Review of Mutual Appreciation (2005) by Alison P — 26 May 2008
I feel a little weird giving this one three stars. I can understand why people hate it. I hated the first 20 minutes of it, and was fairly close to giving up. I'm actually glad I didn't. The main thing it has going for it is how realistic it is.
The characters are never really put in situations where they want to talk about their challenges and failures frankly. We only ever see the brave faces they put on for each other. But you can read a lot of the characters' inner life off of these brave faces.
Bujalski succeeds in going for an extreme version of showing and not telling.
This review of Mutual Appreciation (2005) was written by Alison P on 26 May 2008.
Mutual Appreciation has generally received positive reviews.
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