Kelsey McKinney
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It kind of is an ACAB movie in that she calls the police. They do not help her. And then they leave.
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But another thing that you've skipped over, at some point during this, before she calls the police... He picks her up over his shoulder, carries her outside and sets her down. And as he's doing this, the producers, God bless them, give us a shot from behind this man where he is like, I don't know, this man played fucking hockey or something. Like he is caked up. Like this man has a giant ass.
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He is cake the fuck up. He's huge. And he carries her outside like she's nothing. Yeah. And sets her down. And in that scene, there is not a hint of flirting. And I'm like, come on, man. No. No.
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shan't be leaving because i need to sell this in and meanwhile the ghost is like i just want to eat food this is like an incredible touch that this movie has in this one scene i was like pumping my fist i was like let's fucking go because he's eating an apple with a knife right like slicing pieces of an apple off to put into his mouth with like a giant bowie knife and
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And he's like, I'm real. And she's like, well, I don't think he's real. And he's like, well, what is real? And then she touches him and it's clear that he's not going to disappear. And then at some point, someone says the phrase, which I have written in all caps in my notes, all his senses are heightened upon his return.
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Yeah, I was like, the thing is, there are many, many senses and many kinds of eating, even.
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Yeah. I also have a note here that's in all caps that says they should make porn like this. You texted me that. Because I... At this point, I was like, all of the scripting in this scene is like, oh, they're going to fuck. And then you look at the timestamp and it's like, no. No. There's a whole hour and 15 minutes left of this movie. And also it's like cable, right?
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Right? Yeah. Purgatory is the end, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Nice purgatory. Beautiful. Very aesthetic. Yeah. There's also, like, a whole problem, which is that for the first, like, 20 minutes of the movie, it's really unclear what time period he comes from. Yes. Like, because the costuming is so bad, and he looks...
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like a 2016 caked up hipster yeah it's like it's like what like are you from the 1700s like when were you alive yes yes clearly someone asked this in a writer's room because the next scene we get is like her asking him questions and him being like oh like the volstead act like i was bootlegging like liquor into america it's like okay all right prohibition now we know where we are i love that thank you
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It's, like, partly about how bad prohibition was, but it's also, like, kind of moralistic in that it's, like, against crime. Right? Like, it's, like, he shouldn't be doing these crimes is, like, a major part of this. And I'm, like, I'm sorry... One funny joke he keeps making is that whenever someone says the word bootleg, he's like, I prefer the term rum runner. Yes.
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And I'm like, sorry, but being a rum runner is hot. Like you're doing a crime, but it's a hot crime that means we have parties at our house. So I'm like, you guys are all confused. Oh. You need to be more pro this man. You need to be more supportive.
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It is hot. The thing is, crimes for good are good. Robin Hood. It's giving Robin Hood. Bingo. It's also like, yeah, the whole thing with Prohibition was that rich people were still drinking and no one else was. So it's like actually doing like a little absinthe as a treat. Exactly. is good.
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Yeah. There's like another flashback here where it shows us like, He's like talking to his fiance in the past. Her name is Lily. And they're like, first off, they're like alone in the inn kissing in presumably 1919, which I'm like, that doesn't seem real to me at all. Not allowed. She also said something to him where she's like, the inn is perfect. It's part of why I fell in love with you.
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And I'm like, okay, so she wants your money, my dude. Like there are a lot of problems here with this relationship. Yeah. But the whole time they're in this flashback, it's like, okay, am I the viewer supposed to believe that he wants to be free so that he can be with Lily? Am I supposed to believe that he doesn't want to be free so that he can remember these memories?
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Like, what does this man want? And the answer is, it doesn't matter.
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Yes, yes. Content. There's a scene where he makes a lot of cocktails. Yes. Because someone question mark challenges his honor and then he's like, I'm the best bartender that's ever lived.
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Also, every drink he makes in the scene where he's making drinks is almost clear. And it's like, okay, I do believe that you're a good bartender, actually, because these are straight liquors. I'm scared to drink this drink. He's like, I need Fernette. And it's like, okay, man.
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Yeah, he's jacked. Reader, he's jacked. And then she just watches him iron his shirt. And I'm like, get out of his room. You're being rude.
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It looks like it is, but it's not. It's not. This whole movie. Gives the vibe of like, okay, imagine your friend is dating a really hot, giant man.
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And is always like kind of has a hot temper and everyone's like, what's up with this guy? Yeah. It's like, if that reality existed, and then this woman was like, what's a version of that reality that would explain his behavior that would allow me to keep dating him? Oh, it's that he's a ghost, actually. And his wife is dead, and that's why he's misbehaving.
