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let me tell you about Blink twice blink
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twice is about tech billionaire Slater
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King and he meets a cocktail waitress at
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this party her name is Freda her and her
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struggling girlriend Jess uh are just
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their waitresses at this big event with
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all these rich billionaires and on a
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whim Slater King played by Channing
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Tatum is so taken with freedom
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beauty that he decides hey why don't you
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come along on this journey they go off
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to an exotic island where they eat they
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have breakfast mimosas exotic dinners
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they're drinking all day Shots by the
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pool it's an idilic Paradise the men are
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while the women are at the spa all day
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but things are not quite right something
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is weird weird about this
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island there and there's the the tone is
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that there's some evil in the background
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fra doesn't know what it is Jess and her
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friend chess doesn't know what it is
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things feel off but they're just
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partying and having fun all day um their
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phones are collected by the woman who
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seem to be running things in the house
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played by Gina Davis she says hey you
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gotta take your phones you won't miss
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them and then they just have fun they
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take Polaroids of each other because
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there is no there are no phones they
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take Polaroids and I will say this movie
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Kravitz looks beautiful I mean the
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opening scene is this weird where
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but they have these tables and
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everyone's dressed in tuxes like it
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looks like the most beautiful
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photography from Instagram but it's a
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movie but here's and then and then when
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when you learn what's really going on at
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this island this what kind of Island
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could this be what things are happening
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to the women and things really get
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weird when freda's friend Jess
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disappears and no one remembers
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Jess it's like bad things are happening
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and their memories are being
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warning this is this is we've seen
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trigger warnings on entertainment right
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like in the past this is from a website
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pedestrian.tv here's the tri trigger
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warning from from this film I'll read it
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to you this this is how I knew something
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was weird in the first 10 seconds we get
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warning here it is and this is from
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Amazon Studios put this on on the
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beginning of the film trigger warning we
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are proud to finally share blink twice
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with audiences in theaters this weekend
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blink twice is a psychological Thriller
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about the abuse of power while this is a
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fictionalized story it contains mature
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themes and depictions of violence
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including sexual violence this may be
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upsetting or triggering for some viewers
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for resources that offer support visit
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film okay that was the opening and it it
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does not disappoint in that yes there is
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it is a thriller there is sexual
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violence but I think no better or worse
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than anything we've seen in other um
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what you would call erotic
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Thrillers I mean it's kind of shocking
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some of the violence and the violence
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isn't just against women by the way
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there are scenes where men are uh uh
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receiving the recipients of said
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but from that opening I thought okay
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whatever trigger warnings we're doing
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land acknowledgments and Trigger
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warnings now for movies fine and the
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movie really had me the first half of
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this film up to The Disappearance of
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is pretty good thriller like the tone
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was great it goes off the s in the
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second half with a super
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lexury super lexury me to like message
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that you're like oh my god did the HR
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department write the second half of the
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film and the final scene of the movie is
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so God awful I got up and walked out I
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film it's a super it's it's a huge
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lecture on I don't need to be le Ed that
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sexual violence is bad because I
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know and we have seen things in this
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movie in other films from the past yeah
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we kind of know that stuff is bad it's a
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it's in a movie it's not being
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celebrated at all but the way this and
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one of the unbelievable unbelievable
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film is that Freda is played by Naomi
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Aki who has this sort of gap tooth she's
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cute she is nowhere she's not like
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sending Tatum as Slater King is like I'm
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with a Top Model super goddess the women
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in this film I hate to say this I kind
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of mid with the exception of Adria or
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arjan who plays Sarah like how do these
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mid women get to this island you know
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the twist at the end is so
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dumb it's like a that's why I say the HR
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department of Amazon wrote the ending of
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this movie and demanded it it's terrible
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luxury I you can probably tell that from
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the trailer but my God that I should
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have known a trigger warning should be
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hey get ready to hate this movie I I I
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despised it I walked out everyone I saw
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with was like uh what did we just see
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it's it's a streaming film that is
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and I could not hate this movie Enough
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it's a two out of 10 at best but I will
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say Zoe Kravitz um she made the movie
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good it's the message nature of it that
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killed it for me so I cannot recommend
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link twice I remember uh last week we
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were talking about what we're covering
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this week and I specifically mentioned
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uh I do not want to see bling twice I
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absolutely don't want to see bling twice
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and you're confirming every reason why I
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didn't want to see link twice because
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the Thriller horror nature of it okay
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but it it's this you just know there's a
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lecture coming yeah and why would I
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subject myself to a lecture why would I
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pay money for a lecture uh yeah
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basically what you find out is they're
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being drugged with a drug that makes you
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forget and that's it so and then the
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women twist the women twist around on
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the men at the end so yes it ends
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literally with a YZ queen I'm not joking
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it literally ends with may as well have
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ended with a with a yes Queen yes yes
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yes so there you go so all I can say is
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Blink twice be warned don't go see this
