![]() A platoon of Marines then accompanies a USAF technical sergeant throughout the city in search of the aliens' command center, which they end up destroying and forcing the invading aliens back, at least for a brief time. Save Yourselves! is streaming now on Hulu.At the start of the movie, 20 extraterrestrial spaceships land in the water outside major cities around the world, with one of those cities being Los Angeles. A TV series is apparently in the works, so who knows where Jack and Su will go next. The best they might manage, the film suggests, is if they decide to stay focused on their own little bubble. The survivors are crueler than them, the guns are as useless as they predicted. Save Yourselves! pokes fun at the helplessness of its main characters, but it also points that other people aren’t much better. ![]() Co-writer/directors Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer have said that the script started with “specific idiosyncrasies from our real life” and that it was “much more fun to watch” parodies of themselves on screen than in real life. It should come as no surprise that Save was made by a couple. From her early film credit in Lil John’s “ Turn Down For What” music video to her excellent if underused character in GLOW, Mani is terrific at physical comedy. Especially Su, whose glee at chopping a Pouffe is one of the best scenes in the movie. They recoil at the idea of becoming action heroes, far preferring to stay in their cycle of ruts and breakthroughs, but heroes are exactly what they have to be. They’re passionately anti-gun and hate killing. With little information to go on, the two fail again and again, finding themselves in increasingly dire straits. They have no clear motives or desires save for their seeming hunger for ethanol. Throwing away their no-phone rule once things get weird, they start to find out the tiniest clues about the alien invasion: New York City is gone, and society seems to be crumbling at the feet of the Pouffes. They’re little balls of fur, they can fly, they can cause hallucinations, and they have absolutely murderous tongues. He couldn’t find and didn’t want the old masculinity of his father, saying, “but I’m not good at the new stuff either!” Baking, cleaning, and listening-he’s not a macho guy, he’s not a sensitive Millennial, so what is he? Utterly lost, both Su and Jack start to accept that they cannot be defined by what they’ve wanted for so long, be it a successful career or a successful performance of gender.īut with that acceptance comes the Pouffes. In the middle of watching this couple flail at trying to find themselves, Jack declares that he has no idea how to be a man. He’s upset because Su has been demanding honesty from him.Īnd then he storms in and gives her the honesty she wants. He’s similar but kinder in Save, which also takes regular note of how he fails at forming a masculine identity after a fight with Su, the camera focuses on his pathetic attempt to chop wood outside the cabin like an anti-Steve Rogers. One who whines, points out endless flaws, continually flails in a soft way that his girlfriends find impossible to leave. Su wants to follow a list from the internet to figure out the problems, Jack demands to continually live in the moment.Īnyone who has seen Search Party (and cast member John Early makes a cameo here) knows that Reynolds excels as a passive-aggressive boyfriend. Together, they play a couple that has hit a rut and wants to make it work but isn’t quite sure how to talk to each other anymore. What makes Save Yourselves! really work is the wonderful chemistry between John Reynolds and Sunita Mani, both of whom have proved their chops on some of the best television of the last decade - Search Party and GLOW, respectively.
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