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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
And I enjoy film.
Why are the reason we do this?
But I'm not alone in this particular episode, Jordan and me across the desk as he tends
to do from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and a guy that's
a guy that's like smoothies.
He likes movies like the guys like movies like.
You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and even don't want him to come
down for the welcome sir.
Considering we do reviews, I think that's a good thing.
Yeah, well, you know, it's coming for you.
Yeah.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something and this is no exception.
The director a few years ago of Bell brings us a new film, as she is Amma Asante.
And I say that correctly, I believe I did.
And it is called a united kingdom before we start this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
We have to think Austin and everybody are good friends at Slyfox.
See me, see me, see me, see me, we're such fans of those guys are so good to us.
We love them.
And they let us watch films before they come out so we can tell you about them.
So we can help you make good decisions about your heart and dollar.
Here's what you need to know.
This takes place starting in the late 1940s.
There's two countries involved here.
The country that would become Botswana and England.
Where Syretzee comma played by the great David O'Yellowo is going to school.
From Selma, the every credible film ship.
He was also in Queen of Katoi this past year.
Yes.
He is about to take the throne as king of his people.
But he's getting educated so that he can be the best king that he can be.
While he's in London going to school, he meets Ruth Williams played by the great Rosemann
Pike.
They fall in love and get married.
This is a true story.
This is based on actual events you asked her act.
This is an interracial marriage.
This is the 1940s.
So they're trying to deal with this on two fronts, one from London and two in his homeland
in what is now Botswana.
Because they're just as lack of accepting as they are where they are in university.
And this deals with not only the political climate that he has to deal with, but also the social
more is.
And even some real estate issues as well.
Because they're also caught between England and South Africa at a time when a part
time is starting to become a thing.
In South Africa.
Botswana in South Africa at that time.
They share a border.
Yeah, not best buddies, not best buddies.
And that's about as that's about as deep as I think I want to go.
Because you really can kind of fall down a rabbit hole here when you start talking about
this film.
But a couple of things you need to know about this film that I don't know that you know.
The home that they lived in and what is now Botswana is actually the home that Syracia
and Ruth lived in.
They've been in the film.
They actually use the real home and where she gave birth to their daughter, same
hospital.
They use a lot of the same locations.
Also David O'yellow was wife is in this film who is also an actor.
She is, I don't get the name for you, so I'm sure I have a correct Jessica O'yellow
who played the wife of the antagonist.
So he has actually himself in an interracial marriage.
Yes.
It maybe even gives him a deeper perspective of what's happening here.
Very interesting on a lot of levels this film.
That being said, yes.
I at one point walked out to make sure the rest room is at current health codes.
Thank you for doing that.
Oh yeah, I didn't really want to do it in the theater.
Yeah, yeah, but thanks for looking down for it.
Ran into a friend of mine and the sentiment to me was one that I shared from a pacing
with an opponent.
The first two thirds of this film taken a long time.
Now granted the watch meter sits at 25 minutes, which isn't bad, which isn't bad.
It's not five minutes.
It's not 45 minutes.
Right.
So it's kind of in the middle.
But I would still shock that we were only at the 25 minute mark, because this
is a solid two hours, our 51, but let's just round down.
I felt that there was a little too much exposition in some places and not enough others.
I think that the time spent getting the courting down took a long time.
I can see that.
Don't say I agree 100%, but I could possibly see that.
I was more interested in the legalities part of this, because at one point he does get
banished from his own country.
Which is true knowledge.
That is true.
That happened.
Because the part of the story actually happened.
I was more interested in the legalities of that and more about kind of like in denial
that we saw last year, where it was more about the courtroom part of it and the lawyers
trying to get things done correctly and get things around the right track.
I would have been more interested in that.
But maybe that's just me.
Now granted.
I said this in my written review, which is located at www.doptoclobhousepodcast.com.
Which is our website.
I could watch David O'Yellowwell and Rosemann Pike read the phone book because they're
amazing.
Yes.
I'm a huge fan of both of these people.
But it made up for it just a little bit, but not enough.
But not enough for me to go.
It kept me interested, but I still think pacing wise it dragged a little bit for me.
All right.
I would kind of agree the same.
I mean, I understand why the movie was so long and I understand what they wanted to
tell in this film.
And I think everything that they put in there was important to the story.
Okay.
There are some things that were not included in this film that happened in real life because
I read the Wikipedia that last night after we were seeing the film.
And like the management, I'll give you an example is that he actually became a film
like farmer, which did not show, you know, before this whole.
So there's a few things that they did not show, but I understand where they got the
important points.
And I think the film really hit the important points to really tell the story and what
the point they're trying to get across on this.
But I think on the other hand, like you're saying, the pacing is long.
You know, it's two hours.
It kind of feels like two hours.
And it's kind of like, okay, now they tell this part, now they tell this part, okay,
let's get to this part.
Let's finish this part, so this thing can get over.
So I agree on the pacing.
I mean, it kept me interested.
It's a good story.
It's great.
It's a great story.
And from what I saw when I read on Wikipedia, and I know what they say, you know, it's
on the internet.
It's true.
It's true.
Yeah.
But we're on the internet.
It wasn't really in historically correct on the lot of stuff.
So I think that they really try to tell the story of this guy in the big important points
of the story of the whole big picture.
I think visually, absolutely.
Oh, yes.
Show a children.
And beautifully.
It showed the home country beautifully.
I mean, the look was incredible.
The acting.
I mean, the two weeks hit it out of the park I have.
And these, and again, shot on location.
There was a little bit in another part of the world.
