So I have been dying to see this film. I have no idea why but when I watched the trailer I instantly had the urge to watch it. Needless to say great trailer. Anyway, I had no idea what to really expect about this film a girl comes home after graduating from college and has to deal with life. Thousands of stories and movies have been made about this subject but none, that I have seen, have done it as honestly.
Lena Dunham, lead actress, writer, and director, made a film that is almost a documentary. Every character delivers lines that feel natural and like you are watching people have conversations in real life, not a film. The circumstances are completely normal, average, and mundane in every way, and that is the beauty of this film. A perfect example is when Aura, played by Lena, brings her date home and shows her pet rat to him and the rat is dead. An extremely awkward situation handled in a completely human way. Other scenes that resonated, well every scene with highly dysfunctional Charlotte, deftly played by Jemima Kirke, everything this girl does is so wrong and completely stupid and everyone knows someone like her. Then there is as Charlotte termed him "loafer" Jed, played by Alex Karpovsky, his character is of an intellectual comedian from Youtube that has achieved mild notoriety but lacks moral character. Most of Aura's new friends that she begins hanging out with after she graduates and returns home fall neatly into the lacking moral character. Charlotte is an entitled addict that needs Aura undivided attention: she means well but is fairly useless and unable to let Aura be friends with anyone else. Jed, well he's a loafer that is unwilling to be emotionally vulnerable or sexually available to Aura and wants to be in a comfortable relationship where he sponges off of Aura. Then there is Keith sous chef chief douche bag and wonderfully played by the very sexy David Call. I had seen David in Across the Universe and he did a fantastic job of playing Max and was looking for another movie with him. Well, I was joyfully surprised to see him in this film. He did a wonderful job of getting us attached to his character and wooing us along with Aura. There were so many moments when his character revealed that he was undesirable as a partner etc but he was still irresistible much like many one hookup cheating Xanax addicted users in real life. I think that is this films main strong point is that every character is real and every scene is real. Anyway, totally a must watch for indie film fans and fans of awkward moment movies.
