The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos · 121 mins · 1,689 views
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when kim covered her fries in ketchup at the end you could just tell the dad wished it was her ass who died…
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A man who plays god meets a boy who plays devil. This is totally my jam.
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i really shoulda just up and left the second a character started singing an ellie goulding song
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here is a little bit of fucked up trivia: “when steven is at the school for the parent teacher conference, the principal tells him that kim wrote a paper on iphigenia for which she got an A, and that was read aloud to the class. iphigenia, in greek mythology, is the daughter of agamemnon — she who was to be sacrificed for the sins of her father.” yorgos lanthimos… you fucking GENIUS
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Jjack ✿ 8 月 24, 2026
this whole movie is 117 unsettling minutes but perhaps the most unsettling thing is modern youth using the term ‘mp3 player’ as if it’s 2004
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Jjack ✿ 8 月 24, 2026
hope the dad in front of me who brought his son and daughter to see this had a fun discussion on the way home
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SSarah Bảo Phương 8 月 24, 2026
the most disturbing scene was when the girl started singing burn by ellie goulding
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did u hear about martin’s dad who taught him to eat spaghetti? well he pasta way 🙁
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” Martin open this fucking door now, or i will fuck you and your mother just like you want me to”
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Una sólida película sobre el sentido retorcido y universal de la justicia y la venganza.
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I was intrigued for the first 1/3, but i never regained that interest for the remainder of the film. I know the dialogue and characters are written in that specific manner, but I just couldn’t stand it. Felt entirely lifeless, leaving it hard to make a connection to any of the characters (which majority of them I hated). It’s a very creative and unique concept that ended up being a bit of struggle to get through. On a positive note, Barry Keoghan is unreal in this. Yorgos Lanthimos Films Ranked List
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main emotion i am feeling right now is sadness and such profound hatred towards steven. only comfort for me was colin’s delectable little irish accent
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I’ve been threatening to watch another Yorgos Lanthimos film for over ten years ever since I watched The Lobster back in 2015, and I’ve thought about it ever since. Whilst this one doesn’t quite reach the same highs as The Lobster did, it’s still a truly excellent film. Lanthimos’ directing style is a pleasure to watch, the cast is brilliant and the sound is excellent. There really should be more absurdism in films 🤷🏻♂️
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Ik dacht dat het ging over een jacht op een hert, niet over een man die een anesthesie fetisj heeft.
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Emmmmm cooooooo Pamiętam jak pierwszy raz obejrzałam kiedyś biedne istoty i myślałam że to najbardziej pijebany film jaki widziałam. Perspektywy czasu był to najnormalniejszy film tego reżysera. + utwierdzam się w przekonaniu że jedyny film który faktycznie faktycznie lubię od niego to bugonia. Reszta to trochę przerost formy nad trescia. Nie mniej lubię se czasem odpalić i nie wiedzieć co obejrzałam bo mimo wszystko coś mają w sobie te filmy. Muzyka piękna gra aktorska mega cool. Wizualnie banger
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Mmunichca 8 月 23, 2026
Yes, it’s exactly what you think.
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vete ala verga pues pues que pedo wey esa manera de escoger qn moriría al final creo que pues fue peor que cualquier otra manera no mames HAJAJAAJAJ como que de tin marin de do pingüe chingas a tu madre
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“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” sees Yorgos Lanthimos strip away all of his dark absurdist humor and deliver just darkness, and it makes for one of his best films as well as one of A24’s finest efforts. A bleak and unsettling story about one man’s karma coming back to haunt him, it sees cardiovascular surgeon Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) confronted by a mysterious teenager named Martin Lang (Barry Keoghan) who slowly rips the man’s life and family apart as…
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man this was wild 😭
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Wtf dude ( P.S: should have been the daughter , that kid had wonderful hair ) Also everyone is so fucked up
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everything and nothing all at once. everyone does everything. no one says nothing thrilling, but hard to digest, i guess. not just the elephant in the room but holy crap there are so many animals in here steven please get the gun actually no. but i get it. but not really. but i quite like it. but not really
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de alguma forma prende ate o final e o final faz valer a pena
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The conversation being had with Haneke’s legacy was completely lost on me 10yrs ago. But wow… In the age of (un)accountability, this hits harder than ever.
