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The Seasoning House
Stalag 17
Nice observation
The Wolf House (2018)
I thought the billiards room was the most suspenseful.
When Virginia has Peter tied up in the chair:
Peter - “What’s the spider do now?”
Virginia - “Now the spider does a little dance for the bug. She has to tease him, torment him, and make him wiggle, so that his juice will taste better.”
Peter - “Virginia, I think we better play another game.”
Closed. 👍
Bump. One more ☝️
It was a bit confusing about which ‘Barry’ was in the barrel when John shows Jamie Gavin’s dead body in the shed (John says to Jamie “Come and say hello to Barry.”). I assume we’re to infer it’s the transvestite Barry we see throughout the film, especially with the inclusion of the deleted scene of Robert attacking Barry.
However, at about 33:55 of the film during the scene where Barry is informing John of names and addresses of deviants in the area, he mentions another Barry - Barry Stone at 203 Bourke Road. “Chucks kids parties for all the methadone mothers. He’s got one pocketful of jubes. The other pocket’s cut out, and he’s playing snakes. They don’t know where their kids are. They don’t know where he is.”
1. Violent Night (2022)
2. Jack Frost (1997)
3. Black Christmas (1974)
4. silent night deadly night (1984)
5. The Ref (1994)
6. Rare Exports (2010)
7. Santa's Slay (2005)
8. The Ice Harvest (2005)
9. Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
10. Bad Santa (2003)
11. The Children (2008)
12. the parts you lose (2019)
13. Trapped in Paradise (1994)
1. Violent Night (2022)
2. Jack Frost (1997)
3. Black Christmas (1974)
4. Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)
5. The Ref (1994)
6. Rare Exports (2010)
7. Santa's Slay (2005)
8. The Ice Harvest (2005)
1. Wednesday (2022) - Christina Ricci
2. Suspiria (2018) - Jessica Harper
Not so sure about #4.
In the commentary, the director when talking about the store’s name says:
“There was a lot of discussion about what the name of the store was going to be. I wanted it to have the word save in it because do I feel like Sy ultimately sort of saves this family from themselves.”
It’s possible the director sees this family as being saved and continuing on together after the movie.
Also possibly intimating the word ‘cypher’.
Robin Williams mentions Sy being a cypher on the commentary track:
Robin Williams: “…Plus I think with a character like Sy because he’s such a cypher that people read into things a lot of times because he’s not predictable and there is a kind of a complexity but it’s also unreadable. Like you (the director, Mark Romanek) said a guy who seems to be a good man but does something you know very violent but yet doesn’t pursue the violence completely. Has a feeling that he is righteous in his way but also realizes that he’s crossed over the boundaries of behavior and at the end has you know lost everything he has to hold onto.”
Mark Romanek: “But in some ways he’s not only lost it but he’s sort of sacrificed it for the sake this family.”
Robin Williams: “To try and shake them out of this kind of “everything is wonderful” and you know say “No it isn’t. Here’s the reality” and basically be vengeful and inflict it upon them like you said and in the end loses himself.”
Regarding the photo of the woman - during the food court scene on the commentary track, the director says “Poor guy has to invent an alternate family for himself because the real one is just too horrifying for him to deal with.”
In the commentary, after Robin Williams draws attention to this part by saying “this was always a weird moment when you cut to the horse”, the director (seemingly reluctantly) says “These things are meant to be ambiguous. I don’t really like to explain them away. It’s just… reminds him once again he’s like the guy that’s going to come in and save the day on horseback, you know.”
They actually have an EP of Christmas songs (and a Hanukkah song) in case you’re interested in more:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mMIzJTCWwYBlIPgdIS-Cvm5ndI8WuRvzU
1. Human Wheels - John Mellancamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWMmxyKOR0&ab
2. Human Behaviour - Björk
https://youtu.be/p0mRIhK9seg
👍. Start up another bakers dozen, your choice.