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- Review Format:
- DVD
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- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Directors:
Directors Noah Baumbach 
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Outstanding Performances Greta GERWIG Rhys IFANS Ben STILLER 
- Premiss:
- A man moves to figure out his life while he house‑sits for his brother. He is soon attracted to his brother’s assistant.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Curative | Curiosity | Destiny | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Personal change | Political | Political Correctness | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Sexual Repression | Social class | Society | Snobbery | Solipsism | The State | Stereotyping | The West | White culture | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
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AS the lazy middle‑class in the West today suck‑up to the upper‑class in order to gain the acceptance of the latter – in hopes of obtaining at least some of the benefits of being rich (without too much effort) – so lazy Jews suck‑up to Whites; in hopes of obtaining at least some of the benefits of being White‑in‑a‑White‑supremacist‑culture (without too much effort).
Yet, political appeasement has never been shown to work; while inevitably leading you to become the very thing you secretly hate the most; the very fear‑filled reason for the appeasement, in the first place.
In this movie, the Jewish characters act like Whites‑without‑a‑culture – adrift from their own heritage; playing mind games in order to avoid taking the necessary responsibility for their own lives. The fact that these people’s relationships are superficial, shallow & unsatisfying is effectively parodied and satirized here in that, like tv, everything is on the same level of importance, but the reasons for the depthless directionlessness in the lives on show is never explored; making this an amusing film about boring people.
There are no real personal relationships here, only ones mediated by pain, fear & anxiety: Hurt people hurt people. People doing what they do not feel; feeling what they do not do.
Ben STILLER is excellent in a subtle portrayal of a man drifting disinterestedly from one tiresome and enervating experience to another. Greta GERWIG and Rhys IFANS are also excellent, in support; helping make this charming and mostly‑honest film eminently‑watchable.
In fact, all of the performers here successfully‑contribute to the generalized feeling that the central characters cannot openly‑relate to one another except in terms of obsessive self‑analysis, the concomitantly‑morbid analysis & blame of others and the nitpicking criticism of anyone they do not know personally. All because they have no clear sense of who they and others are, because they choose to try and avoid the many pains of living in exchange for the false pleasure of reality‑avoidance.
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