ptsd to and wanna say your damn awesome
@@burstyfd7451 it can be really hard sometimes right? But we can do it! Thank you for your sweet words, you are awesome too!
I hope you’ll thrive with the help you are receiving. We will support you 🙂
It wasn't all total darkness. The friendship that develops between the leads is profound and tender. The scene where they reunite was beautiful, as well as when the black bird helps her. That whole motif was very powerful. That final scene, damn.
I live in Tasmania and Jennifer Kent had a packed Q+A screening at the local cinema. It was probably the most intense film experiences I've watched with an audience, who were literally gasping and sighing 'oh no'. But it was an important movie, and it really showed the real horror of how convicts and aboriginal people were treated back in that period of time. It was like we were trapped and given a reality check of how brutal that time was. Wouldn't watch it again, but i'll remember it for sure. Glad you made a video about this. :)
Not making the mistake of NOT watching this movie before I watch this!
Be right back!!
Depressing as FUCK!
Same
I didnt like it
I literally just did that haha
What'd you think?
@@naivenitara worse than when in hereditary they knocked off a little girl's head. like WHAT THE FUCK! 😭😭
2019 was quite a year for sophomore horror movies. Jordan Peele, Jennifer Kent, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers.
Jordan peele's latest movie was pretty much a comedy though..
@@morbillionaire damn shame it wasn't funny or scary. Easily one of the most frustrating/disappointing movies I've ever watched.
@@evey0259 i know right! I had high hopes since i really enjoyed get out but "us" was just uhh, frustrating is indeed the best way to describe it.
@@evey0259 Lupita Nyong’os performance was the only thing that was genuinely good in that movie, and even then the counterparts voice was a bit much at times, and the "twist" at the end makes no sense and goddamn im getting pissed even remembering the movie.
Well, this is a historical depection right? Midsommar is a retarded "clickbait" movie that demonifies a very popular Swedish tradition...
As a Tasmanian just let me say:
Yes
This is THE MOST underrated movie of 2019. While people are bitching about Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Kent was SERIOUSLY ignored. This movie is incredible. The film itself is one of the most intense experiences I've had this year. It was painful to watch in the absolute best way possible. And Kent's direction is an incredible part of that. Want to talk about female stories not being seen? THIS is the movie for that.
It made me, a 6 foot tall white man, feel helpless, destroyed, and outraged in a way that is very much a way that women feel that I do not in my life.
bro we can talk about one woman being ignored in best director picks without bringing others down
Completely agree, a complete heartbreaking story & painful to get through but only because that’s how it would happen. Such a great story that should be experienced by everyone at least once
I think this film deserved much more awards attention.
This movie wasn't just about what women went through (though not minimizing what happened to the main character), apparently someone just glanced over all the murdered natives part. You also make it sound like all women are victims and always vulnerable.
@@k.s.2935 That wasn't at all my point. My point was that it actually put you in a position of female vulnerability. How, from that, are you derriiving that I'm saying women are always victims?
As for this film, the horrors of living under colonialism struck me much harder than the violence depicted in the film. Jennifer Kent is very strong with the thematic subtext in her films, that being grief and guilt in The Babadook.
Frankly this is more deserving of the "horror" moniker than 90% of horror films these days. I loved the hell out of it but I will never EVER watch it again.
The film is on Hulu just so you are all aware.
Thank you
if i knew that, i wouldnt have been halfway through the film now haha
amazing
Carmen Smith Aguirre
Thank you 🙏🏾
@Magnitude Reviews don’t want to watch the video yet because of the spoiler warning? May I ask for the title of the film?
the nightingale was gut wrenching -
glad to see someone talking about it!
My dad took my prenis and threw it into the wind .. 😔
kate amantha the jedi did a video on this over her channel
Could have gone the way of "I spit on your grave" but decided to have depth
It didn't promise depth and didn't need it!
I love the Rape/Revenge genre but it’s usually cheesy. I’m so glad this was an intelligent movie with purpose and insight.
tama’s pajamas wtf does that mean?
@@tamapajamas it is a historical drama. I can totally see Mel Gibson or Quentin Tarantino directing it and turning it into something completely different but i am glad the direction Jennifer Kent has chosen.
