Aakansha

Greenberg

"I have trouble living in the present, so I linger on the past because I felt like I never really lived it in the first place" I found the second half to be so much better than the first. There were scenes that I really liked but overall I'm not that sure. If Roger Greenberg was an internet person he would have loved yelp.

nathansnook

Greenberg

Mental disorders do not excuse assholeism. From start to finish, misogyny exists through the vessel of some pathetic male who mooches off his brother's pad to do nothing. I will say that I think Baumbach was still experimenting with the flawed man-child. Here, his writing is tremendously better. Better plot. Better dialogue. Doesn't feel too much at once. He begins by writing better female characters. Or maybe, Greta's performance really pushes the story forward. It's a stepping stone with how he deals with the LA/NY rivalry and how men and women communicate. There is an emotional distance he manages to pinpoint so well here but there's still an incredibly amount of animosity that Baumbach exorcises which later subdues into better tragedy in later works. There are some nice elements here. Doing nothing. Wanting to do nothing. What it means to be who you claim to be when you're not doing it. And what it's like to watch all your friends become adults or put up the charade of being an adult.