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This is number 433 for those of you playing the home game. Welcome. My name is Rob. I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
And we have a little education today.
Very excited about this. But I'm not alone joining me across the desk as he tends to do from time to time is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who was with me as I watched this next film. You know it was fun, don't go, but it's mom and you know I'm going to call him don for it.
Education is important.
Yeah, I got plenty of it. I can always use them more.
Whenever we do one of these, it is to review something. This is no exception. This one's a little bit different because the film we're going to review for you in this particular episode is actually available currently on the Netflix.
It is called 22 July.
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Now this is different on a couple of different levels.
Number one, this is directed by Paul Greengrass.
You may know him. There's a bunch of different films that he's done, but you would probably know him from United 93, the Born All to Medium, Jason Bourne.
Yeah, plus the Captain Phillips, you are correct.
This, just like United 93, just like Captain Phillips, this is based on a true story from a book that was called One of Us.
This is as the title takes states 22 July 2011.
This was the day of the worst terrorist attack in Norway's history where over 70 people were killed and over another 200 were wounded as two separate incidents happen by the same person.
Where a car bomb was set off in front of the parliament building and then a bunch of children teenagers were gunned down at a summer camp just outside of the house.
It was the worst shooting in Europe since World War II.
Correct, but the worst terrorist attack ever there.
I'm not going to run this cast because most of these people you wouldn't know.
Then this is told from three different storylines.
You have it from the standpoint of the perpetrator of these horrible events.
His name is Anders Bering-Brevick, who's played by Anders Danielson-Lee.
Then you also have from the standpoint of one of the victims who survives with his brother.
You have, I don't know what happened here, they've done things around on me here.
Torhe is the younger brother and he is played by Isaac Bakkel-Agen.
Then you also, and his entire family, he's the younger brother.
Then the one who is really injured, Jonas Strand-Grivly-Grivly.
Yes, he plays the older brother.
He is shot five times, and it's about him and his recovery both mentally and physically.
Then you also have Gear Lipstad played by John Oldgarden.
He's the guy that ends up having to defend Anders.
Then you have a third thing going on, where you have Olaji Furseth, who plays the Prime Minister,
Jan Stoltenberg.
This runs, what did we say on this?
223.
I was very, very impressed by this, because I mean there's not much more you need to know.
There's these three and how their entire lives end up intertwining as the fallout from this event happens.
I did not know about this incident.
I had no idea.
Really?
So I was intrigued going in because I didn't know this happened, I wanted to know more about it.
But I didn't want to read too much into it because I kind of wanted to go into this cult as I could.
Really?
Yes.
I heard about it and read about it and saw about it.
When they happened, I remember that whole thing.
Well, I try to think of...
This was a time where I wasn't...
I was in kind of a transitional point.
I was between jobs.
I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the news.
And now I may have heard it at the time, but my mind didn't stick.
I was very impressed.
A lot of people I was talking to going into, I wouldn't say a lot, but a few.
Greengrass has this shaky cam thing he likes to do.
It's present here, but it's not prevalent.
There's a lot of steady cams.
Some people are playing like he needs to learn how to use a tripod.
But in this one, it wasn't that bad.
I thought it was shot really well.
This thing grabbed my attention and didn't let go.
I was fascinated all the way through this.
I felt that...
And I'm sure that there are some things in this film that were...
Done for dramatic effect.
But there was never a point where I was like, okay, that's a little much.
Like, everything they did, I felt fit with what was going on.
That kept me engaged.
And I hate to say the words, I enjoyed this film because it's...
That's not what I was saying.
But I thought this was a very, very good film.
It's just like saying, I enjoyed Schindler's list.
It's just weird to say.
You know what I mean?
Talk right into that thing one.
For me, I enjoyed Schindler's list.
I'm proud to say that.
I enjoyed it.
It's just kind of weird to say.
It's what I'm saying.
Do the content.
Right.
I really...
Here's the thing I saw about this film.
I did something very rare.
Because I don't wear a watch, and I didn't want to bug you.
You're never a bother, sir.
Well, I didn't want to bug you during the film for a reason.
Because I know you have the watch gauge.
What was your watch gauge?
It was up there.
51 minutes.
51 minutes.
Okay.
Because you asked me right after.
Yeah.
Here's the thing that I did is the film starts off like the day before the event.
And it really shows the perpetrator.
And then it shows the day of when it hit.
It shows him leaving the cars, lighten the bomb.
Going by by.
Boom.
He's already on the way to the island.
Right.
And then it shows him driving at the island in a police uniform.
Getting on the island and bang, bang, bang, unfortunately.
And I looked at the clock.
Because I knew this was going to be a long film over two hours.
And I looked and I saw that it was like 36, 40 minutes roughly.
Give or take depending on the film started when the shooting was done.
Right.
And I wanted to know because I go, okay, this part's done.
What are they going to do for the next roughly hour and 50 minutes or hour and 40 minutes.
And then I started watching the film and I started to understand.
And the thing is in real life, the bombing and the shooting starting was about two hours apart in real life.
Right.
And it shows it's probably about five, ten minutes in the film.
And then the shooting probably has about 20 minutes of the film to where he's arrested and all that.
But in real life, the shooting took it was over almost 90 minutes in real life.
But here's the thing.
Within that four hours span in real time, in real life, what length do they have on the recovery?
It could be a lifetime.
And this film really shows that for 30 minutes, this few events, fast acting events in just a short span of time can affect you in the long road to recovery.
And that's what I put in my written view at www.theclubastpodcast.com.
That is a little thing we like to call our website.
Ding.
Can I have the ding.
Yeah, I know.
I was trying to help you on it because you're trying to find it.
I got it.
Okay.
But that's why I think the point is trying to make is after a quick few events, like a car crash could be quick boom.
And then the after effects could go on and on.
And I think this intentionally shows that this is a long film shown the long recovery of like the person who was the...
What was the character's name again?
I'm sorry.
Oh, I deeply apologize.
Played by a villain.
Was it V-Call?
Vigil.
Yeah, played by a strand of Bravali.
Here's his recovery.
That's the rest of the movie.
And how it shows the pain.
And this film pulls no punches.
There's some tough scenes in this film.
That shooting scene.
It pulls no punches.
I mean, there's a few scenes where they do go for gore effect.
But you knew like somebody you're getting shot because you heard it or you saw flashbangs through the wall.
But it still shows people shot.
And when it shows the main character being shot.
It pulls no punches.
But it shows his recovery over the next year or whatever.
And that's why I think the film is good about it.
Here's a short event, long recovery.
And it shows that this guy is going through a tough time trying to get the basics of life back of being able to walk.
Being able to move his hands.
I mean, think about it.
You were shot five times.
You were shot five times, isn't it?
Yeah, I apologize.
But you'd have to go through a recovery like that.
And it's just in it.
It pulls no punches.
And then the trial.
Yeah.
And what I've got to talk about that for just a minute.
What I liked about that is it gave me enough that I could understand his pain and what he was going through without going too much into it.
I never felt like they were playing up to it in the point.
Yeah.
I like that.
Like, I really could empathize with him.
I was like, oh my goodness, what he's going through.
Without like, okay, we get it move on.
That's what I really dug about it.
And I like the, I'm going to call it the snowmobile scene.
Yes.
And that where climax is about the mental mentality of what he's dealt with having to deal with these physical disabilities.
Because of it, that was a very, very powerful scene.
I was like, this is real.
This is not glorified.
This is not he hob.
This is not sugar coated.
This is not Hollywood-nice.
This is probably what this guy was thinking.
And it showed really well.
And Jonah Strand probably does a great job here.
But I really want to talk about Anders Danielson Leigh.
Is it Leigh?
Leigh?
Leigh?
Yes.
He's my last name.
This guy was insanely good.
Yeah.
Where he played, he played as a private, the guy that is the perpetrator, the guy that...
I said in a different review of a different film that there is an actor in it that was scary good.
That's the only way I can describe Anders in this.
There were moments where I was...
And I said this in my written review, currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
When actors play roles, sometimes they have to immerse themselves in it.
And I often...
In this film, especially, I wonder how Anders Danielson Leigh was able to get this guy out of his head.
Because he played him so well.
Like, I went to the Wikipedia page on the guy and it was an artist rendering.
There was no picture of him.
So...
And I read a little bit about...
I mean, this is a guy that believes that what he's doing is right and he wants to be able to be in front of people.
