Saw Anomalisa tonight. The style was awesome and some of the themes were cool, but I'm seconding a friend's opinion about being tired of the old white guy using people and still somehow being the victim.
I felt kind of uncomfortable at one point. It reminded me of last Valentine's Day when a married dude tried to sleep with me because I've been single a long time and he assumed I would be grateful for the
attention. (I let him down more gently than I should have, really.) But in the film, she's ~so grateful~ for his utter use and abuse of her it just.. ugh. So egocentric and narcissistic.
+100
I'm increasingly pissed off about that movie
The fact that Bella even comes back.. and then Lisa's super nice letter "oh I understand" because she has no self worth but poor Michael!
/huff
One of the press said "most over hyped and overrated film of awards season" and I was like y e p
can't argue with that.
I've been playing with this thought exercise of what the movie would have been like if you had a Michelle Stone instead of a Michael
with like, literally everything else the same. just change the gender of the main character.
I think it would have been a better movie.
At least it would have been refreshing that way. I wanted Lisa to have an empowering moment of any kind.
yeah, basically anything valuable the movie might have had to say is canceled out for me by the fact that Lisa is just used, by Michael and by the narrative
doubly annoying because I really do love Michael's "every person has a body" speech, and the irony of it coming from a guy who totally fails at empathy
I liked that the shiny new became the same old as he got to know her better. I thought it fitting that everything was a reflection of
himself as a narcissist. It was surprisingly funny. But my main take away is the use of Lisa. :c