Tiny Furniture
I finally watched Tiny Furniture. It's an indie-film about a girl, Aura, recently graduated from college who moves back home to her mom & younger sister in New York City. Aura's mom is a successful artist, and her younger sister is an over-achiever entering her senior year of high school. Aura doesn't know what she's doing with her life. She spent four years at a college in Ohio, earning a degree in some sort of liberal arts, had a hippie boyfriend who left her to follow his hippie dreams in Colorado, and now, she's returned to her home. She doesn't have a job, but there's a future plan that she and Frankie, a college friend, will get an apartment when Frankie is finished with her research assistantship. Until then, Aura has no plans, and she seems unsure of what to do with her college education. After meeting an 'internet' celebrity, Jed, at a friend's house part and rekindling a friendship with a person from her past, Aura proceeds through the rest of the movie to make lack-luster decisions including letting Jed stay with her while her mother and sister are out of town, getting a hosting job and quitting a week later, having sex in a pipe in the street with one of the sous chefs from her ex-job, and telling Frankie, her college friend, the day before she moves to NYC that she can't get an apartment with her.
I had really wanted to like this. I saw the trailer and perceived it to be a realistic look at the current twenty-something dilemma: over-schooled, unemployed, living at home, and making drab, depressing relationship decisions. Aura would like you to know that she's having a very, very hard time. It was all of those things, a non-glossy look at a twenty-something out of college, but it was underwhelmingly out of touch. Aura had a very successful artist mother and was able to stay in a very rich neighborhood in New York City and not worry about rent or paying for food. Those issues are brought up, but no one likes when the rich complain about their lack of money.After reading a bit about it on the imdb page, Lena Dunham who plays Aura is the writer and director of Tiny Furniture. Her real mother and sister play Aura's mother and sister for the movie. The situation and people are quite autobiographically, but it turned into a story I didn't care about or really find compelling. My favorite parts in the movie involved Aura reading her mother's diary from when her mother was her age. It seemed it would be a reoccurring thread through the movie and while it did transpire through the whole film, it proved unable to support the sporadic story line. At one point, I thought Aura would make a correlation to the diary and her life, as what she was reading was a direct clone of a previous incident between her and Jed, the lines said in the scene and the lines in the diary were very similar that one might have concluded that Jed had also read the diary and was quoting from it. Alas, no. I often want to full circle and create symbolism in objects. Show me something at the beginning, point to it, flail it around, and I expect that by the end it of the story it should mean something. I guess sometimes, there aren't signs to be seen.
Overall, I won't recommend this to someone. While I appreciated the roughness of the characters, they weren't glossy; they were normal; the lack of cohesiveness that could have helped mask the distaste for the main character proved too distracting.
I love the trailer. I rewatched the trailer and was like, damn i want to see that movie. Oh wait, I have. Those parts in the trailer are the best parts. That's the entire movie right there, no need to spend 1 hour and 40 minutes on the full thing. Also, I'm not sure what all those reviewers are thinking, but it's not a very good coming-of-age story. She doesn't make any self-realizations which is a key part of be a coming-of-age story and she actually, by the end, makes you dislike her and her entitlement.
Watch trailer here
I had really wanted to like this. I saw the trailer and perceived it to be a realistic look at the current twenty-something dilemma: over-schooled, unemployed, living at home, and making drab, depressing relationship decisions. Aura would like you to know that she's having a very, very hard time. It was all of those things, a non-glossy look at a twenty-something out of college, but it was underwhelmingly out of touch. Aura had a very successful artist mother and was able to stay in a very rich neighborhood in New York City and not worry about rent or paying for food. Those issues are brought up, but no one likes when the rich complain about their lack of money.After reading a bit about it on the imdb page, Lena Dunham who plays Aura is the writer and director of Tiny Furniture. Her real mother and sister play Aura's mother and sister for the movie. The situation and people are quite autobiographically, but it turned into a story I didn't care about or really find compelling. My favorite parts in the movie involved Aura reading her mother's diary from when her mother was her age. It seemed it would be a reoccurring thread through the movie and while it did transpire through the whole film, it proved unable to support the sporadic story line. At one point, I thought Aura would make a correlation to the diary and her life, as what she was reading was a direct clone of a previous incident between her and Jed, the lines said in the scene and the lines in the diary were very similar that one might have concluded that Jed had also read the diary and was quoting from it. Alas, no. I often want to full circle and create symbolism in objects. Show me something at the beginning, point to it, flail it around, and I expect that by the end it of the story it should mean something. I guess sometimes, there aren't signs to be seen.
Overall, I won't recommend this to someone. While I appreciated the roughness of the characters, they weren't glossy; they were normal; the lack of cohesiveness that could have helped mask the distaste for the main character proved too distracting.
I love the trailer. I rewatched the trailer and was like, damn i want to see that movie. Oh wait, I have. Those parts in the trailer are the best parts. That's the entire movie right there, no need to spend 1 hour and 40 minutes on the full thing. Also, I'm not sure what all those reviewers are thinking, but it's not a very good coming-of-age story. She doesn't make any self-realizations which is a key part of be a coming-of-age story and she actually, by the end, makes you dislike her and her entitlement.
Watch trailer here