But at the same time, the way he's portrayed, it made me wonder how much of this did this guy just play up for the cameras and how much did he truly believe in.
And I think that Anders played that really, really well.
Yeah, this guy had no empathy for what he did.
And I'm right up on real life.
There was like two people he spared.
And one, because he stood up to him, as a young kid stood up to him and said, you know, you shot my dad.
Don't do it.
And I think that's probably...
But there was one scene where it's right after the event that happened and he's in the first police station and they're questioning him, of course.
And he makes the point of, you know, these people are shot.
People wounded, there's people dead and he goes, before you're further, I cut my finger on some of this.
Yeah, and it's just like...
But I was like, oh, he played that one.
Very cold, very calculated.
Very calculated.
Just cared about himself, even though, you know, my little boo-boo and how my god is...
I don't really want to go into too much, but it's like that playing that villain with that evil mentality who's cool, calm and collected.
It makes no beast and no emotion of empathy at all.
He knocked it out the park.
Yeah, he was very, very good in this.
I also want to talk about John Old Garden playing Gear Lippestot, his lawyer.
His very reluctant, yeah, lawyer.
If there's a downside for me, it's I would have liked to have known more about his story.
Maybe back off the Prime Minister a little bit, because they don't really spend a lot of time with the Prime Minister,
but you do follow his storyline a little bit.
I would have had less of him and more of Lippestot.
I think they had the right amount for the Prime Minister.
He wasn't there long.
He was only, I mean, when the attack happened, but after the attack, he was only there once or twice doing the press things,
and I think that showed that part well.
I think he was in the right amount of time, but the attorney maybe they didn't want to, because it's not his story until he gets there.
Right, but I'm talking about that from that point forward, though.
Yeah, I mean, it does show some personal stuff.
Yeah, but I would have liked to have seen some more personally.
Yeah, I could see your point, but any downside for you?
Here's the problem.
Usually, after the big events of the first 40 minutes, it's a long movie.
It goes.
See, I read that in your review, and I just didn't see that.
But I did because, yeah, some fast action, boom, boom, boom.
And then it's just this slowly-cover-y slow trial, but that's the way life is.
And that's what I usually say if this drags too long, it's like it was burning and put on the brakes and it just coasted all the way back for the rest of the film.
That's what I thought about it, but I thought that's making the point about how the recovery is.
And I really enjoyed it this time.
This time, I'm not knocking it.
I'm just saying that I thought the last hour, 40 minutes was kind of slow-moving compared to the first 40.
Okay.
But still, I like the message she's trying to get.
See, I just didn't have the problem you had from a pacing standpoint.
I thought it was paced really, really well.
And I'll give you the fantastic thing.
It was my plus one at this.
As she tends to be.
Yeah.
So she's my wife.
Love you, hun.
But the thing is, she even made a point.
She's like, how much one times left when it's like after the two hour mark?
I think it got kind of long for her, too.
That's what she thought about it.
That's fair.
But, yeah.
That's her.
But yeah.
Is there an opening?
Anything else you want to cover?
I think we're good.
All right.
Since this is a little bit different, because in some places, like in Dallas, you'll have a bit of a limited theatrical release.
Most places, you're going to go straight to Netflix for this.
So we can't do this the way we would normally do it.
So we are still going to ask two questions.
The first question is, will we watch this film again?
If the answers know, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, since this is going straight to Netflix,
the follow-up question becomes, what kind of a priority would you put this in your queue?
Because I got a lot of stuff in my Netflix, too.
Yeah.
Just because I don't have a lot of time and do stuff.
So, Don, would you see 22 July again?
Oh, yeah, that's definite.
Since it's on Netflix, where would you put it in your queue?
That's, I didn't even think about like that.
But there's some theatrical.
So I would say Twilight for the theatrical people who get in the theater.
But on the queue, I would say, I'd like to 80 percentile.
It's not going to be the immediate I want to see right now.
I have to see, this is my show of the week.
But it's up there to be seen.
I would see it again.
For me, I think I'm right about there with you.
I'd put it in that upper 20 percent of my queue.
But it's definitely one I would highly recommend.
This movie is very well done.
It's very well shot.
It's very well acted.
Paul Greengrass directs 22 July.
For this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
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