The Sympathizer Episode 3 Breakdown | Recap & Review
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- The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 3 Breakdown. In-depth recap and review for The Sympathizer - S01E03 “Love It or Leave It” with the ending explained. Please Subscribe 👉 czcams.com/users/petepeppers...
In Episode 3, The Captain and Bon stalk and eventually put their plan to eliminate The Dumpling into action. This proves difficult and leaves The Captain with a lot of guilt and triggers a flashback to his time working with Claude while they were still in Vietnam. At the end of the episode all of Robert Downey Jr.'s characters gather in the same place and The Captain gets an offer to work on a movie with a famous filmmaker as his cultural consultant.
The Sympathizer is HBO's new series from co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar based on the novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Captain (Hoa Xuande) is a Northern Spy working for a South Vietnamese General (Toan Le) at the end of the Vietnam War. Or the American War, depending on who you ask, and this identity crisis and the Captain's double life set the stage for a show that is a spy thriller, a war story, an immigrant story, and a dark comedy.
S1.E3
Love It or Leave It
Written By: Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar and Mark Richard
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
The Captain and Bon craft a plan to quell the General's anxieties. Later, the Captain meets the Auteur, who wants to make a film about war.
Episode aired Apr 28, 2024
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I have not read the book, but I took the multiple RDJ roles as “Americans all look the same” to The Captain.
And they're not only just look the same but also act the same in some way
All I can say is, when there were scenes in "Orphan Black" where multiple clones were together, I NEVER thought, "Holy crow, look at Tatiana Maslany ACTING." Those were different CHARACTERS, and I totally accepted it.
I was thinking the same! I think that part of why it wasn't distracting was because there was an in-world reason for them to be played by the same actor. AND the story was about them, so they were fully fleshed out characters. Here, we have absolutely no reason why they'd be played by the same actor. They're also all side characters, giving them little to no time for characterization. It gives it a corny and gimmicky feel, despite RDJ being a good actor.
waiting for the rest of the breakdowns! love our commentary and very insightful
Hey Pete, hope we get an end of season video for this one. I get that the show and therefore the vids aren't doing amazing numbers, but would love your take at the end.
9:20 I think the spoof has more to do with how people from homogenized communities see other races of people.
I think to the Captain all white men look alike. Just like how white people used to say that all Asians look alike.
Plus, I went to an HBCU for 4 years. And when I moved to Atlanta it took me a long time to tell older white women apart. Because I went 4 years without interacting with any.
I think the book definitely had a better handling of the major's death: quick and brutal. The one in the show felt drawn out and kinda dumb.
I felt that this was done to show how the captain is such an amateur when it comes to killing
The show is good but when the side characters start speaking vietnamese, it sounded like it came straight out of ggtranslate
My guess not a lot of fluently speaking Vietnamese was willing to act in this show
@@nghianguyenhuu374 They were looking for actors who could speak english fluently as well, and prioritized the diaspora. Numerous cameo roles went to top models in Vietnam. La thanh thanh and truc diem are two examples
@@nghianguyenhuu374 The movie is ban in Vietnam, so even if they are willing, they would risk their career.
The fact that this is a movie about Vietnam, but filmed in Thailand speaks volumes.
I thought RDJ was only one character who as a spy is undercover all the time. I was really confused to see them together.
That is the vibe I was getting as well. The end of the 3rd episode really confused me and thought he was drugged and started having hallucinations. The look the captain was giving the senator during the celebration made me think he knew RDJ was putting on an elaborate show, but knew who he actually was. Finding out RDJ plays multiple characters really throws me off and I am having to rethink a lot of what I've seen so far.
It's the director's joke. In the same way that Westerners sometimes portray Easterners as the same actor playing infinite roles (see the main actor in Shogun. He always plays the same Japanese role in all the films) the director decided to play and reverse the roles by making the white actor be always the same actor for different roles.
The irony of Bon watching American fireworks go off in DC on TV over Russian music is beautiful, like a Cold War collage.
Thanks for sharing your review. One thing I dont understand that why Robert Downey Jr plays 3 roles in the same movie, Would it confuse the audiences?
11:19 minutes song name ?please 🙏🙏🙏
Is Pete not breaking these down anymore? 4 was the best ep yet.
hopefully he cames back
He gave up
As a vietnamese communist enjoyer, I enjoy this movie.
Why isnt this show making more buzz?
Have you heard about the news? They are making a spinoff.
To all for mankind.
Can you do Dark Matter please
Is RDJ playing so many characters (and putting them all together in the same room) a gimmick? Most certainly. Do I absolutely love it? Oh hell yes, but I take your point about it taking away from the story.
I feel like it’s an “all white people look alike” take.
Are you sure that all those Robert Downey Junie Junior characters are not like his broken psych like in fight club different personalities
I think this is the episode where The Sympathizer lost me as a viewer, the RDJ stuff is wacky but extremely distracting, turning the entire affair into a cartoon of an ugly murderous circus. The world is too dark, dangerous, and ugly to want to bathe in it every sunday night, for laughs? yuck, i'm out.
It’s literally from the book it’s based on. The characters are portrayed exactly as how they are written.
@@brendans.9515 ok, sure, the book sucks, the story sucks, the entire presentation is ghastly disturbing ugly and i don't want to watch it
@@universalcollective427a show based off a Pulitzer Prize winning book about the aftermath of the Vietnam war isnt light hearted enough for you? Dumb take
@@gvairsoft5994 And yet it is still mine, lol
@@universalcollective427 you're here leaving multiple comments on one of the very few review videos of a new show, only a few hours after release. Think on that.
This show is very mid. Pete, cover Outer Ranger please! 🙏🏼