Really really disliked this Lizzy character. I felt so palpably angry towards her. She’s pretty mean to people and I mean not for nothing, like I would be pretty pissed too if I didn’t have hot water for weeks and my family were assholes. But then again, if my asshole family got me a cool art school job despite my uninspired and kinda shitty art and I had a nice house maybe I would express some gratitude idk. She just seemed to be lacking depth as a character and I wasn’t into it. But part of me is thinking maybe that is the point? People just automatically expect a woman to perform and float around like a happy fairy. Or if she’s insistent on being miserable, at the very least she should look good doing it. Maybe this is meant to be an intense reality check of a normal woman who is having a not so great time and in turn doesn’t try appealing to people and wears awkward clothes and makes bad art, in order to reveal the audience’s hidden antiwoman bias. Very well could be and in that case well done Kelly!
Buuuut it also seemed like she was trying to get me to empathise with an art school nepo baby type of person and this might just be a personal failure of mine, but I cannot do that shit. Like bro you have a job and a house and you’re an adult who can do art in your free time.
It's a shame really, like the setting of this movie was pretty cool. I enjoyed watching her walk through the halls of the school peering into different rooms and seeing the different projects people were immersed in. It was a sweet homely vibe. In a way that kind of emphasised my distaste for Lizzy, though. Here are all these cool people working on cool things in a cool place, yet I’m being made to focus on the lamest least expressive character.
Also this idea of a jaded, indifferent person having to care for something delicate and learning empathy along the way is just tired to me. This has been done so many times before.
So idk really. Pretty hard to watch a movie about a grumpy woman. Maybe that’s the point maybe it isn’t.
Really really disliked this Lizzy character. I felt so palpably angry towards her. She’s pretty mean to people and I mean not for nothing, like I would be pretty pissed too if I didn’t have hot water for weeks and my family were assholes. But then again, if my asshole family got me a cool art school job despite my uninspired and kinda shitty art and I had a nice house maybe I would express some gratitude idk. She just seemed to be lacking depth as a character and I wasn’t into it. But part of me is thinking maybe that is the point? People just automatically expect a woman to perform and float around like a happy fairy. Or if she’s insistent on being miserable, at the very least she should look good doing it. Maybe this is meant to be an intense reality check of a normal woman who is having a not so great time and in turn doesn’t try appealing to people and wears awkward clothes and makes bad art, in order to reveal the audience’s hidden antiwoman bias. Very well could be and in that case well done Kelly!
Buuuut it also seemed like she was trying to get me to empathise with an art school nepo baby type of person and this might just be a personal failure of mine, but I cannot do that shit. Like bro you have a job and a house and you’re an adult who can do art in your free time.
It's a shame really, like the setting of this movie was pretty cool. I enjoyed watching her walk through the halls of the school peering into different rooms and seeing the different projects people were immersed in. It was a sweet homely vibe. In a way that kind of emphasised my distaste for Lizzy, though. Here are all these cool people working on cool things in a cool place, yet I’m being made to focus on the lamest least expressive character.
Also this idea of a jaded, indifferent person having to care for something delicate and learning empathy along the way is just tired to me. This has been done so many times before.
So idk really. Pretty hard to watch a movie about a grumpy woman. Maybe that’s the point maybe it isn’t.
