48. "this, i think, is my stumbling block with this movie" In response to In response to 47
Everyone who enjoys it seems to be bringing their love of other texts to it. Very little of what you mention is actually on screen in *this* movie.
What we do have are three semi-dimensional characters surrounded by a pack of thinly drawn caricatures, cobbled together with contrivances and happenstance.
I just need anyone who loved this movie to explain how the ex-husband's girlfriend isn't an embarrassingly juvenile, C-level sitcom reject? This is a character who, having just read a book, doesn't know if it was about polo or polio. How am I supposed to care about anything of substance that happens in a universe that includes that person?
The lazy, half-addressed politics of the film didn't bother me half as much as the messy construction of the script.