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Eh? can see why some gave this 1/2 a star. But like The Lobster I enjoyed the weirdness of this. Barry Keoghan is enough to creep me out and this was fitting. Bob was the best of the bunch and didn’t deserve his demise.
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Det ligger ingen konst i att göra en film så miserabel som möjligt. Den försöker också antyda att det skulle finnas något att hämta. Lite som funny games. Ett patetiskt försök till en film
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En mærkelig og ubehagelig film med en interessant præmis, men den bliver også så klinisk og distanceret, at det er svært for alvor at engagere sig i karaktererne. Den monotone dialog og de meget kunstige reaktioner skaber en interessant stemning, men føles til tider mere som et stilgreb end noget, der faktisk gør historien bedre. Tematikkerne om skyld, straf og moralske valg er spændende, men filmen bliver efterhånden så absurd og selvhøjtidelig, at noget af intensiteten forsvinder. Den har bestemt…
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So many psychopaths in one movie. Crazy soundtrack. Should have fucking killed himself thou😭
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wife should’ve died
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Pensar que al inicio podria ser un romance gay y luego terminar en lo que terminó estuvo muy random La pena con pena cuando la chica cantó en el árbol, basta
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barry keoghan siendo otra vez raro de cojones, yo sinceramente hubiera matau a todos porque todos son raros de cojones, quemen bermeo
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i felt like a perv watching this honestly was not feeling whatever was going on dialogue and shot wise in the beginning but learned to love it so yay 😸👌 tried to take a 30min nap during but woke up 12hours later so a 7am log it is
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Actual Review This movie feels like a fever dream. It takes genuine skill and finesse to act in such a stilted way and read off such unnatural dialogue in a way that works. Not only that, when the acting does go up an octave (for lack of a better term), it just highlights the cruelty of the situation the main characters find themselves in. I’m of two minds about the length. About 2/3rds in, I was like “alright, wrap it…
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CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀
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The only person that should’ve died was the daughter, for singing Ellie Goulding.
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Olha que moleque doente aquele….
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Funny-bone-chilling movie about the worst choice anyone could ever have to make, but also about accountability and revenge more generally. The dialog is weird and stilted in a way that actually draws you into the world and makes it easier to accept some of the internal logic. I loved the use of wide-angle lenses at particularly high or low angles following people, very unsettling. It intrigues me that nobody even brings up the idea of suicide to Steven – I…
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I really liked this !
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second misguided film choice of the day, really made myself suffer today.
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And we gonna let it burn burn burn 🎶 We gonna let it burn Burn BURN BURN 🎵🔥
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Como me gusta a mí un primerísimo primer plano
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tellement tellement tellement dur à regarder à la limite de l’insoutenable les performances sont toutes folles et le scénario twisted au possible avec un déroulement difficilement prévisible
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It’s good bc it makes you uncomfortable and sad, that’s how you know it’s good …
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Officially adding Barry Keoghan to the Paul-Dano-in-Prisoners weird little freaks hall of fame
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I’d rather ask the principal which kid to save. SUCH A DUMBO.
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Yorgos you’re a sick man, what kind of childhood you had sick f
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O pai do Martin é o Gummo? Pq ninguém come espaguete de um jeito tão nojento
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Disturbing and lacks deer
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i just feel that if i wanted to talk my son into ratting on himself for malingering, i would use another method. any other method. like, quite literally any other method possible. anyways. i hated this. everything about this concept and execution was wildly uncomfortable and i am repulsed by this film. i will never watch it again and i would not recommend it to anyone i know. thats what i get for using spotify’s about the song feature for ellie goulding’s burn. 3.5/5, very good film in my (albeit uneducated) opinion.
