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504 - Me Me Madness (3/8/21)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

For #InternationalWomensDay we review a film by Hollywood’s newest female auteur, who just happens to be the wife of former Treasury Secretary/Suicide Squad producer Steve Mnuchin. Yes, it’s Louise Linton’s “Me You Madness,” a film that dares ask the question “what if a bisexual woman HAD mental health issues?”

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0:00.0

And I also loved American Psycho and I think right east analysis is a genius and I loved

0:08.8

the opening of that film, you know, where he talks about, you know, has specific his morning

0:13.8

routine is. And I started to think about that with like a female serial killer and then

0:19.9

I was like, well, why can't she be this really boss-empowered girl who, you know, runs a

0:26.0

hedge fund and I wanted to take to the gender stereotypes and I think that's what I remember.

0:48.8

Hello and greetings everybody and happy international women's day. To mark this occasion we have

0:55.0

decided to highlight, highlight a film that's a little bit different. How is it a little bit

1:01.2

different? Because it is the product of a female otur, someone a writer, director, and star who

1:09.1

is bringing, you know, to the cinema a vision that is a purely female vision, unclouded by

1:16.5

by, by, by bro influences, judgments or points of view. I'm talking of course about the new art film

1:25.7

I would describe it as, you meet madness which is written, directed, and starring the wonderful

1:35.6

Louise Linton who you may know as being the wife of our former Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchin.

1:41.7

And Steve Manuchin is certainly part of the Choppo Canon, you know, I mean, suicide squad was one

1:47.0

of our first big movie episodes and he produced that and did he produce this movie as well?

1:51.8

I don't think he did which is, I'm pretty telling, like keep me away from this shit please.

1:58.0

I'm only involved in good movies. I do see his touch here though. Like even if he didn't produce

2:05.1

that there is a Manuchin sheen to it. Oh my god. Oh my god. Flat sheen that, yeah.

2:11.1

I would describe it that way. I would describe it as a soul that the movie has.

2:18.8

I would describe it as a soul that the movie has. Yes, this movie has Manuchin sheen all over it.

2:22.1

By that I mean it's like it's sort of very gauzy neon and just sort of looks like a frog man.

2:30.3

There's a frog man's frog fingers all over this. Your TV or monitor will never be the same

2:35.6

after watching it. There's so many washed out whites and like weird brightnesses and like the

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