One guess as to the difference.
I swear half of these videos are making me rethink all the movies I've ever seen and the other half are making me watch movies I've never heard about. This is by far the best channel for dissecting movies. Great job!!
I love this movie. Fascinating because I read that ending differently. SPOILERS!!!
For me Billy's final defiance of Claire's wish to be "above the violence" was him essentially making the claim for his people. That it's not HER choice to make for him or his people. That his murder of the soldier boys was NECESSARY. And although Claire tries her best to stop Billy from doing it, he doesn't leave without doing so. And the end they both sing their songs, not together, but separate from one another.
Symbolizing that while they have dealt with similar trauma, they will NEVER BE THE SAME. Claire is still a white woman with a culture that has not been wiped out. She has a ppl and a heritage to go back to, so her not succumbing to revenge can feel justified because she can still have a life somewhere.
Billy's world is gone. Anything resembling his home, has either been taken or destroyed, and his final murder was an act of justice. SOMEONE had to pay for the genocide of his people. Sure He couldn't kill all the English, BUT those 2 men can represent some sort of retribution for that pain.
Like Mookie throwing the trash can through Sal's pizzeria in DO THE RIGHT THING. Sure it didn't accomplish anything, but someone had to pay for Radio Raheem's death. That pain and helplessness had to be targeted somewhere.
The film ends for Claire when they lay down to sleep side by side. The film ends for Billy when they're on that beach. it ends with her not triumphant, but her realizing she truly is alone. Not because Billy will probably die soon, but because she, no matter how severe her trauma, can NEVER know Billy's pain.
So the film ends. Each singing a song from their respective cultures. Together but separate. Not with an embrace, but alone together. A MASTERPIECE of an ending.
thank god for this comment. its sincerely bothering me how little people are speaking about billy in this film
👏THANK YOU👏 Billy's killing of the soldiers wasn't really revenge, he was taking out a few colonizers that were responsible for the deaths of probably HUNDREDS of his people.
I found it interesting that the film has basically a double barreled message. One is that revenge is ultimately empty and self annihilating. The other is do what you need to do to find and express your identity (your song). And the ending is consistent to the message we get when Claire asks Billy what do you do with your own people who are bad and he shrugs and says "we kill em".
Wow, marvoleous your conclusion to the movie ending is very deep 🤯 Mind blowing!
I really don't think it's fair to compare trauma or try to "win" the game of who's suffering is worse. All suffering and trauma is valid and the same way she can't imagine what it's like to have your home and culture destroyed, he doesn't know what it's like to be not only raped but have your family killed while you're being raped.
There are important differences to acknowledge in their place in the world but to imply his trauma is "worse" or more valid than here because she has the privelege of being a white woman is gross. There's no need to compare, no one's trauma is superior to someone else's 🙄
all the Tasmanians in the comments like "Finally, someone noticed us"
the hunter from 2011 was a good tasmanian movie.
Van dieman's land is also a very good movie about Tas as well and just as brutal and gritty if not more so than this film.
9:04 - ". . . all this immediate rage that bubbled up to this very point leaves her with a moment of reflection where her grief finally consumes her."
I actually really like a moment like this being in a "revenge" movie. I've genuinely thought a lot about how a character would feel (if they were a real person, of course) after completing an act of revenge that they became so focused on, it took over their entire life. Some people would simply assume they would feel "better", but I've always imagined that no longer having something to focus so intensely on would cause someone to break down, because they finally have the time to realize just what they've lost.
If that makes sense. :P
This might sound like a cop-out but I think it depends on the person. Having said that I often think that the kinds of people who are satisfied by revenge have a violent disposition anyway. In other words they're not likely to be what we would think of as the "good guys."
Actually, you know... the movie "Memento" might be about this, depending on how you choose to interpret the ending.
When I finally sat down and watched this, I cried, especially when Billy heard from the men in chains that Billy is the last of, well, his kind essentially (the last of his, for lack of better words, tribe), then they were shot dead (they too were the last of their respective group) and then the men who shot them were laughing about it, with one of them gleefully asking to take the head of one them.
