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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello.
Yama-chan feeling a little bit under the weather today?
Yeah.
You good?
Yeah, I'm good.
Finally it's like a "ka-fun" show is coming.
Oh really?
To me.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Right.
It is getting warm really.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I remember I said in the last, you know, week.
No, I'm okay.
Still kind of.
Uh-huh.
But yeah.
Is it hitting you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
But anyways, you got any like latest news?
Latest news?
Uh, hmm.
I have...
I've...
Hmm.
I saw a movie called the, um...
Oh, wasn't like one or two years ago was one?
Yeah, it was.
Uh-huh.
But it was on Netflix.
Okay, okay.
So I saw it.
Uh-huh.
And I've heard of the title.
Yeah.
I was like, "Oh, I've...
I know this movie."
Like I saw it in a TV commercial.
Yeah.
And I was like, "Oh, this seems kind of interesting."
Uh-huh.
And it was on Netflix.
I was like, "Okay, let me play it."
Yeah.
Um, it turned out to be a Korean version.
It was a Korean version.
Oh, really?
I don't know which was first.
Yeah.
But it was the Korean version.
But I was like, "Oh, yeah, it doesn't matter.
Like I'll just...
I'll watch it."
Yeah.
And it was pretty good.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it was good.
Like it was very psychopathic and very like...
Very psychopathic, but like...
Wow.
It was good.
It was good.
What is kind of...
What's the like story?
Yeah.
So a girl drops her cell phone.
Yeah.
Right?
And then this guy, this bad guy, right?
Yeah, bad guy.
He picks up the phone and that guy installs like a...
Like a malware or something, like a virus in her phone.
What that virus does is that the guy can now track her phone.
Like track the location of the phone.
Like the guy can turn on the camera anytime and like can like...
The phone, like can look at the screen, the same screen that she's watching, it'll appear
on the screen.
Okay.
And he starts to like understand everything about her life.
Yeah.
And she starts to ruin her life.
Like she starts to do things to her surrounding people and she's going to like...
Okay.
It's going to like...
Yeah, that's the story.
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Wow.
It's interesting.
It's very psychopathic.
Very messed up.
Yeah.
But it was...
Wow.
So it's like a thriller movie.
Yeah, kind of like that.
Kind of like a thriller kind of thing.
Wow.
It was good.
Wow.
Yeah.
So on Wikipedia, it's like a...
Based on the manga.
No, no, no.
It's like a...
A short series from Japan.
Oh, okay.
The first one was... so they got like two movies.
Oh, okay.
Like one was...
And then the second one is...
And then, oh, they've got three...
Third one.
Oh, shit.
What does that even mean?
Wow.
What's Megaropolis?
What's that?
Megaropolis?
It's like a huge city like Tokyo, New York.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Wow.
So it was Japanese.
It started in Japan.
It's a novel.
It was a novel in Japan.
It's like three novels, but maybe one movie, maybe.
Oh, I see, I see, I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I know there's a Japanese version of the movie.
I saw it in the commercials.
Yeah, I've seen like a title.
Title?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like, you know, Parasite?
Have you seen Parasite?
No, but I know it.
It was that kind of psychopativeness.
Okay, okay.
It's got a...
It had a similar like...
Like...
Wow.
Like...
Yeah.
Did you enjoy that?
I enjoyed it, yeah.
Is it like turned out happily at the end?
Yes, in a way.
In a way?
In a way, yes, but...
Yeah.
But still like after you watch the movie, you feel...
Like...
Like...
It feels like...
Like I wanted to eat a pizza that day, but after watching that movie, I was like, "No, I won't eat anything."
Wow.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
But did you enjoy that movie?
I enjoyed the movie.
Like I was...
I was planning on sagyoing.
Yeah.
Like, you know, I really love like to play a movie or like play a YouTube video like right next to me while I'm sagyoing.
Like I work better in that environment like to have like the background noise and everything.
Like quiet...
Like complete silence isn't...
It's uncomfortable for me.
Yeah.
So I want noise.
Like I usually turn on the TV when I'm sagyoing and stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah.
So I was like, "Okay, I'll just play this in the background."
Like I'll just ignore it.
But like I couldn't.
It drew me in.
Like I stopped sagyoing.
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I was like full on.
I was locked on the screen.
I was like, "Oh my...
Oh shit, what's going to happen next?"
Yeah, it's quite thrilling.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
That and another movie that was quite enjoyable was...
It was...
I guess it was a similar concept, but it was...
I think it was Hollywood.
Okay.
The title was...
Like similar concept?
Yeah, it had a similar concept to it.
Wow.
Hold on, let me get the title.
I saw this yesterday.
Okay.
And that too I was going to sagyo with that background on.
But I was like, "Oh shit, this movie's good."
Like I couldn't sagyo.
It was called...
Was that a new one?
Like new?
I think it was new on Netflix, but I think it aired like two years ago, two or three years ago, I'm sure.
Um...
Let me check.
Yeah.
Search.
Search?
Yeah.
Kensa-ku?
Yeah.
Search is the title of the movie.
So what it is, it's about a father and a daughter, right?
Mother's passed away, father and daughter.
Daughter one day doesn't come back from school.
Okay.
And two or three days, the father is very worried.
Yeah, of course.
And he starts digging in her phone, her social media account, her online presence to unwind
what happened.
And that's how the mystery unfolds.
Like, oh, she was doing...
The father goes through all the friends on her Facebook account and discovers a photo of the girl sitting alone
at a lunch table behind the other girls, right?
Like, "Eh, moshikashita wa nanka atta no ka na?"
He also finds this live streaming site that she was on and finds out that she became friends with this stranger
on the internet.
And the daughter started sympathizing with her and the father starts thinking, "Maybe this guy, this person
knows what happens to him."
And tries to solve what happened to her through internet, like what she was doing on the internet, like
traces like the bank account, stuff like that.
Wow.
And what's also interesting was that most of the scene were portrayed through some sort of a camera lens.
For example, like it could be the camera lens of the PC.
It was never like this...
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You know how usual Hollywood movies, like there's a camera, there's this invisible camera that's not supposed
to exist, that's capturing the action.
But most of the scene came from...
It was either a screen on a computer.
Like you're watching the screen computer just like how the protagonist is searching on the internet, like
he's watching the TV screen, like you're watching the exact same screen or like the webcam.
Wow.
It's either those.
And that was interesting too.
Yeah, true.
Yeah, so search.
Is it also like thriller, like mystery one?
Yes, not as psychopathic as...
It was more Hollywood-y.
Okay, oh yeah.
It's got a better ending, like it's got more of a...
But very...
Oh, is this interesting?
It's interesting.
Yeah.
Okay.
Search.
Search.
Okay.
Osusume.
Osusume.
I got it.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
