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Today, Explained
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🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe this is one of the last times I'll be saying this for the year |
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| 0:18.0 | It's the most wonderful time of the year to go see movies because all the good ones are finally coming out |
| 0:26.0 | I want you you my bad |
| 0:27.6 | Say worthy, but that's what this show is about those worst pat talk ever |
| 0:32.3 | But also maybe a repulsive one some people claim that the atrocities we commit in our fiction are those inner desires |
| 0:41.3 | Which we cannot commit in our controlled civilization |
| 0:46.9 | The house that Jack built is a super super violent new movie from a filmmaker named Lars von Trier |
| 0:54.2 | You might know Lars from his last movie named Vomaniac |
| 0:57.6 | It's featured a lot of unsimulated sex the house that Jack built goes less heavy on the sex and instead doubles down on violence |
| 1:06.6 | It's so violent that there were mass walkouts when it's screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year |
| 1:13.9 | Alyssa Wilkinson was there for Vox and if you don't want to hear just how brutally violent this movie is |
| 1:21.9 | Please skip the next 20 seconds or so of the show |
| 1:28.3 | I mean the unrated cut is really really disturbing one of the actresses like he slices her breasts off and makes a purse out of them |
| 1:37.0 | He like dismember's two children and then forces the mother to feed things to them |
| 1:42.0 | I mean, it's like really disgusting. Wow |
| 1:45.9 | It's worse than anything you would normally see in an R rated film even a very gory like horror film |
| 1:51.8 | The house that Jack built finally hits theaters today |
| 1:54.6 | But what you'll see if you go see it is not the movie that Lars von Trier made the one that caused walkouts |
| 2:00.0 | This is a totally censored version the motion picture association of America |
| 2:05.9 | aka the MPAA stepped in and put the kai Bosch on the director's cut |
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