Saw Materialists (film) 📽️ yesterday and was surprised how annoyed this movie got me. As someone who has dated extremely actively for three years it apparently hit a nerve.

Warning: here be spoilers. If you wish to see the movie fresh, don’t read further.

First the good parts: the funny parts of the movie were actually really, really funny and witty. Glimpses into dating world of the professional and rich class of NYC was painful and funny to watch. Not my world luckily, Finnish dating isn’t quite this awful. Or at least in this particular, materialist way.

The bad parts: I don’t mind silly, but I want silly to be playful and not caveman romances or leg extension surgery on a super-rich guy that is still supposedly very likeable. Pedro’s character was weird and not believable. The plot was not paced correctly and the inevitable break up still seemed to come from nowhere. All and all, everything interesting in this movie happened around the main characters and not because of them.

Aside: the most fun and romantic scene was played under the end titles. Please, take that energy back to the whole movie.

And the awful part: movie depicts attack on one of the side characters. Handling that is sloppy and rushed and not believeable. Most importantly, it seems to exist in the movie only to make the main character to have her redemption arc. Don’t put stuff like this into a movie, if you are not ready to actually play it out.

In conclusion, this movie made me feel things. Sadly, mostly because it wasted the great movie inside it.