The Worst Person In The World (2021)

I have to say that I am not 100% sure that I even vaguely get this movie, which I would characterize as a messy but likely more accurate than most depiction of a coming of age movie. The thing that I think is both of key importance, and also the thing that I get the least is that it is about millenials. They were born into a world that doesn't demand much of them early on, but somehow that lack of pressure feels like part of the problem. In days gone by, one had to get the job, the spouse, the kids, and get on with it. Young people now are caught in this strange purgatory between child and adult. Enter Julie, a fickle Norwegian who has never stayed committed to one thing in her entire life. A teenaged overachiever, she dabbled in medicine before she discovered that she was more interested in matters of the soul than the body. So, she cuts and dyes her hair, dumps her med school lover and pivots to psychology pursuits before burning that all down too, shifting once again—this time to photography. But unsurprisingly, photography manages to bore Julie as well, and soon enough she’s off to the next new thing, next new hairstyle, next new guy iand never quite settling in to who and what she wants to be. Two events, back to back, rock her world enough that she is jolted into moving forward. It is a puzzling and yet enjoyable movie with a couple of Oscar nominations to its credit.