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Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
A depressing review of millennial culture
I keep seeing this movie described With the tag lines: 'inspirational' and 'funny' and I can't understand why. I laughed once during this movie and it was a not that big of a laugh. A bigger problem for me was the pervasive pettiness, selfishness, shallowness, and overall feeling of being mired in jealousy and wishing negative things on others. Bc of all of these negative emotions, I found it difficult to feel at all sympathetic for Britney to the point that I really did not care at all what happened to her in the end. The movie could have ended with her accidentally falling into a volcano and I wouldn't have batted an eyelash. It's hard to watch a movie where the millennial protagonist is someone who is obsessed with her online presence, only views her friends as objects to be jealous of or to pity, and not only seems to hate herself, but she hates overweight people in general. There's nothing very inspirational or funny there, and I don't know anyone who acts like this in real life. This movie feels like it's striving to create drama where none exists and not striving to create comedy where it's desperately needed.