Spree - Literally Me

it's august 20th 2020. the world especially the u.s had been debilitated by lockdowns and social unrest society wasn't just a powder key ready to explode it was more like a series of bombs going off like dominoes in a line the film's spree which was about a wannabe social media influencer who goes on a killing spree for likes and engagements had just been released and it inspired a copycat here on youtube that youtuber the kino corner who had been on a mental downward spiral for months let's just say that when he tried to review the movie he took things a bit too far since then the entire incident has been completely memory hold from the internet but i was able to save the vod in some videos and i cut it down and edit it to give you the most interesting parts so without further ado here it is what does it mean to be an e-celeb why are we so obsessed with growing our online numbers does the internet affect our personalities our ambitions is internet fame or rather internet infamy the peak of success in this day and age and how do we know that what we see and experience online is real spree poses all these questions and more and people would be talking more about this film if it wasn't so critically divided my friends and my subscribers seemed to really like the movie they thought it was a fun satire about internet culture but the critics well they weren't as warm to it they objected to it on moral grounds and the comedy did seem to fly over their heads or at least maybe the comedy wasn't meant for them but you know that's common for films of this nature if we look at american psycho or if we look at dr strangelove both of those films were well they got mixed receptions upon their release as well so what i'm saying is don't look at some aggregate score on metacritic or rotten tomatoes judge the film for yourself and as always also subscribe to quinoa's world 94 i follow everyone who follows me back and today i am following in kurt kunkle's footsteps because i am the biggest kirti and today is the second lesson wait a second do you like this gamer from mars sent it to me himself for free because you know what he's going to be watching the stream and he might be reposting us i got a lot of internet friends a lot of big guys there their eyes are on us so we're going to go viral today and i don't care that it's going to rain right rain never stopped me rain's not stopping us rain ain't stopping keno nation so buckle up while we're setting up let's talk about how spree was made unlike most films just about every camera and spree is diegetic what i'm saying is that it wasn't like it was shot on traditional cinema cameras and then made to look like consumer level cameras in post-production all the cameras are real from the gopros and dash cams to the iphones and androids the only time that a red camera or really any kind of cinematic camera was used was during the comedy scene but it makes sense in that context because it's supposed to be a professional level production what ties all these disparate elements together is a great sound design the film may not look traditionally cinematic but it sounds cinematic and i would argue that's more important joe kiri or joker for short actually drove the car you might be saying kino of course he drove the car but the reality is that a lot of times actors don't drive the cars and movies they get towed by a camera car and they just pretend that they're driving now of course joker wasn't driving the car for the stunts but that goes without saying but what needs to be said is how hard it is to act and drive not only do you have to remember your lines and be in the moment but you have to focus on the road and if you fail at that you crash which i won't because i'm not acting this is a hundred percent me shout out to all the canographers out there don't forget to smash that like subscribe and that bell button for all sorts of cool movie related videos now considering that the gopros pretty much had a 360 degree view of the car how could the director direct the scenes without being in the car simple they had an antenna on top of the car that streamed all the gopro footage to a follow car and he directed from there but the follow car couldn't be in any of the shots or else it would look like somebody was hunting down kurt for the whole movie so it really wasn't that simple as for the phone footage the actors held the phones and did the recordings themselves so joker can put camera operator on his resume now which is pretty cool but how does this affect filming and directing it was filmed weirdly enough like this movie was in the tradition of what's known as slow cinema that's like tar angalopoulos and tarkovsky those kinds of directors i know it's crazy to compare spree to movies made by these people but each take was like 15 minutes long the actors performed the entire scenes with each take treating it almost like theater or real life and the aesthetic and flow of it definitely remind me of films like jafar panay's taxi or kirastami's 10. it's edited to be fast paced but these kinds of films definitely inspired it quite a bit yo what is up turkey tom we got turkey tom on the phone right now tom you are on speaker hey chat hey why don't you guys put in chat gobble gobble turkey tom or maybe you know send me a super chat text to speech tom will definitely hear it hey tom what is up my man how is it going hey uh you know i got to be honest with you man your stream kind of [ __ ] sucks uh it it doesn't but i mean people people like this kind of stuff you know they like hearing about how movies were made like it's it's cool i mean that's why people watch me right like you know that's that's that's my thing you know dude it's boring i i'm i'm literally falling asleep right now it's 3 p.m so you shouldn't be falling asleep um but what uh what would you have me do you know what man if forget i said anything just do your stream make people feel smart about filming whatever give them their what the [ __ ] moments um but if it doesn't get more exciting in the next few minutes i'm gonna get the [ __ ] out of here hey you know you you promised you promised me that you would share it [ __ ] i'm sorry i shouldn't have you know what you guys want entertainment you guys want something cool well i got a few water bottles in the back and i'll give you some entertainment look airtight er water type kurt paces his day in a cinematic way he starts off small by just having people drink from poison water bottles and as the day and eventually night go along his stunts become crazier and more brazen this makes sense because it allows him to get the ball rolling on the killings and show his danger and potential while also flying under the radar for a lot of the movie it makes sense that the movie is paced cinematically because well it is a movie but what kind of movie is it spree is constructed as