Actors: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig
Director: Noah Baumbach
Film, as compared to literature or any other medium, seems best disposed to show the workings of the narcissist. Unlike literature, in (most) film we never get any internal reflections - we are working only with what a person says and does. Ben Stiller's Greenberg in the film of the same name is such a person - intractably self-regarding, lost in the past, unable to enjoy any part of life. Things happen to him in the film; will he change? You'll have to see it to find out.
The film is very much in the Woody Allen vein - at least in Woody Allen films, there's his constant one-liners that brighten the misery. There's humor here, but little of it is joyous laughter. In Greenberg, it feels like the laughs are being wrenched out of us. It's a well-made film, but it deals with parts of our psyche that we'd all like to deny - it's often difficult to enjoy experiencing that.
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