How bold of you to assume I missed this masterpiece.
I was going to say exactly this!
Had no idea what I was walking into when I bought my ticket, god damn this movie is brutal. So cold and mean and frank, really stuck with me. Glad to hear it won all them australian oscars bc you’re right it seems no one paid it any mind in my circle. Sam Claflin was such a bastarddd I don’t remember the last movie villain I hated so much what a great performance. Great vid as always bro! Love your channel
SPOILERS: I just watched it and I literally felt anger that he died so "simply". I had been waiting for him to suffer the way he deserved, everytime he came on screen I was filled with hate for him and that other little maggot he carried around. I'm now going around youtube watching interviews of the actors being their normal charming non-monster selves to calm down
@@dimsef7367 Its amazing because he is SUCH a sweet guy in real life. I was like you. I couldnt even look the actor in the face for a while after I watched this film. Then I realized just what an amazing job he did to get that reaction out of me. Now I watch the interviews with him and its clear he was genuinely wounded by playing that role and I respect him all the more.
@@IRex-wm9pd he also does an amazing job playing oswald mosley on peaky blinders so playing historical cunts might be his strong suit. (To British people upset with me calling mosley a cunt he was. I'm right leaning but mosley was a fascist prick
Claflin's character was a fuck*n psychopath. Talking about how he hate guns' loud noises just after shooting a kid..
"The history books of events are watered down for comfort of humanity but the reality of history when witness in truth is horrifying to be looked upon from such a propspective"
"She ultimately freezes, gets shot, and bollocks off"
Moviebox quote right there
I loved the end credit music arranged especially for the film. I watched a number of interviews where Kent said she wanted to show love and compassion in an impossible situation and not just violence for gratification. I can listen to that woman speak all day. Such an intelligent and strong force.
I heard that they had to have therapists present at one screening of this film.
Yes. Which was a little overstated but good on them for thinking of the audience.
ffs
@@thac0twenty377 what?
@@felix56p Probably one of these people who's very *_ANGRY_* about *_FEELINGS_*
@@thac0twenty377 Yep, this is a snowflake, white guilt fest in these comments. I wonder if there will be a crew of shrinks for comment's sections soon. All those opinions that others don't like, and no way to handle that, lol.
When the rape and child murder isn't the most controversial part.
I literally had to take a break at that part.
This reminded me a lot of Come and See with the filmography and everything. I just watched it today and it was absolutely incredible. The last time I watched a movie that made me feel the way this movie did was indeed Come and See. I am a fanatic about films that go away from the norm and show the realistic situations of horrible events. This is absolutely horrifying to watch but a necessary watch if you want to grasp just how horrible humans can be. No monster or creature is scarier than the very Human and the Human nature. Reality is so much scarier than fictional horror because you physically know that this actually happened and knowing that is horrifying.
Edit: I'd like to also mention the feature of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird noises during huge events of the movie. The reason behind this is that there is one recording of its call and the bird calling in that recording was the last known Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird ever before extinction. His cooing was a mating call senselessly searching for a mate that is long gone and will never come back. It's very sad and symbolic as Clare and Billy are both in the same situation.
I have actually seen the film, and it is among my Top 10 Favorite Films of 2019.
Thank you for making a video about this incredible gem of cinema that was overlooked because it went places that no distributor ever dared to touch. Leaving it at the hands of IFC, which is essentially movie release suicide.
As a FNP this movie had me struggling most of the way through. The depiction of atrocities from the British's hands towards our people were so bluntly presented. They never gave you too much or too little. Just enough to make you aware of what was actually going on.
It's sad that the views which caused those evil acts are still present in so many realms of Australia, from politics to mainstream media. There is still so many negative stereotyping and hatred for Indigenous culture. And it's frustrating to see so many Irish/convict decedents holding these same views as well, since (as this movie presented) convicts were treated less than human as well.
Australia has a really dark and forcibly forgotten past (our current PM recently denied the existence of black slavery in Australia) and it was good seeing a film which depicted a lot of the atrocities with bluntness and honesty.
@david it's you who is fucking despicable for this comment.
@david You are either 12 or 70, no in between. Either pure boomer or actual child lmao.