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Listening and learning are important character traits in a man. And this man is like, at some point in the movie, I don't remember when this is, at some point in the movie, he says like... Women being so forward is very off-putting to me, right? Like them asking you out is very off-putting to me, but also I like it and wish I had it. And it's like, yes. Okay.
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So this is like, this is the fantasy, right? Is that I can change him. Exactly.
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Yeah. But unfortunately, the new information he gets while he's being a bartender is that his wife died, which, like, obviously she died. But that also she was pregnant.
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And that the baby died. Yes. And all of this is made more complicated by the fact that his wife married his brother after he died. Yes.
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This is definitely one of those things that I actually did find believable in this movie, where I'm like, oh, you're telling me the rum runner wants to have a rager at his house? What a surprise. Like, that is well within character. 100%. Oh, now that I've had three cocktails and remembered how much I love giving other people cocktails, I want to do more of that.
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Yes. Great Depression cocktails were like... Literally, they were drinking absinthe that made me hallucinate. Like, it was a different time. It was not like, oh, I'm doing my four, you know, adorable little cocktails that have six ingredients. It was like, we've poured gin into this cup. Here you go.
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prohibition plays a really big part in that story as well you know what i'm learning here is that you love prohibition like you the era because you're from chicago
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you create such a massive market which of course people flood it's a perfect time to honestly be gay do crimes like truly it's also like okay alcohol is banned and also like 60 of the population has trauma from world war one right like everyone's a little bit of an alcoholic yeah exactly it's like okay this is a note that i have highlighted in my document Which is, shouldn't this man smoke?
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You're right. He should. Why doesn't he smoke? He smokes nothing the whole movie. And I'm like, you're telling me a 1919 rum runner. Whose senses are heightened. Whose senses are heightened isn't just going to be chain smoking cigarettes. Like he absolutely is. But you're right for that here. There's not enough room. He doesn't have a little tobacco pipe. This was before vapes.
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So people had forgotten that tobacco was hot.
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They'd be like, you have to stop smoking these cigarettes inside. They're worse for you. Have this.
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Yeah. Imagine giving him a 10 milligram gummy and being like, good luck, babe. Oh, you want to eat more?
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Something's in the house that's not Daniel. She's like, there are whispers. Do you hear the whispers? And I'm like, at this point, I'm like, okay, is this a horror movie? Right? Like, are we actually going to turn? That could be fun. And then he decides that he's actually going to sleep in her room with her, except he doesn't sleep because he's a ghost. Yes.
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So he sits in her room and they do not kiss. No. It's an edging movie, which again... It's an edging movie. Porn.
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she clearly is you know the thing is this movie makes a whole thing about like well you couldn't possibly be in love with a ghost that's only there 12 days out of the year and i'm like for a girl boss no insane it actually could be a perfect relationship to just have a band that is from 1920 that you're in love with that you only see for the 12 days leading up to christmas like that's your two weeks of vacation no exactly with him then you go back to work
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And he can't like fuck around while he's not with you because he's in like ghost purgatory. He's not E&M.
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Because she's miserable. That's like the whole thing about these women is that they're miserable because they have jobs. And having jobs makes people miserable.
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Makes everyone miserable. Okay, so she goes back to Boston because a senator died? Question mark?
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I don't know. Her boss says she has to, so she does.
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But her boss, Katie's boss, does not take this well. No. He's like, you need to be here forever or else you won't get a promotion. The promotion is like, it's unclear to me what it is or if she really wants it. Yeah. Who cares? She is like clearly going back. There's never even really any question whether she's going back or not.
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They're crying. They're hugging. Yes. It's beautiful. And now we're, like, approaching... Christmas party. The first thing I would like to discuss is her hair. Okay.
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which is that first off she's wearing an insane outfit she's wearing a like t-length bright red dress yeah it has a like sweetheart neckline but also a strap and a shoulder cap so it's like just a deranged outfit but what's more deranged is the whole movie this woman has been wearing a wig with luscious hair right it looks great in every scene because it's a wig
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In this scene, the wig has been twisted into a side ponytail. One. One side ponytail for a formal event. The side ponytail is like, it's, it's like. It's crazy. It's like a fuck ass ponytail. It's so bad. It like looks like a ponytail you give your friend like to make her laugh. It's not real. It's. The way kids' hair looks after school.
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She's a beautiful girl. This outfit does nothing for her. This hairstyle does even less.
