#489 - Meet Me in Helsinki

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Your coworkers are spying on you. Your boss won't let you keep the expired food. The coffeeshop is charging you an arm and a leg to rent a laptop. In Aki Kaurismäki's funny and wonderful FALLEN LEAVES (2023), can a budding romance survive the everyday indignities of life under capitalism? PLUS: What would a British West Wing look like? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus TORONTO: See Will introduce The Dragon Lives Again (1977) at the Fox Theatre on February 23 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/the-important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-the-dragon-lives-again/

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0:00.0	Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I quite want to be,
0:06.0	a mountain so lofty, you're treetop so tall.
0:13.0	If you're wondering, Luke is showing me the ads for Sound of Freedom on Amazon Prime.
0:18.0	Are you planning to revisit? I mean, these are two of my favorite brands.
0:21.7	Operation Underground Railroad and Amazon coming together to combat child sex trafficking.
0:27.2	Amazon is actually really promoting it very aggressively. Like, I've seen ads that are not Amazon
0:31.7	ads for it, but... Well, I mean, in fairness to Amazon, it is one of...
0:35.8	Tell me again about Woke Capital. Yeah, it is one of the ten biggest movies of the year.
0:40.1	So it is only natural that they would promote it.
0:43.2	I mean, fuck, I saw a lot of ads for The Flash on Crave, and it made half as much money as Sound of Freedom did.
0:48.2	But did we ever establish whether Sound of Freedom, like...
0:51.6	It made dollars and cents it made.
0:53.8	Okay, like... It made dollars and cents it made. Okay, well...
0:54.7	I would actually feel bad about watching Sound of Freedom at home, like on a streaming
0:59.7	app or something, because I have to imagine that it's not the same version we saw in
1:03.6	theaters, because you'll recall the version we saw in theaters ended with Jim Kavisal, speaking
1:08.7	to the audience directly, imploring us to all buy tickets.
1:12.4	And he put a QR code on screen.
1:14.5	Yeah, yeah, folks, we've had a lot of fun tonight, but you know what's not fun, child sex
1:18.0	trafficking.
1:18.7	And there are over 300 trillion children being trafficked in the U.S. right now, the U.S. alone.
1:24.6	He put a QR code on screen to invite us, to invite all of our friends.
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