Sometimes there is a sweetness or heart to a movie that means even if it isn’t a great movie you find yourself kind of wanting to hug it. I am not an expert on film by any stretch but I often feel like this comes from the performances, talented actors can take slight or standard material and fill it with that extra something to make you connect to it. Yesterday I went to see Safety Not Guaranteed and I enjoyed it. The biggest reason was Aubrey Plaza who I thought did an excellent job of taking her standard comic persona she has become known for and tweaking it, taking what we expect from it and going another way, adding a lot of heart to what at it’s core is a love story. She managed to be thorny but also tender and vulnerable. She’s always funny and she’s always pretty but in this she also was a little something extra. That’s really what many entries tend to be about, people who add something extra, that something that sticks with you. That’s what this one is about, today I want to fuck Aubrey Plaza.
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