@david Also imagine actually being cucked enough to support the British empire lmao, viva la quebecois
@david >Viva la blackface
you´re aware that most people in canada, not just quebecois, don´t like trudeau, right? I´m really not understanding the point you´re desperately, immaturely trying to make
@david I guess that´s what happens when the other choices are andrew fucking sheer and the NDP´s Singh who´s first name I will not massacre out of respect for (the rest) of the sikh community
You should watch some Korean Horror movies too, especially Crime Thriller ones.
There wern’t any decent korean horror film this year.
@Walkin' Tall well, I am not comparing anything. it was unrelated comment. I was suggesting some korean movies that he may yet explored. get it??
@Walkin' Tall This movie doesn't even compare to Old Boy. A Korean drama that has much more horror, pain, anguish, and psychological damage than this or most other movies ever will. Don't even try comparing
Croz Raven yeah like Oldboy or bedeviled
The Chaser, and I Saw The Devil are great too.
I honestly think that's the truest comfort. No matter how alone you may feel, you're not truly alone. Never. Someone out there does understand.
As a father of two the baby scene almost killed me lol
It was so... raw. It reached into my heart chest cavity and took cold scissors putting me in a state similar to an injured antelope who just gained self consciousness. The friendship they end up having made me cry. So good.
I watched “The Nightingale” a few weeks ago and I have never seen a movie that could rival “I Spit On Your Grave” in the raw ugliness and violence that humans are capable of. Reality is often more frightening than fiction.
I think this film is a masterpiece. There are few films that have me so immersed I forget Im sitting on my couch. This and The Place Beyond the Pines had that effect on me.
A horrific and devastating film. Some part of me wishes to unwatch it. Loved it. When I wasn't terrified I was crushed.
This films is unnerving, relentless, and has a very distinct voice. Jennifer Kent should not be slept on
I don't think I have enough emotional fortitude to watch this movie.
When I saw the notification for this video pop up, I had the biggest grin on my face, because I was waiting for somebody to talk about this movie. I was lucky enough to see it in theaters when it came to Indiana.
The Nightingale is my second favorite movie of 2019 (The Lighthouse being the first). And this is the most brutal, somber, and haunting movies I’ve seen in theaters since 12 Years A Slave. This movie stuck with me ever since I left the theaters after seeing it.
If there was any justice in this world, Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin would get Oscar nominations for their performances. But I’m glad the movie got some form of award recognition.
It was awesome to hear you talk about it, Ryan. I look forward to your next video.
And I’m sorry that you were underwhelmed by The Lighthouse. Still hope to see you do a video on it sometime.
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This movie was absolutely phenomenal, very well deserving to be called a horror film for the ages
the nightingale deserves all the love it can get
So I worked at Sundance when Nightingale was there, and I got to see it for free as a result. It was such a surreal experience because I’d never seen people react to a film that violently before. Like, people were having panic attacks, throwing up, crying, and just straight up walking out of the theater. The film itself was probably one of the best I’ve seen this year, but the reactions to it made it super memorable
Sounds like when the Exorcist was released but on a smaller scale because audiences were less cynical and of course the Exorcist was a huge mainstream release. Perhaps audiences have strong reactions when they realize they can’t “trust” the director anymore lol
I really appreciate reviews like this. I am unsure if I can actually watch this film without it causing flashbacks for me so its nice to be able to learn more about the film while I decide.
Honestly I think its so important on so many levels movies like this are made.
WendyInspired agree. I will NEVER watch it. And from this review I really wish I could. 🙁
It’s a VERY difficult film to watch but I’m glad I did. It’s remarkable.
I was raped when I was you get and while it is difficult to watch I also found it a tremendously rewarding watch, obviously everyone is different but for me I’ve found it important not to let fear of things like this rule over me, I’d hate not to be able to get the rewards and enjoyment that a lot of great media has to offer just because I am afraid of reliving my past and through this I’ve greatly overcome that trauma. Hope that encourages others :).
