Saturday, July 08, 2023

"Appropriate Behavior"

This 2014 film was listed as one of those small films you may have missed.  I certainly did.  It's the tale of Shirin, a young woman in NYC who does pretty much everything twhich ~isn't~ appropriate.  She is struggling with a breakup and the short film wanders back and forth between her miserable present and her falling-in-love past.  She's funny, in a dry wit sort of way.  Sometimes it lands with the other characters.  Often it doesn't.  She tries too hard, she's lost in her own stuff.  As a viewer, I found it endearing and not cringy.  The movie is very slice of life with minimal musical scoring and a fair amount of sex (which seems appetizing but ends up disappointing for the hapless Shirin).  What I like about her is that she is just out there, being sex positive and unashamed.  She is who she is, warts and all.  And there is something powerful in that.

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