Director: Jason Reitman
I suppose in an age of narcissism where people write their thoughts about movies on the Internet as though anyone cared, it's only realistic that our indie film type characters have gotten more narcissistic. Charlize Theron's Mavis Gary is endlessly self-involved to the point of parody - she's constructed a fantasy world where she can liberate her ex- high school boyfriend from his outwardly happy marriage and satisfying life.
It's tempting, given that Theron's character is a writer of young adult fiction and that the writer wrote Juno, to read this as a meta-film about the difficulty of writing high school characters without being one yourself. On the one hand, this is pretty unfair, but on the other hand, it's damn hard to see other ways of looking at it.
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