913. Frame Rate: The Visitor (2007)
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The You know, it's very, very upsetting and frustrating intentionally, so Kafka-esque in some ways, but I'd call this also ironically a cozy movie |
| 0:39.4 | just in that it's one of those movies that's the kind of movie when we talk about how they |
| 0:45.0 | don't make movies like this anymore I mean this kind of movie do you feel what I'm saying |
| 0:50.3 | I do feel what you're saying or was this just an upsetting movie I mean it's designed to piss you up I also feel what you're saying. Or was this just an upsetting movie? I mean, it's designed to piss you |
| 0:56.2 | off. I also feel like Swam gets on a plane for a single day and I have to cover this shit. Oh, really? |
| 1:04.0 | No, no, no. I actually really enjoy it. I had never seen it. And what we're talking about is 2007's |
| 1:10.5 | The Visitor. This is Fram Rate. I'm Abe Epperson. I'm Michael Swam. Do you have the soft spot for Jenkins that most of us do? Absolutely. He's a treasure. And this is his first, like, Dickie Jank. Come on. Main role. Joey Pants with a Dickie Jank on the inside. His jank. If he was |
| 1:28.0 | dicky, he could be inside Joey Pants. But Joey Pants is not in this movie. I digress and I'm |
| 1:34.0 | sorry. I would like to talk about the visitor. Yeah. A Richard Jenkins vehicle. Because the |
| 1:40.2 | thing is that when you get on a plane and you're like, okay, I want to get off this fucking plane. |
| 1:46.5 | You should watch a film about getting out of a thing to another thing. |
| 1:50.7 | Like that's what this movie is, right? |
| 1:53.2 | Is he transitions from, like rat race. |
| 1:56.9 | Like, he just wants to get the fuck out of there. |
| 2:00.4 | Right? |
| 2:00.7 | Like, that's the whole thing well i mean if |
| 2:03.2 | you want me to nutshell it no well who's he not richard jenkins you mean the guy who's in custody |
| 2:08.8 | it's the story of because and here's what i mean by cozy type of mid-budget film we don't make |
| 2:16.2 | anymore that feels novel likelike but when I say |
| 2:19.9 | novel-like it uses the medium of film to pop off visual postcards that mean things which is what |
| 2:26.8 | I thought Abe and I loved the most I love it and I saw a ton in here but Abe is alluding to the |
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