December 3, 2010
Tiny Furniture
I wrote a review about Tiny Furniture, a movie I deeply believe in, and gave it an A grade. It’s so hard to write about things you love.
It seems entirely obvious to me that the reason the film feels so genuine is because it is created from the stuff of life. Details are noticed and replicated — the little fights between siblings, the awkward conversations you have with people you work with, the way you say horrible things you immediately regret — these are all stops along a well-traveled territory. Lena Dunham has directed her family in a movie about themselves, where they are playing themselves. This could be seen as taking self-documentation to an almost embarrassing level, but Dunham has done something more than navel-gaze. She has created an outstanding work that presents an entirely relatable version of one girl’s post-grad delirium.
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I look forward to seeing this.
There are so many good lines that it floors me.
“Whenever I write a poem I feel like someone with all these… ‘feelings.’”
“Now the thing about your friends, now, they weren’t ahhssholes, were they?”
“No, not at all.”
“Now see, that’s the problem. Our people are ahhssholes.”
UGH I’M WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW.