![]() They Don’t Remember It That Way.īillionaires Are Holding a Gun to the Culture Industry’s Head The Famous “Runaway Train” Music Video “Saved” 21 Kids. Netflix’s New Show Stars Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler. Why People Are Losing It Over a Former J. But it rings all too true to anyone who’s ever offered up the fruits of their creative labor to a loved one whose opinion they value. Her whiny response is childish and self-pitying, if amusingly so thanks to Louis-Dreyfus’ mastery of her comic instrument. Well then … never mind!” Beth sniffles before storming away in a huff. He loves her, he assures her-isn’t that all that matters? “Oh, OK. (An aspiring writer himself, Eliot works the counter at a weed dispensary.) Don’s opinion of the manuscript, as he is the first to insist after the truth behind his wife’s rotten mood comes out, is only one reader’s reaction. As she grudgingly assents to her sister, she knows she has it pretty good with her cozy Manhattan apartment, devoted partner, and affectionate if aimless son. ![]() Beth’s inability to get past the ego blow dealt by that fateful moment of eavesdropping is easy to identify with-I mean, the man lied about liking the book over the course of 20 drafts!-but it’s also, objectively, absurd. That sounds like a dour theme for a movie, but You Hurt My Feelings (which whisks by at 93 minutes) makes it both a serious subject of contemplation and a source of effervescent comedy. More than the study of a single character, You Hurt My Feelings is a chamber piece about a quartet of people contending with the same common yet painful life experience: the realization, a few decades into adulthood, that one’s future seems unlikely to be as successful, as fulfilling, as special as one had been led to hope. Send me updates about Slate special offers.
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