The best part of the movie was the section with the young kids at the playground towards the latter half of the movie, when she asked them about their thoughts on love and dating.
For the first 15 minutes of the movie I could NOT get over how mentally slow that Charlene character was. Was that an act? I know that hipsters are supposed to talk slower and walk slower, but that just seemed like her mental synapses were firing at a glacial speed.
On the other hand perhaps her slowness is due to an overuse of pot or other drugs.
Her facial expressions were awkward and some of her reactions just showed that she was beyond immature and some of her reactions just did not make sense. If she was teleported back in time to the 1950s people would think she was "special needs". There is such a contrast between the people she is interviewing and her.
Also I know that hipsters are supposed to be all quirky and individual (even though like all sub-cultures they all dress alike etc.) but I cannot stand hipster dialogue. How does sprouting random nonsense make someone "edgy" or "cool" or "deep".
We all always wear masks, Charlene's may be an outwardly quirky, performing one yet somehow her character seemed more like a 1950's housewife then a liberated modern females. She was just playing roles others expected of her, without discovering who she is. It's like she just wants to be anything but her. She wants to be a boy not a girl. Perhaps she will do a movie/documentary in a few years that is more accepting of herself, and perhaps when she looks back at this documentary she will cringe at her naive, immature self.
When they are in France in her hotel room and the director (who seems like a semi ass-hole)turns to Charlene and says something like I would ask you to shower and all that but I know you so I won't.
Up til that point when I was watching that movie I was sort of wondering if she had any personal hygiene... guess not.
And what is with NOT combing your hair.
And what is with hipsters and creativity, so you make little puppets that a 10 year old could make, does that automatically make you "creative"? If she was trying to be all cute, artsy and folksy she failed.
That song she sings about him smelling like Christmas wins the award for worst song lyrics of all time.
Overall I found this movie disappointing, perhaps if it dragged less and was cut down to an hour it would have been better. And the Cera-Yi relationship part would have impressed me more if there hadn't been that nonsense puppet ending with the police bullets and the Harley.
There were a few moments of humour, and some of the stories were romantic, but why was it always the women talking about how they knew it was love with the men sitting beside them with blank disinterested looks.
And the wedding chapel where the pretty young oriental girl marries the old almost-dead white guy, that kiss between them seemed too fake, it was like the girl was kissing him and going at it like the groom was Brad Pitt.
Essentially the subtext of this movie isn't that positive about love.
The movie is positive about motorbikes though.
And how would I answer her question what do you think love is? I would simply say that she needs immense amounts of therapy. That girl has issues. Also she seems to be a closet-lesbian, she dresses like one. Perhaps she will find love with a girl.
For the first 15 minutes of the movie I could NOT get over how mentally slow that Charlene character was. Was that an act? I know that hipsters are supposed to talk slower and walk slower, but that just seemed like her mental synapses were firing at a glacial speed.
On the other hand perhaps her slowness is due to an overuse of pot or other drugs.
Her facial expressions were awkward and some of her reactions just showed that she was beyond immature and some of her reactions just did not make sense. If she was teleported back in time to the 1950s people would think she was "special needs". There is such a contrast between the people she is interviewing and her.
Also I know that hipsters are supposed to be all quirky and individual (even though like all sub-cultures they all dress alike etc.) but I cannot stand hipster dialogue. How does sprouting random nonsense make someone "edgy" or "cool" or "deep".
We all always wear masks, Charlene's may be an outwardly quirky, performing one yet somehow her character seemed more like a 1950's housewife then a liberated modern females. She was just playing roles others expected of her, without discovering who she is. It's like she just wants to be anything but her. She wants to be a boy not a girl. Perhaps she will do a movie/documentary in a few years that is more accepting of herself, and perhaps when she looks back at this documentary she will cringe at her naive, immature self.
When they are in France in her hotel room and the director (who seems like a semi ass-hole)turns to Charlene and says something like I would ask you to shower and all that but I know you so I won't.
Up til that point when I was watching that movie I was sort of wondering if she had any personal hygiene... guess not.
And what is with NOT combing your hair.
And what is with hipsters and creativity, so you make little puppets that a 10 year old could make, does that automatically make you "creative"? If she was trying to be all cute, artsy and folksy she failed.
That song she sings about him smelling like Christmas wins the award for worst song lyrics of all time.
Overall I found this movie disappointing, perhaps if it dragged less and was cut down to an hour it would have been better. And the Cera-Yi relationship part would have impressed me more if there hadn't been that nonsense puppet ending with the police bullets and the Harley.
There were a few moments of humour, and some of the stories were romantic, but why was it always the women talking about how they knew it was love with the men sitting beside them with blank disinterested looks.
And the wedding chapel where the pretty young oriental girl marries the old almost-dead white guy, that kiss between them seemed too fake, it was like the girl was kissing him and going at it like the groom was Brad Pitt.
Essentially the subtext of this movie isn't that positive about love.
The movie is positive about motorbikes though.
And how would I answer her question what do you think love is? I would simply say that she needs immense amounts of therapy. That girl has issues. Also she seems to be a closet-lesbian, she dresses like one. Perhaps she will find love with a girl.