But a good chunk of this was shot in London and shot in Botswana with a lot of the locals.
Another thing I read on IMDB was they did a call for extras.
3,000 people showed up.
So I mean, this film gives you a genuine feel to everything.
And I really, really dug that out of it.
But again, for me, the downside is the pacing.
So it's kind of like where I used the example where it's a cargo in 50 miles per hour
in a 75 in the 70 zone.
I mean, it's acceptable, but let's pick up the pacing a little bit.
Yeah.
I agree with you.
I would agree that would be my one complaint also on that.
Yeah.
I mean, how do you say, well, you like something?
You like the story?
It kept you interested, but just kind of, it's still kind of going slow.
But it's not where I'm like, oh, my God, please get over.
But what's another thing I really respect about this film is in the last few years.
We've had a lot of films come out with this kind of subject matter.
And it's very domestic.
It's here.
Look, being able to look at a story like this from a different cultures point of view.
I thought was a very brave choice.
And I really, really respected that.
We're like, you know what, let's look at stories on how other parts of the world
we're dealing with this at the same time.
I mean, the think of they tried bringing South African to this thing.
What the, it started the apartment at the time, you know?
Which has also been covered in the many different films based on our life of Nelson Mandela.
But yeah, I mean, but being able to do this kind of a story specifically
from a more world point of view, I really, really respected.
And this comes from a book that's called Colorbar.
Okay.
And Colorbar, I think, you know, a United Kingdom is the subtitle.
But I just, I loved how we got to see it from a more world review and not just an American view.
Yeah, and it still kind of sees that same premise at the time where they've been brought up
the stuff about the Jim Pro laws in the United States.
It was meant to, let's, let's talk about it.
I mean, yeah, okay, we usually don't get to two personal.
Okay, that is true.
Well, sometimes, sometimes, but okay, let's, let's move to the empire out there right now.
The girl I'm dating is African.
She's African, okay?
She's from, you know, from Africa.
Literally, okay?
Absolutely.
So, I mean, am I in a, in a racial relationship right now, yes I am?
And I can just imagine, I see no real problems in today's society.
I mean, I might get a look here there from the old man or old woman, but it's not that big of a deal.
And I think of that person as a female.
So let's, you know, but does it make you see a story like this from a different angle?
Yeah, because in my aspect, like this and in the film Loving, which we saw recently, I mean,
if this, I wouldn't be able to do this 40 years ago, I mean, and from that aspect, loving
fairly recent does, does a film like this get over shadowed by a film like that to you?
Because I like that this is a release, a 2017 release because I think if they had released
this closer to when Loving was released, I think there would be an issue like with the
prestige and the illusion this come out.
No, I'm not even saying that.
I'm just saying that a film like this, which I, which I did enjoy, could get over shadowed
by a film like Loving that absolutely blew my mind.
I think given enough time between these two films, this film can get the respect, it deserves
and not have to live in the shadows of a film like that.
Yeah, because I think, you know, they're apart long enough and I think they're still like
you're saying, one's worldly, let's talk about what happened at home, but let's talk
about what happened 40 years ago in the other side of the earth, where it's still an issue
issue at the time.
I mean, you think about it today and some countries still.
It still is.
You're absolutely right.
You might be an issue.
You know, I mean, let's look about it.
Let's say Donald Trump wanted to marry Beyoncé, okay, I mean, what do we have to do?
Power company.
It is powerful.
But there would be some people that would look down upon that.
Yeah.
Absolutely right.
And it's, it's sad but true.
Yeah.
But I think films like this can help spark those kinds of conversations that I think are necessary
and maybe in certain areas that people wouldn't expect to have this kind of a conversation,
they can have this kind of a conversation because of a film that's done this well this
way.
And it really in some ways hits home with me personally, so I mean, but they do it well.
And I think I put this film did not try to be too preachy, which I put on, you are
correct.
Which I beg you.
I read review at www.couphousepodcast.com.
Amazingly.
That's our website.
Believe it or not.
So, it didn't get too preachy, but I think it's still there to get job as shown
the political plus the personal issues.
Yeah.
Anything else we want to cover for get to final analysis?
No.
The way we do the final analysis on the show, we're not going to give you a thumbs-up
thumbs-down, we're not going to give you a letter grades, numbers, anything like that.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire, they want us to go deeper, we
are going to go deeper.
Here's how this works.
I'm going to ask two questions.
Question number one, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then the way we would rate it from this spectrum, from best to worst,
all priced at a theater, twilight, matinee, early morning, second one of the dollar
theater, red box, Netflix, cable, Dom, would you see this again?
Oh, yes.
How far are you willing to go?
I want you to give it the matinee.
So you're right there on the edge?
Yeah.
A little bit a little bit away from the edge, because acting wasn't credible, the story
wasn't as credible, but just that kind of dragging.
That's the only thing I have.
I think I'm going to agree with you on that.
Yeah.
I think that apparently the truck driving by the studio agrees as well, but I would agree with
you.
This is a good matinee showing, which would also give you time afterwards, the kind
if you're with a group, to kind of discuss what you saw, because it's a very well-made film.
And if the story is very, very well-toe.
And I would like to say honestly that my plus one, who, the girl I watched had talked about
earlier, who's from Nigeria, literally, was born there.
We talked about it after the fact.
Oh, good.
On the way home, drive home last night.
So it's kind of like, you know, it is a discussion.
Yeah, it wasn't discussion piece for both of us.
It is director Emma Asantez, a united kingdom.
But before we end this whole thing, though, again, we have to think Austin and everybody
at slide five.
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