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And, like, the problem is, is that this is the outfit she's supposed to be in for their first kiss. yes that like they're gonna kiss in her room only kiss yeah and she's like but the whole time i was just like what is up with her hair no fix it fix it jesus you're correct i the way i forgot about this
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Oh, it's so bad. This is also one of those where it's like, you know what? I now believe that this character has no friends. Seeing this ponytail, I'm like, I 100% believe it. You have no friends because no friend of yours would allow you to wear your hair like that to fuck a ghost. That's not, it's wrong.
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Also, like, men of the 1920s cannot appreciate side ponytails. That was only fashionable from 1980 to 1984.
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By now he knows that she didn't because Kate finds a birth certificate for the baby that has his name on it.
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You've had a decade, but you know, it is available on Amazon Prime and Apple Plus to rent. So it's not too late to watch this and then come back. Anyway, we're going to discuss this. Rachel, how the fuck did you find this movie? Why are we here?
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Which is also insane for other reasons, because it's like if you're pretending to be married to someone's brother in order to hide the fact that you were having sex before marriage, you would put your husband's name on the birth certificate of that baby, even if it was his brother's like that's not.
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It's so weird. This whole scene is so strange. Describe it. Tell me what happens. Okay. Kate is, like, dancing with someone. Not our business. And he's, like, watching her dance when he, like, sees Lily dancing.
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Like, he can, like, see his former wife in the room. And, like, we're getting shots that show us that, like, other people can't see her, right? Like, only he can see her. She is actually kind of wearing an appropriate gown. Like, she looks different than everyone else. And he can, like, basically see the replay of, like... It's like watching a replay back in a sports game.
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It's like he can see the replay of what was happening inside the party the night that he was killed. And he, like, follows her outside. His brother is also there. They're, like, talking about how his brother's being like, I hate my brother because he, like, is a lawbreaker. Like, I love cops. I don't know what this guy's problem is. He sucks.
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And Lily keeps being like, no, I love him and I can change him. Like, literally, she's basically like, I can change him and he'll stop doing crimes eventually. Yeah. um and then he's like only at this point does he realize that then his brother couldn't have killed him because you could see him on the porch the whole time and then at the party appears his cousin yes holding a bloody rock ah
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both cousin and lily were ghosts in this house the whole time and daniel somehow didn't notice them for a hundred years which i had questions are there different planes for ghosts like how did they not interact with each other and then also they're like trying to do this thing where they're like it's a gift that lily gave him and i'm like but what's the gift here babes like What?
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He gets killed because he tries to get out of the game. You're right. Daniel's like, I'm not doing rum running anymore. I'm going to be a good, upstanding citizen. And the thing is, people in charge of massive illegal operations do not like that. And so his cousin has to kill him. So in a way, his wife and his brother's obsession with the law killed him. Correct. If you think about it.
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They, like... But, like... I don't even think it's implied. I know according to the movie...
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i know but also like ah what did they do all night well i think this is the thing that makes me crazy about this scene is it's like at midnight he's like gonna turn back into a ghost or whatever and so they kiss a little and then she goes to sleep on the couch and i'm like that's crazy i don't believe it if you're in love with someone
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Yeah. This is a crazy thing about ghosts that I often think about is how, like, obsessed we are with property. And as a connection to ghosts, where it's like, a ghost haunts this house. A ghost haunts this space. And it's like, what... Why?
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Yeah, you're not. He's huge. He's huge. He says the wrong thing all the time because he is from 1920. He's never seen a woman vote before.
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He doesn't know what football is. Like, he at one point calls a cell phone your special device. Yes.
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I want to show him the Real Housewives of New York.
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Yeah. There's so much that he doesn't know. And like, this is what I mean about this being like, the whole movie feels like a delusion of a girl who just like wants an excuse to date a hot guy. It's like, there's no world here. in which this relationship works. Like, just truly no world. They have bad communication skills. They are like, they have not spoken to each other at all.
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He knows nothing about her. She's too busy to have friends. And I'm supposed to believe that she's just going to be able to educate a man from the 1920s into, like, not getting arrested for doing, like, hate speech? Like, there's no way, right?
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Yeah, so you know how during your lifetime there were people who wanted Black people to vote? Now a Black person was president.
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Yeah. I'm also like, can you have a baby with someone? No, literally. Who's that old? Like, is he fertile?
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That's a good point. Maybe she doesn't want children.
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She barely kisses him. She kisses him two times.
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The subtext is real. I think that's the thing that is the most implausible to me about the ending of the movie is this, like, moment where it's, like, the clock is ticking down and they're just, like, having this nice, like, hug. I'm like, you're telling me. His senses are heightened.
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He's about to go back to what he described as a waking nightmare for the rest of the year and this man is not fucking? Yeah.
