I find disaffectedness as an aesthetic kind of glib. Beautiful yet inexplicably socially stunted young woman is a somewhat cliche tragic figure, and I’m bored by her morbid ideation as a proxy for hidden depths. We don’t even get to know her any better than her office flirt so it’s kind of solipsistic and lame.
The director seems to want to punctuate her plain office life with drama, with these dreamy orchestral interludes, (another indication of her brimming emotional world,…