@@tylerlynch8559 Avoiding a PTSD flashback is not “fear of reliving the past”, to think that way, is horribly reductive and dismissive of the work I’ve done to heal something that will never leave me. My healing journey is not yours, no one will have the same path to healing as you. And it’s ridiculous to think that watching this kind of film before I am able mentally is somehow unhealthy ‘avoidant’ behavior. And saying so is not helpful or encouraging to anyone. Just like being told, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Isn’t helpful or encouraging because we know it’s not always true because some can only hope to get through. There is no lesson to learn, no higher reason for the trauma… trauma is just trauma.
As a survivor yourself you should understand that not putting yourself in situations that could trigger trauma or an attack. Not everything can be the equivalent of exposure therapy nor should it. What’s healing to some is extremely damaging to others.
Which leads me back to my original point, reviews like this are needed so each person can weight that for themselves without making that a judgement on others journey or accusing them of “letting fear rule” them.
Stay in your lane and don’t sh*t on other’s journey.
you should definitely cover more Australian Gothic films!!! like one of me all time favourites & is such an underrated/niche genre that really explores how this barren land that goes on forEver affects the human psyche and the feelings of loneliness, despair & survival instincts.
Like the outback & the bush are so expanse and has always had that feeling that you are travelling back in time to 20 years ago because they are so cut off with the modernity with the coast (its changed now with stuff like the internet and phones but as soon as they are cut off chiile).
One of the best, most underrated and overlooked 2019 movies. People keep rambling about Lulu Wang and Greta Gerwig not getting an Oscar nomination, but Jennifer Kent eats them alive and yet no one talks about her. They are pretty good, but Kent is incredible.
Thank you so much for giving an in depth analysis of this movie. I enjoyed it immensely, despite the hard content. This became one of my favorite movies of 2019. the way it approach the horrific violence inflicted upon claire and Mangana (I think that was his name) gave me a new insight into the injustice treatment of colonial power. This movie broke me and gave me a new understanding of the harsh treatment of the indigenous populations. My heart goes out to them, with immense compassion. I appreciate the way you articulated the meaning of this movie. Keep up the great work. I love your channel!
My favourite film of last year!!! Thanks so much for covering it
The nightingale is the best movie that i never want to see again
I find it interesting how common this sentiment is. I don't want to see The Babadook again, even though I thought it was well made. I understand it's hard to watch but I'd hate to think I'd never watch a movie this powerful again. As a matter of fact I live for movies like this... okay so they're not usually *this* intense, but still.
5:32 the peen and misery
Damnit I saw this comment halfway through the video and peen was all I heard after when ever he said it.
I was confused for like half a second each time Ryan said "peen". I was like wait what? Oh _pain_
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When your videos come in I tend to search for the film your commenting on(this one I found on Hulu), then watch the film and follow that with watching your review/analysis of the film. You are teaching us to dig deeper, and find meaning, you are giving us tools to ably critique our own experiences with film.
Thank you for another great analysis.
You should consider teaching Film Criticism or Film Composition at a University.
Thank you for covering this beautiful film! It did not get the attention it deserves. Hopefully more will appreciate it in the future.
Interestingly, I'm looking at this movie's visuals and I'm reminded of the work of Emily Carroll, particularly stories like "All Out of Skin" and "Our Neighbor's House".
BloodylocksBathory YES THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT IN WORDS
Emily Carroll is great!!
Fantastic analysis. I felt you are correct on all points the film is about the eventual futiliy of revenge in the face of so much carnage and destruction bought upon a native population and that once persons pain can be magnified by a populations pain. It's ironic that i saw this at Abertoir Horror festival in Wales on the opening night and that this is the one film that resonated with the festival crowd and eventually got 2nd place in the festivals audience award. True horror can exist in man basically and its existed in history all throughout.
Great work on the video, Ryan. You sold me on how interesting this movie can be and I will be checking it out. Keep it up!
Honestly one of my fave UA-camr's. You are so awesome Ryan!
Nightingale was the last film I saw in 2019. It's a phenomenally well made film and shockingly brutal.
