Friday, June 24, 2005

From the desk of The Movie Snob:

Funny Ha Ha (B-). This little movie really captured the essence of independent film — grainy looking, occasionally hard to hear, and unapologetically low-budget. It’s about a 23-year-old college graduate named Marnie, a girl with an unspecified degree (almost certainly in the liberal arts), little ambition, and seemingly few prospects. The camera just follows her around for a few months, the movie starting and ending at seemingly random moments in her life. She goes from a nondescript temp job to a nondescript research job, she hangs out with friends, she has a crush on a guy who is even less mature than she is while a different immature guy has a crush on her. The director does an especially good job of capturing the way these young people talk; like characters in a Whit Stillman film, they have a very hard time being direct with each other, but unlike Stillman’s characters, these kids are also grossly inarticulate. Strip their conversations of the "I means," "you knows," and the ubiquitous "I’m sorries," and you would have a virtually silent film. Although not much happens, the movie kept me wondering what would happen next, and although Marnie is a passive and somewhat pathetic figure, I still liked her and rooted for her to escape her apathy and ennui. An interesting snapshot of Generation Y.

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