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Tragic, pitch-black, and utterly hopeless. In one word: Lanthimos. – Tragico, cupissimo e senza speranza. In una parola: Lanthimos.
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no bro let’s put another zoom shot follower by a wide shot through a pane of glass. the 74 before it wasn’t enough
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360 NO SCOPE
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Meeeeega creepy La banda sonora un 10
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I have absolutely no idea what the fuck I just watched, but I had a great time. The bizarre dialogue, the stiff performances and the almost mechanical behaviors aren’t distractions from the horror. *They are the horror*. Everyone seems to have lost access to the emotional vocabulary we normally use when confronted with death. Horrifying, ridiculous and somehow madly hilarious. Lanthimos, you weird bastard. I’m in.
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I enjoyed the weird stilted monotone dialogue and this was one of those movies I love the experimental parts of- like a little wacky rlly sells me it
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naxevarze mets ver vusmine ezoshi saqmis garcheva iyo
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Con un buen comienzo y una banda sonora que nos pone en órbita sobre que algo malo va a suceder desde el primer minuto del film, termina perdida y siendo plomiza. Eso sí, te mantiene atento hasta el desenlace final. Las actuaciones están a un buen nivel y la atmósfera de terror e intriga muy bien lograda, pero esto no logra contrarrestar la ausencia de un mínimo de lógica y coherencia que nos intentan esconder tras una tragedia griega y…
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FFelipe Pérez 8 月 22, 2026
el momento más incómodo de la película fue la chama cantando Burn de Chanson d’Ellie Goulding
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they just ket him get away with jt
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Bro really spilt the beans for a parking lot handjob…lock in twin
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Se o intuito era me perturbar, acertou em cheio. Passei duas horas com o coração na mão. Se existe uma mensagem por trás disso tudo eu preciso entender. Agora como diabos o rapaz fez aquilo? Bruxaria? Acho que não, seria muito óbvio.
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“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? dying with hatred. dying unjust. dying
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The acting in this film is so uncanny and in a way, it makes the film so much more interesting. There’s like, this feeling that you’re watching the actors from behind a window like in a zoo. There’s some really fascinating plot developments and I think the discomfort this film makes you feel is just chefs kiss.
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kind of an insane secret to tell your son but maybe thats just me
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Realized midway through the movie that Martin’s house in the movie is literally a block down from my house—creepy as hell
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esos acercamientos y alejamientos al plano combinan perfecto con la sensación de incomodidad que genera este largometraje
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And we gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
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One of the most unique films I have ever watched. I am no stranger to Yorgos Lanthimos’s work, yet I was still completely taken by surprise by how perfect this film is. The dialogue, score, acting, and direction all work together to create an incredibly eerie atmosphere that persists throughout the entire film. There was not a single moment when I felt comfortable while watching this, not that this is a bad thing. In fact, I think that is precisely…
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Me when I 360 no scope my son in only 3 tries 😎🤟🏻🔥 That shot woulda gone crazy in a COD MW2 compilation
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BBkbkbsbs 8 月 22, 2026
Bahtı sikik piyade
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This film made me want to throw up…in a good way
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razao n°10k porque eu sou misantropista
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Omg the movie really kept me stressed out for like one hour and a half, and btw the killing scene was so shocking
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Just an odd movie lol been on a Greek mythology binge lately. This wasn’t my favourite but still good
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First Yorgos Lanthimos movie I’m traumatized WHAT THE FUCK. Soooooo good. The music itself freaked me the hell out and nothing bad had even happened yet.
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chilling dreadful tension filled the score was actually terrifying amazing performance by barry keoghan
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Hoe lee shit
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over pretentious over drammatic.. why do the kids talk like that…
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I loved it
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I’m starting to think I just don’t like Yorgos. All his movies have so many aspects I love- contemplative, weird, original, incredible scoring, GREAT performances. They all just really fall flat for me. There was just something about this that left me wanting. Idk
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The Shining vibes. Honestly pretty good, ending didn’t suck that bad either
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Ellie Goulding… what are you doing here?
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There’s a subtle coalesence between the hospital operating theatre in the opening scene that underpins this reprise of an ancient Greek tragedy, and the stifled clinicality that’s endemic to pretty much every character interaction after that. Every conversation is completely stiff and emotionally detached. While it feels open-ended due to the artificiality of it all, I think this is more a way to embellish the absurdity rather than to conceal hidden meanings. It’s a moral impasse to be taken literally…
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Weird ass movie why was the whole family eerie and weird
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imagine trying to eat spaghetti normally in front of nicole kidman
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ничего непонятно но очень тревожно
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las 2 horas mas increíbles de mi existencia i guess
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these ass loud sounds got me off guard
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There are so many bells and whistles hidden underneath the dialogue, it makes watching this movie almost feel like torture in the best way possible. Very few films are successful at making me feel a certain type of way while I watch them; this one’s definitely one of them. It’s somber and hopeless but very insightful, I almost wish it had gone a little deeper into the mad end. Poor boy.
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📝 Previous Review I forgot how unhinged this was. The start and the end feel like different movies, in a good way. Raffey Cassidy is such an intriguing actor. Her performances usually impact me whenever I see her in anything. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Bugonia are more related than we think. 82%
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extremely difficult watch jesus christ i actually can’t believe I finished it. if i never watch a yorgos lanthimos film ever again it’d be too soon
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Yorgos Lanthimos… o lo ami o lo odi. Ma non puoi essergli indifferente. Personalmente, era tempo che non soffrivo così guardando un film. BRAVO!
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Everyone in this movie was freaked out except my boy, he just wanted to listen to his MP3s. Insane performance by everyone involved and I have never been so unsettled during an eating scene. Lot of symbolism and nuance in the conversations that get repeated. Glad to watch with my GF who pointed out a few discrepancies. I kinda want that watch tbf
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“My daughter started menstruating last week.” “Great.” “Yes.” ☠️ The monotone and surreal dialogue really took me out of it. And I am rolling my eyes all the way into my skull at all the cinebros defending the writing as intentionally detached.
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Love me a nice set of hands
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adoro a este puto director me encantaría hablar con él en persona y saber qué piensa tiene que ser tan interesante
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Lanthimos y sus fetiches raros y ahora fantasea con garcharse cadaveres
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One of the most uncomfortable movies I’ve ever watched
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So fucking uncomfortable to watch. But that’s exactly why it’s totally worth it.
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nao lembro quando vi mas mt bizarro
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What is this bro
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Strange
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For a Greek dude, I find this the most insipid anglo take on *Iphigenia in Aulis*; however, the film itself isn’t unpleasant—especially given such a polished and dedicated cast, it just fails to do justice to the proposal.
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Не могу рећи да сам сигуран шта сам погледао, али добро је. Одлично изведена константна непријатност.
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That dad was very weird
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Muy extraña y grotesca. Creo que el estilo de Yorgos no es para mí, aunque también sé reconocer su talento y calidad.
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O mlk era bruxo ?
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Non, perso je mange pas mes spaghettis comme ça, but you do you p’tit chat
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the audio mixing and the soundtrack for this is by far the best part
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Perfectly cast 4.25
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Je m’attendais à mieux… 😔
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justice for bob the classic yorgos type speech felt especially effective in this. looking for kim scene gave flashes of bugonia and that scene of them on the motorbike…i would love to see him execute a neo noir? maybe?
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Memorable Quotes: “They will all get sick and die. Bob will die, Kim will die, your wife will die, understand?” – “no i don’t” “My mom’s attracted to you – she’s got a great body” “Can I have your MP3 player when you’re dead?”
