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movie review - I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2017.06.11

This is a movie about a loser name Ruth whose home is robbed. She engages a local weirdo in her case, and things escalate dramatically from there. The story is fairly straightforward, but it's the movie's viewpoint that matters. I can't think of something else that captures the same view of the world, in which assholes rampage through life making it impossible for everyone else. Pushed beyond anything she can tolerate, the main character hardens and is quickly out of her league but as events unfold she rises to it with naïve confidence and little else to go on. And the assholes, my god. A crucial scene takes place in a McMansion with people so unlikable it's hard to describe. But our girl stays true to herself and comes away with .. a win?

I enjoyed it immensely, this is probably the best film I've seen this year. Recommended.

rand()m quote

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman