INTRO
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This week on FilmSack, we “honor” Robert Redford’s “acting career” after THE DISCOVERY that he made a 2017 Netflix thingy where he portrays a doctor dude? that proves the existence of an afterlife and humanity collectively responds with a mass wave of “unsubscribe” from this plane of existence. Trigger warning… it deals with HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER AND THEN PUSHED HER TO SUICIDE subject matters. You and Jason Segel have been warned. Secondary Trigger warning, Jesse Plemons fills in the quiet moments by playing a guitar in a jumpsuit on stage in what I can only assume is a place called the sadness room. Netflix And Chill.. More like Netflix and Don’t Die.
Anywho, ok…I got my conscience recorder laid over my head like so much spaghetti sliding out of a colander… check. I pumped my body full of “go to sleep forever juice” that is easily counteracted by a small electrical shock… check.. oh shit… I forgot to hook up the shaky cam VHS recorder thingy that records it all. I should have juiced last! mommy!
Randy, how long have I been stuck in this loop?
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BRIEF
Scientist Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) confirms the existence of the afterlife, triggering mass suicides around the globe. His estranged son (Jason Segel) investigates his father’s research, falling in with Isla (Rooney Mara), a troubled woman haunted by her past. Together, they unravel the mystery of what “the discovery” really means—and whether the afterlife is a utopia, a rerun, or something much darker.
2017 | Rated TV-MA | Drama/Sci-Fi/Romance | 1h 42m
LINKS
IMDB: The Discovery (2017)
Wikipedia: The Discovery Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TVTropes: TV Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: Netflix (check JustWatch for availability)
TRAILER/CLIPS
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The Discovery (2017) – Need to forget about Robert Redford death? Then don’t watch this. #NetflixAndCry
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SHOW NOTES
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- Netflix Presents… really old Redford
- This movie is already starting in with “The Truth…” People value it…what is this 2017?
- 40 years…. my while life.
- I prefer to call it a new plane of existence.
- He created a machine to measure wave lengths leaving the body.
- When you see a train leave the train station…
- A spike in suicides after the discovery of scientific proof of an afterlife.
- Do you feel resposible… nah… how about now?
- “Thank you Dr. Harbor for my fresh start… ” boom goes the suicide.
- Meanwhile… 1.5 years later… 2 years since The Discovery.
- 4 million people have committed suicide since The Discovery.
- Do I look like a girl who is just going to take a pill from a strange guy?
- I don’t look like… the first 3 year you look like your name… at 4… something changes.
- Just trying to see if you look like your name.
- It is the anniversary… let’s get there!
- Reality and Fantasy do not exist in the same space.
- When I was 5 I had an accident and I died for about a minute. I told my parents I saw something…
- You are so annoying… so anyone told you that.
- Take a boat. Hitchhike.
- I didn’t figure in the attractive girl component.
- Eddie died… just to get there.
- I would rather stick my dick in a wood chipper than go to another funeral.
- We don’t trust phones now. So we live in this fantastic hole. Summer Camp for Troubled Yout….
- His other son… just returned.
- No big deal… just playing with death is all.
- You are wearing shit colored glasses.
- I’m here because I want you to stop this.
- therefore it is my belief…
- Death all around me… is it hard to live with 1 suicidal person… what if a shit ton of people were all around you.
- They are in a cult. you get a questionnaire.
- There is no right or wrong answers.
- If you had a soul… where in the body would it reside… the stomach? Most people say that? I think it resides in the loins.
- I hate my tea kettle. I hate my cereal bowl. am I depressed … let’s hit the reset button.
- We finally unveil it.
- This movie keeps it quiet… so you can hear every creepy creak.
- Not wearing the jumpsuit I left him.
- One long drown out middle.
- Welcome to my cult… uh… just kidding… close your eyes… let your sub conscience out.
- Now let us come back into this moment and look at shit cap i made out of an old stereo.
- I can now record where we go.
- Welcome to the compound.
- I carry around a pencil recorder and talk about memories.
- Very somber…
- You are detaching the bulb… turn off the bulb… turn on the bulb.
- We need to get a corpse…
- Hey… I have a corpse idea!
- What grossed Scott out the most… sharing ear pods.
- Stay in this Life.
- All these dark muted tones.
- All these John Does.
- Like the music though… some flute music for your corpse heist.
- Randy, I don’t like the creepy room Cooper put me in. I’m sleeping in your room tonight. TOP BUNK!
- I have spatial awareness.
- Randy is good at drawing circles.
- What happens to animals after they die… how about children. Hold Hands until we fall asleep.
- I got a head full of electrode wire hair.
- Yeah… pulling someone back from the dead… great plan.
- Toby… hit it… hit it again… one more… keep going. HIT IT!
- Did he sabotage?
- You are going to fry the body… what do you want… to cremate him early.
- Toby… I want you to locate me a new corpse immediately. We have a coup going on.
- … To get there… but why… To get there…
- I think you are beautiful and alive and if you killed yourself it would be a tragedy.
- This recorded where he went? Or his last moments?
- The afterlife is full of shaky cams. But high fidelity for zoom ins
- Now for a game of Afterlife Find the Hidden Memory Object.
- and now for my opener… Toby.
- Very much a Scientology thing… with this technology. and the paranoia and public shaming.
- It’s ok… this is a safe place…. but it ain’t… cause I’m about to kick you out.
- Jumpsuit… chain of command…
- How I Met Your Mother and Drove her to Suicide. the new Jason Segal comedy.
- Get out of your head… when you die you collapse into your memories?
- Dad made a memory recorder.
- A little anger on top of your guilt.
- This is not a memory… it is something else.
- She had a son… she fell asleep… then he was gone
- Pat was a piece of shit and we pulled his memories.
- I got a matching tattoo with my brother.
- Ocean, Wave, Lighthouse… madness… horn… weee ooooo… Drawn to something.
- What I am doing is reality…. I’m going upstairs… don’t be dramatic…
- Fixing your wrongs… your biggest regrets… a redo.
- Like a dream you can’t remember.
- The after life is a different plane of existence.
- The multiverse…. we have to destroy the machine…
- It turns out the afterlife is a redo button on our biggest regrets.
- Lacy … is all like… I didn’t kill her… I just relocated her… cool cool.
- I don’t wanna die man… So long Ila. Eye Luh.
- Like father like sun. Lets fix our biggest regret.
- You were never able to stop me from killing myself in any other reality. You just been incepted.
- How long have I been stuck in this loop.
- Nose bridge pinch.
- This beach has taken so many lives.
- The only way to save her is to insure you never meet her again.
- Robert Redford invents the afterlife like it’s a new app nobody asked for.
- Jason Segel tries serious acting: less HIMYM, more HIMYDeath.
- Rooney Mara = sad girl energy cranked to 11.
- Jesse Plemons: still creepy, still perfect.
- Science machine looks like a car battery wired to a VHS deck.
- Proof of afterlife = mass suicides. Big yikes.
- Family drama: Redford is basically Ghost Dad without jokes.
- “Upload your consciousness” but make it indie and depressing.
- Lots of staring at screens and mumbling about “what’s next.”
- Romance subplot = trauma bonding in a haunted mansion.
- The ending = surprise! It’s all about second chances… kind of?
- The tone: half Black Mirror, half Philosophy 101 dorm chat.
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