Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Indies


 Comedy 
Drew Barrymore & that chap with fake-looking teeth that makes him look older than necessary. 

Mistress America  
Small scale, Indie movies usually have good work. 

Minus mind-numbing excessive displays of vanity or the endless pursuit of prosperity; Indie movies usually dwell into complex, conflicting & compromising feelings and decisions, which are more relatable to people who are real to themselves, which I think, is a small circle. 


Mistress America is about a late teen girl, settling into college in New York.
She is an aspiring novelist but over time, she discovers the snobbishness of the so-called "elite" writing club. She drops out of it after doing some soul-searching despite her initial eagerness to be admitted into the club.


She spent a weekend with her supposedly soon-to-be half-sister (their parents were planning on marrying each other). During the adventurous weekend spent with her sibling-to-be, the girl forms her judgement of her sister-to-be (who is in her late 20s). She thinks that her sister-to-be has a "sad" life despite all her "happening" activities, eg: she champions for causes, she teaches spin classes at the gym, she meets investors for restaurant business building, and documents her seemingly energetic lifestyle on social media all the time, feeding off superficial "likes" from digital friends. The younger girl thinks that that is a sad life despite all its prettiness.

She began writing down feverishly the life of her sibling-to-be and submitted her short novel based on her sibling-to-be to the writing club in her college.  

The group of older people (friends of her sibling-to-be) were equally confrontational when they've all discovered about the short novel inspired by the older girl. They threatened to sue the teen, they all felt that it was not for her to judge others, especially after spending only one night or one weekend with that person. The teen, however, is sorry to have caused hurt but she is not sorry for having write that novel although she tried to deny it was based on her sibling-to-be. 

They eventually got news that their parents have called off their wedding plans. That leaves them feeling rather awkward-- do they forgive and still be friends? After having gone through a whirlpool of emotional explosive weekend, they somewhat are bonded by an invisible thread of womanhood, of being stoic, young women. Sisters by name, I would say. 

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