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This made me feel so awkward the whole movie. I liked this film
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barry keoghan already looks like billy the doll. didn’t know he stole jigsaws looks and his games
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Yorgos? More like YOURE-GOAT!!! #shoutoutSunnySuljic
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watching this feels like interacting with med students irl
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“can i have your mp3 player when you’re dead?”
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yorgos lanthimos loves to date his movies by making a character sing a really bad cover of a billboard top 100 of that year
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I don’t know why, but any shot of the children crawling around made me laugh. Maybe Yorgos is right about humanity…
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Not a single deer in sight but hubris surely was (can we also address the fact that he jerked off his dad?)
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the only reason i kept watching after kim sang an ellie goulding song is cuz i was waiting for the deer
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Nah this was elite I can’t lie. There are mixed reviews when it comes to this film and I can see why. But if you see the vision this is really really good. I was on the edge of my seat for over half the movie. The camera work and score was great. Colin Farrell is super talented and Barry Keoghan is great at playing a weirdo. But I gotta be honest the wife was OD annoying. Also why did she fondle bros shit to get that info? Now that I’ve seen this I want to watch some of Yorgos other films.
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weird ass movie but very well presented !
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i wish she fucking died. that rendition of ‘burn’ by ellie goulding made me want my eyes to bleed.
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Wait I thought I was the only one who ate spaghetti like that.
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Barry Keoghan being weird
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meu irmão que filme estranho, mas que filme bom
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แม่งคือหนังที่ทุกอย่างน่าสนใจ ทวีความบ้าคลั่งของมันไปเรื่อยๆจนเดาไม่ออกเลยว่ามันจะไปสุดที่ตรงไหน และเต็มไปด้วยซีนจํา ชอบตัวละครที่ Barry Keoghan เล่นมาก กับ ซีนสปาเก็ตตี้ของแก ตัดคะแนนแค่นิดเดียวคือไม่ชอบการใช้ Slow motion ของ Yorgos ในหนังเรื่องนี้ แค่นั้นเลย ชอบเรื่องนี้ที่สุดในบรรดาหนัง Yorgos ทุกเรื่องที่เคยดูละ
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Por algum motivo eu esqueci de logar esse quando assisti dois anos atrás. Filmaço. Mais um grande papel de psicopata do menino Barry. Realmente o Jorginho é um dos meus diretores favoritos. Assistido em não lembro, acho que baixei em algum lugar.
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barry keoghan can have my soul, first of all (anything with this goblin will get 5 stars from me). second, 😀 why tho? this entire film feels like being informed that something unspeakably horrible is going to happen to you by the world’s calmest customer service representative. nobody speaks like a human being. nobody reacts like a human being. barry eats spaghetti threateningly. immaculate. greek tragedy said your actions have consequences and yorgos lanthimos said okay but what if everyone involved was also deeply fucking weird)))
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- Synopsis
- Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
- Director
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Writer
- Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
- Studio
- Element Pictures, TPC, Film4 Productions, New Sparta Films
- Country
- UK, USA, Ireland
- Language
- English, French
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 121 mins
- France22 May 2017
- New Zealand01 Aug 2017
- Australia12 Aug 2017
- USA22 Sep 2017
- Netherlands01 Oct 2017
- Norway04 Oct 2017
- Switzerland05 Oct 2017
- Philippines19 Oct 2017
- USA20 Oct 2017
- Australia16 Nov 2017
- Belgium01 Nov 2017
- Czechia02 Nov 2017
- UK03 Nov 2017
- USA03 Nov 2017
- Denmark09 Nov 2017
- Sweden10 Nov 2017
- Turkey17 Nov 2017
- Slovenia23 Nov 2017
- Norway24 Nov 2017
- Netherlands29 Nov 2017
- Hong Kong30 Nov 2017
- Poland01 Dec 2017
- Taiwan22 Dec 2017
- Germany28 Dec 2017
- Indonesia03 Jan 2018
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