a screen movie or as director eugene kotlarenko sorry if i mispronounced his name put it found footage 2.0 why 2.0 well because it's not exactly found footage is it there are people in the film watching it as it's happening and interacting with kurt through the use of chat the reality is that the director wrote all of the chats but this extra element got me thinking the posters all said that this was american psycho for the digital age but i think the better comparison is man bites dog which i've made a video about man bites dog is a mockumentary that follows a serial killer and the documentary crew starts helping him commit his murders breaking the fourth wall and bringing the audience into the horror in spree the chat has a similar function the people who watch kurt egg him on to commit more and more acts of violence and since it feels to us like we're watching this stream we might feel at least partially responsible for what happens kurt may be doing the evil but is the blood also in our hands let's think about the people with whom kurt interacts the white nationalist the pickup artist the woke comedian and the karen i mean these people are real but they're also not they're like twitter personas in real life these personas come from real people but there are heightened versions of ourselves you know so spree operates in this world this heightened world where people act in real life like how they act on the internet oh here is our guy let's pick him up hey how's it going yeah it's raining outside hey um i got this camera right here it's for my own safety it's from my own protection uh i hope you don't mind do you okay you want you want to say you want to say hi to my streamers to my followers all right cool cool yeah yeah man uh if you take any grand pictures here just you know be sure to do hashtag the second lesson just just fyi hey man there's some waters in the back in case you get thirsty every character is always online bobby creates vacuous and soul-destroying videos and streams that i guess are targeted towards babies uno uses the internet to project a completely false image of herself mario and miles uses to clout chase off of jesse and jessie is constantly streaming or creating videos even when she's supposedly spending quiet time with her grandma and often she uses her followers as a weapon i couldn't have been the only one that thought that miles was cringe but that jessie by recording him for the purpose of having her followers laugh at him was mean and just like the rest of them she's full of [ __ ] her whole grandstanding about quitting social media was all for show it was a stunt mate to get her more social media followers and we know this because either she used a fake phone on stage or she had a backup phone plus she's like immediately posting to instagram after the events of the movie so when we look at this world kurt fits in perfectly his thirst for clout and his constant obsession with branding himself doesn't separate him from the world it makes him a paragon of the world a person who will literally do anything for internet fame jessie states herself that she was just like him and what is jessie's catchphrase all eyes on me that's what she wants and that's what kurt wants and spoiler alert he does achieve this goal he gets 50 000 simultaneous viewers the look of happiness when he sees that number tells us everything about him that he's a junkie just like his dad his dad is addicted to dopamine hits from hard drugs but kurt gets his dopamine rushes from followers and notifications we all get these small rushes when twitter or youtube or instagram notifies us these apps are designed to basically make us psychologically addicted to them but kurt is really addicted and it's not just that he's addicted to these rushes he's from a broken home his dad as we said is an addict and there is a weird relationship between kurt and his mother he's someone who isn't loved or perhaps just doesn't feel loved and he's desperately seeking affirmation from the nameless and faceless internet horde which is futile and ridiculous i shouldn't even have to explain why that's crazy but so many of us are like kurt aren't we we feel unloved left behind depressed dispossessed or any number of things but as we get more and more online we also feel lonelier and lonelier and as communities and families fall apart we look for love and affirmation elsewhere so we project these fake versions of ourselves online to get engagement or to fit into groups or to just make people think that we're not as sad as we really are that's kind of depressing and also really scary spree is a movie about the internet made by somebody who definitely understands the internet it's a movie very much of its time and i think that anybody who enjoys watching youtube videos or twitch streams is going to find this movie highly enjoyable thought provoking and hilarious it's basically man bites dog for the age of influencers or man bites dog meets jafar pannahi's taxi it's also cool that the filmmakers created an instagram account in character for the movie called kurt's world 96 it provides a lot of story around the film and i think it serves as an example of really cool storytelling now it's not a perfect film there are some continuity errors that i did notice but didn't really take me out of the movie and a big criticism that i have read and that i understand is that some people think that the suspension of disbelief is too much i get it he's killing people in a live stream but to counter that almost all the people watching in the film think it's fake until maybe near the end many people in the chat call it fake they don't even believe that bobby died even though they saw him stabbed the internet is so full of hoaxes that we often don't believe much of what we see especially when famous influencers are involved bobby base camp could have faked his own death so he could talk to j-station at 3am or maybe they didn't want it to be real because they participated in it kurt was the evil one all they were doing was watching and commenting weren't they but i do see how people could have this criticism i mean everything that i've done in this stream has been fake and that's why i'm not personally in trouble right [Music] ba

Channel: The Kino Corner

Views: 22,598

Keywords: Spree, Joe Keery, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Movie, horror, satire, comedy, social media, uber, lyft, video essay, spoof, parody, homage, film, movie, the kino corner, cinema, indie, independent, art, found footage, scary, spooky, crazy, thriller, Joshua Ovalle, David Arquette, film review, analysis, turkey tom, whang, cars, kurtsworld96, instagram, twitch, livestream, streaming, irl, internet, viral, influencer, bobby basecamp, kurt kunkle, man bites dog, chat, fourth wall, meta, literally me

Id: 0uq932nsDY8

Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020