Polarity is precisely how pop culture conceptualizes millennials—you are either checked out of the world (selfie-taking, brunch-eating) or blindly, desperately trying to change it (via Twitter).
, the series opener, watches a massacre survivor after she becomes famous overnight for her memorial song.
The film also functions as a vehicle for Natalie Portman to sing Sia in sequins, indulging in this generation’s pop cultural lust and therefore making Portman my favorite“We Can’t Even” is not two straight weeks of the Plagued Millennial. There’s the Aimless sub-genre, with the camera always searching—for some kind of purpose in a Beverly Hills walk-in closet , or for value in the Facebook video rabbit hole you fell into after your aunt tagged you in a meme .
These films take on the Big Issues, but ultimately, their protagonists are just trying to live their lives. “I’m not messy, I’m just busy,” spits Greta Gerwig in Aimless Millennial favorite. As I leave BAM to go get drinks with my fellow 20-somethings, I’ll say something to the same effect, discussing my various tribulations in between the topics of presidential candidates and Whitney Biennial controversy. None of us can even, anymore, and this group of films can commiserate.
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