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Also, I do think this guy's kind of a good actor, to be honest. Yes, I agree. His facial expressions are very good. And there's a scene early on where she touches him
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to like prove that he's real like she touches his arm and you can see like the actor's body like sees a little and it's like yeah this man is like not gonna survive making out without having sex like he's dying he's dead maybe the issue is that they made out and he uh got a little too excited yeah
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Yeah. Tragic. Tragic. Thank you for supporting Normal Gossip. Thank you for joining us on this journey through the spirit of Christmas. Rachel, thank you for coming out and bringing us this horrific and beautiful film.
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I'm in the Rachel Hampton cultural experience class. Exactly. We're on Rachel time, as my friends call it. Wow. I love Rachel time. I'm so happy to be here. You told me to go into this movie, not Googling it, no information.
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So the only thing I knew about it before putting it on was that you had, in an effort to try and help me understand if I had seen it or not, you had mentioned it's about a ghost. The spirit is a ghost. And I was like, okay, no, I haven't seen that. And two, I very much want to.
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I don't think we're going to be able to be brief because I have a lot of notes. Let's do the longest recap ever.
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I don't know. We're in the woods. And we're also in the past. I would say he's the main character, even though he's not the protagonist. Our main character, giant man, walking through the snow. He's looking at a white inn where he can see a woman embracing a man on the little patio veranda situation. And he's clearly upset by this because there are no subtleties in this movie at all.
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And then he pulls out a pocket watch out of his pocket that looks to have been made of like, I don't know, plastic. And he looks at that and then he is hit in the back of the head. The screen goes dark and we flash to the present day. So tell me how you felt after that scene. The first thing I did was Google, what year did this movie come out? Everything about it is insane.
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This man has the most, like, 2010s face I've ever seen in my life. Right? He has iPhone face.
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It's also like if you had put this man in a suit that was not made out of polyester. it would be like immediately apparent that he is not from the present. But because everything that everyone in the past is wearing looks like it came from Kohl's, it makes it feel like you have no idea where you are or what time it is. And that's fun.
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okay so the plot that we're given right after she breaks up with his boyfriend is deranged the plot is like she's a lawyer unclear what kind of law i think property law property law okay and her boss is like a rich lady died she had no heirs she had this fancy inn and we don't want to pay taxes on it so it has to be sold by the end of the year which is in three weeks
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I felt so proud to be a colleague of his and to be part of this collective that literally puts its money where its mouth is when it comes to supporting independent creators. I understand there is so much going on in the world right now.
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Already insane. Also, is that how taxes work? Is that real? I don't think so. One. Two, he's like, it goes to the trust. And the whole point of having a trust is to evade taxes. Yeah. So it's like, I don't really believe that this is like a premise that exists at all. But whatever. It works. Works for me. So she drives her Jeep Cherokee out. Yes. Like she's not a girl who has a Jeep Cherokee.
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I think it's supposed to be like New Hampshire, Vermont. Because at some point he's like, you've got to come back to Boston. And it's clear that she like drove. Yeah. But whatever. One problem that I have is that, and you may also have this problem, is that I spent my whole childhood watching movies about Christmas in the Northeast. And I thought it was going to fucking snow here. Yeah.
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And it doesn't usually. Yeah. That's because of climate change. I know, and I want it.
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It's snowing like feet of snow on the ground. Like there's so much snow, which is maybe why she has to have a Jeep Cherokee.
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Which, first off, is insane to assume that you're just going to stay at an inn. Like, that's what you have to pay for things. Yeah.
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As a writer, one of my favorite things to recognize in dialogue is where someone has poked a hole in the plot. And then instead of resolving the hole in the plot, they just have one character say a line. So in this case, the question is, she's like, why aren't there people here? Wouldn't this be the inn's most busy season? Yeah. And then he's like, yes, but we are never open. And it's like, what?
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Okay, me too. And I'm like, if someone who lived in a house told me I couldn't stay there because there was a ghost there, I would be like, is the ghost nice? Correct. And then if they said no, I would be like, cool. I'm not staying here. That's not my business.
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But our girl has like true, like first girl dead in a horror movie brain where she is like, well, I'm actually different because I'm a girl boss and ghosts can't hurt girl bosses.
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There's a fucking ghost. Okay. Also more terrifying than a ghost, right? Because I know what you're thinking if you haven't seen this movie. You're thinking like maybe he's a little blurry. Exactly. Maybe he's like transparent. Maybe he has no legs. Maybe his body, you can't touch it, right? Like typical depictions of ghosts. No.
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What this actually is, is a full man who is fully embodied, who is giant, and from 1920, who is just in the same house as you. Like, in some ways, that's scarier than a ghost. I'm like, I don't know. Absolutely not.