The second you hear the witch cellos you know something bad is coming
The Nightngale was one of the best horror movies I've ever watched it was orignal and unique the topics it touched are very rarely explored in cinema the shots were transported me to the time period. Jennifer Kent is one of the Best directors of our time.
bruh. Saw this video come up yesterday and thought oh ryan always has the best recs, I'll watch this movie then come back to the video and maaaaate. My god. Honestly, i found this film so hard on so many levels. But boy you are right about being emotionally moved by a film
I remember watching this in theaters back in August. I had heard about the controversy surrounding the violence coming out of Sundance but I didn’t give it any passing thought.
I froze in my seat once THAT scene started to play out. While it didn’t have the same effect a few months later when I rewatched it, it still gives me chills when I think about it.
Absolutely one of the most powerful amazing films I've ever seen.
This is giving me Bone Tomahawk vibes, which funnily enough was the first video of yours I watched, and you have had me hooked ever since
every video you put out is gold man. love the videos!
Ight ryan hollinger you sold me based on the description so far, so Ima go check it out and give my thoughts on it...BRB
After watching the film, it felt like a roller coaster of emotions. Sooooooooooo many jaw dropped moments for me and curiosity of where the story was headed. When I thought 1 thing was gonna happen, the film took a different route as mr. hollinger explained. Each actor/actress played their part extremely well, which I appreciate so much more now as an adult than when I was a kid. The main monster guy has 0,none, not a single ounce of a redeemable factor about him and what really had me in woooooow, was how at the end of the film he was just getting his rocks off on some wh***,after all the stuff that he done throughout the past couple of days. Like bruuuuuuuuuuuh, I can't even fathom this dude. I didn't even get that grand feeling at the end when the bad guy dies. It was more like alright dude got what was coming to him, where do we go from here, because now I'm more curious as to what these characters are going to do now. Awesome recommendation ryan! Looking forward to more.
After watching this it instantly went on my list of favorite all-time movies. It is a very dark and brutal movie that had me mesmerized from start to finish. I’m no spring chicken anymore, and I have never-ever EVER hated a bad guy in a movie as much the bad guy(s) in this one. I felt so much real pain for Clare. How could you not. It is not a horror film as you stated, but it is horrific. I love this movie and will watch it again. If you liked “The Revenant”, this film might just be for you, but be prepared, as it is very bleak and disturbing. Nuff said!
Awesome video! And sad, sad, movie. What I think it's that the knowledge that revenge doesn't cure your pain and misery, comes with age. Those in the movie are all very young, in an era in which life expectancy was very short, so people were thrust in to violent and traumatic situations at a very young age, motherhood in early teens, fighting and killing and suffering exile and colonization and so on, so many times they didn't have the time to come to terms with all the shit they had to endure.
Just watched this film last night. I purposefully skipped watching your video for this because I knew I wanted to go in clean on this one. My heart - I want it back, Ryan. But, I'd settle for a hug.
One of my favorites of last year although it's such a hard movie to rewatch and maybe will never watch it again
I saw this materpiece a week ago and I still cant get it out of my head. It was really intens and felt so freaking real. That was the scary part.
There will never be another film like this. Made my blood boil, feel empty, enraged and then brought me to tears by the end. Such an important one that I will always recommend.
I deem this a Horror movie still, and I'll never change my opinion. As a horror loving genre, I can point out that this movie depict the horrors of living in a truly horrifying dark times. If Horror genre is a field of many plantations, this one present a horrific tragedy life of a woman (Clare Carrol) who is a victim of her time. Also Billy. The dialogues between the two also interesting. Especially when Clare said *welcome to the world, boy* after telling Billy her past life before, basically telling Billy and us audience that in the end, *anyone can be oppressed* . To me, the very concept of this masterpiece is *understanding one another* . The two eventually befriend each other, and they watched the sunrise, after their horrific losses.
I honestly think this is a movie that should be watched in high school. We learn a lot about colonialism but we never really learn how brutal it was. This movie would really serve to bring home just how horrific it was back then.
Totally agree
@afootineachworld I think highschool seniors are old enough to understand it and process it. Those who might be triggered should be allowed to opt out, of course.
I think that's the major point, we learn a lot about colonialism. . . but we should instead be learning a lot about invasion.
