Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I didn't know anything going into this except that it has Meryl Streep and is supposedly an iconic film. But to be honest it was just okay for me, gave me trauma flashbacks to working at Korean hagwons under bad bosses, and made me angrily pause the movie to rant aloud to myself about toxic workplaces. It must be better if you watched it in the 2000s or something. I did emphatically say YES when Anne Hathaway gave the line about how tyrannical men vs women bosses are perceived though. Facts.
WHAT did I just watch? This is a straight-up rant. Spoilers start paragraph 2.
This reminds me of Garden of Words, the short anime movie, except on steroids. Not JUST an inappropriate relationship between a pretty, but troubled, grown-ass woman and a teenage boy in a film trying to be deep, but one where the adult literally gets out of prison for statutory rape in the first 3 mins and then proceeds to dive back into the relationship with the…