Mutual Appreciation Society
The World of Andrew Bujalski
You also really feel time passing in those scenes, which is something most narrative films rarely allow you to do. Were those long pauses written into the script?
Look, if you looked at a transcript of the film next to the script of the film, you’d find they certainly don’t match up word for word, but there is some attempt to drive at that rhythm even in the script. The tricky part, and the part that’s hard to know if you’ve gotten right, is how to give the sense of an interminable party without it feeling oppressively interminable. I did my best at that, and obviously it’s up to every individual audience member to make up his or her own mind. But I enjoy a lot of movies that drag in parts — for something to drag is not always a fault.
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Both movies, on some level, seem to be about, for lack of a better way of putting it, the fear of growing up.
Certainly, I think, fear of adulthood is a theme that pervades both films, probably even more so in Mutual Appreciation. And now that you mention it, maybe that is something that is specific, if not to “my generation,” then at least my subset of it. I feel like a lot of people I know, myself included, are still figuring out what we’re doing, are single and so forth, even though we’re now at a point where we’re older than our parents were when they were married and had us.
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