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Reality Bites with Bridget Todd

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Movie Review - Trailed Off

i appreciate that this is a movie like written by a woman writing about her own experiences it's coming from a pretty privileged place because at least the the characters are broke but they're broke in the way that white college graduates from supportive middle class families working entry level jobs yes are broke not poor right yeah. It just feels gross to make a movie where things like money and labor and socioeconomic class are major themes of the movie but the movie only features educated middle class white people i do not like that the movie is predicated on which of these two guys is she going to choose  and then she picks the guy who has been actively cruel to her throughout the entire movie I hate that for her

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