Young Adult- Jason Reitman
*Editor’s note: I’m not entirely sure how I ended up watching Young Adult… I can’t stand Jason Reitman and although I’ve enjoyed all his films, they have all been forgotten. A few characters remain here and there, but for the most part, I can’t tell you what I think about them now because I just don’t. The problem is that I know I did leave them all having felt something. This is why Young Adult has proven to be especially unique; it might the first Reitman film to have genuinely unsettled me. Diablo Cody detractors do make a fair point most of the time, but Mavis Gary stands alone in the rogues’ gallery of characters she has created. Charlize Theron initially glares her way throughout the beginning of the film and it’s only later that you realize she has fucking lost it. She possibly never had it at all really. I don’t how or if I’ll remember Young Adult in a month, but I do know that right now, I feel particularly fragile after spending 90 minutes in Mercury, Minnesota with Mavis Gary.
