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For Some Inexplicable Reason, Greta Gerwing, Mistress America, Noah Baumbach, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Vice-Folly-Humbug
It’s funny when someone looks his or her own prejudices and vices in the eye. I always followed – or at least, I claimed to have followed – the strict rules of reviewing films: keep an open mind, put mobile in flight mode, don’t eat popcorn. But it’s time to confess my sins; sometimes I have a very bad attitude towards certain kind of films. For instance I have a really difficult time to watch films about really poor and disadvantaged people, either in documentaries or in fiction. I feel bad – and not exclusively out of my middle-class-white-European-male-guilt but because on many occasions I felt like I was watching porn: having a very intrusive look into someone’s intimate and private suffering can make you feel as s loathsome, nasty and disgusting voyeur, and it made me think that the people I’m watching are being abased solely for the filmmakers selfish need to be admired and awarded – because as any decent ascetic can tell you, suffering sells.