Lena Dunham on her pantslessness.
I saw this movie with my mom on Friday and liked it A LOT.
My favorite part is when she asks her mom if she was just googling cupcakes. (Yes).
My mom, I knew, probably did not like the movie, because we saw Love and Other Drugs the night before on the recommendation of my younger sister who was in Chicago having an “orphan’s thanksgiving” with her friends (just to drive the knife in a little further for my mother) and she really liked it. So off we went to BAM, turning off the pumpkin pie oven and throwing on coats all wine-drunk and running to catch the G at the very last second.
I cringed a lot at Love and Other Drugs and I wasn’t even in a critical, cringing mood. You know, I wasn’t in that UGH MY FAMILY IS FULL OF PHILISTINES groany childish mood. I was in a, let’s be swept up by ann hathaway’s ass and try to pretend for 2 seconds that Jake G might be straight and not look like a frog. Ann Hathaway is HOT, I think. But this was embarrassingly fuck-filled and pandery and I did not appreciate the message of EVERYONE NEEDS SOMEONE (EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS!). I pointed this out, terrible human that I am, to my mom on the train, that I thought that was the Takeaway Message and she defended it, saying it was sweet. And I said, but MO-OM, not everyone can have someone, some people die alone! Not everyone finds someone and they can’t control it! And then they are going to just feel bad when they see this movie, or have unreasonable expectations, and hate themselves and then have to go see 10 more of these shithole movies to numb their own pain! And my mom was like, YEAH DUH EXACTLY IT’S GREAT.
Well, basically. No actually she was like, I hope I am not alone forever and i was like SHOULDA SEEN TINY FURNITURE.
So we did the next day, as I was saying earlier, and on THAT train ride home I finally was like, “So did you like it?” and she was like NO! and I was like, but she is amazing! that woman is 24 years old and wrote and directed it, in a MOVIE, and she is so cute! And mom was quiet and I was like, I LOVE HOW HER BUTT IS ALWAYS HANGING OUT and my mom was like YEAH LOL REMINDS ME OF SOMEONE, because just that morning when we were getting ready to leave she was like IF I HAVE TO SEE YOUR REAR END ONE MORE TIME I AM GOING TO DIE (I have a problem of not sitting very ladylike / not wearing pants).
Anyway I think this movie is about moms and daughters, other things, too but this most uniquely maybe, and you should see it w. your mom if you can. She might hate it but at least it will not make her worry about being alone forever. Or it might but in a less excruciating way.
Plus you know all Moms google stuff like “cupcakes” and “flowers” when we aren’t looking.