Jeremy Jones “white man bad” is the opposite of what they teach in Australia. Hence why they still call it “colonisation” instead of “invasion” and still insist that Captain Cook “discovered” Australia
@afootineachworld a lot of schools have kids watch rabbit proof fence in early highschool, which is a good thing.
Beautiful work Ryan, You've impressed me yet again. The neverending flow of professional content you deliver to us will never cease to amaze me.
This film was brilliant and this was really great analysis of it! Excellent work Ryan!
i watched this movie and im so glad you brought it to my attention! . thanks. I dont under
stand how you havnt done a vid about Mandy yet!!!
Oh yeah, this movie was definitely brutal. I had heard that the beginning was a hard watch, and thought that I made it through after watching what happened in the first 10 minutes. No. It got way fucking worse, peaking around the half hour mark. And that is not to say the rest of the movie is a walk in the park...
This is one hell of a movie, and not one that everyone is going to make it through, but it definitely needs to be talked about more. It deserves the attention. Absolutely a sleeper gem of a movie for 2019.
Thanks man for another great video.
It’s probably the best film that I never want to see again
You know it’s a good day when Ryan uploads
Watched this just the other day! Perfect timing. Such an amazing (and depressing) film
Given its nature its hard to call this one of my favorite movies of 2019, but it definitely had the most impact.
I haven’t even watched the video and I already clicked the like button bc holy shit!! Finally someone is talking about this masterpiece of a film! Truly one of the most visceral movies I’ve ever seen.
watched this last week, incredible
Please talk about Apostle & Brimstone, also a colony period movies.
Apostle was great, I've never seen anyone talk about it, or even know it exists haha
Sounds amazing, never going to watch it... ever.
Dont. Beyond horrific.
I just did it today on a whim cause it was on Hulu. Been seeing it since this video was made and always ignored it. Worth it! Watch it. I suggest watching it alone though.
I paused this video at 1:51 because I realized I need to watch the movie and I wanna go in blind. The Babadook is hands down the best horror film I've seen--it's not just 'good for a horror movie', it's an excellent film in general. It's such a deep character study and intimate exploration of the theme of grief. Well written characters and plots are exactly what I look for in movies. Now that I know The Nightingale is by the same creator, I GOTTA check it out. Thanks Ryan!
Ok, so I waited for over a year so I can watch it with my best friend who also loved the Babadook... and we were both EXTREMELY disappointed. The protagonist became impossible to root for and the second half of the film was so aggravating and ridiculous. The movie didn't spend enough time diving into the protagonist's psyche to really help us empathize with her increasingly stupid actions and the gritty realism it went for in the beginning just completely fell apart. It's like the writer/director only had the first act figured out and then just winged the rest, not being able to make up her mind on what kind of story she wanted to tell. My friend and I felt more and more frustrated as the movie went on and we both would've preferred Billy to be the protagonist instead. At least he's not a dumb fuck.
Ryan Hollinger - This was amazing, thank you for the recommendation. I tend to have seen most films you review and love watching your take. Whenever you praise one that I haven't seen, I make sure to buy/stream it right away. I paused this video when you said spoilers were coming, as I knew from what you were saying that this was something I want to see with fresh eyes.
This tale was harrowing, brutal, and honest. I read the controversy where people left the screening, but feel this topic is so important to tackle. And the atrocities that people objected to are still happening today. The assaults on an occupied people continue to happen, it is just the powerful countries that refuse to be held to account. UK and US are still committing grave war crimes and will continue to do so. Where is the justice? Where are our citizens demanding those in power to be held accountable? When will we figure out that the war machine is so wasteful and hurtling us to demise?
And such an interesting power struggle with the officer training the boy that there are races below you and worth nothing. Sad to think our species has built society on the idea that the 'other' isn't of the same value as you. That the rich deserve more. That the colour of your skin, cultural traditions, religious beliefs are tied to who is better than who.
This film has really left me thinking...
And now to watch the rest of this review.
This is one of the most under-appreciated films I've ever seen.
I watched the first 3 minutes then rented and watched the movie. It was great, really brutal and deep in a lot of different interesting ways. Thanks for the recommendation matey
Nice new intro mate, really cool
Picked the hell up. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.