1. Tiny Furniture
The Politics: Lena Dunham is difficult to figure out. She writes stories about people that are completely unlikable and useless in every sense of the word, yet these stories are not meant to poke fun at such characters but meant to show them as representations of a "generation." Whatever. Tiny Furniture was about a young woman getting out of college and being cut off by her parents financially. She has no idea what she wants to do and no talent beyond making strange videos of herself half naked in water fountains and calling them art with a straight face. The movie presented a typical young liberal person going through life's "difficulties" like parents cutting you off or capitalism being a bit too tough. Poor girl. But, then again, I could be wrong. Maybe this isn't a liberal film meant to appeal to the Occupy generation and a self pitying victim creating generation. Even still, it's hard to imagine any hard nosed Republican or ambition loving Libertarian enjoying this story of self pity about ambition-less and whiny hipsters navigating lives that really are not that difficult.
Is It Any Good? Tiny Furniture is one of the worst films I've ever seen and might be the most overrated film in a decade.