SPOILERS.
Just a few notes:
1.) The title is ironic folks. Jennifer's character does bad things and it hurts a lot of people who, incidently, aren't so nice themselves.
2.) It was much too self-aware to be a good black comedy. The voice overs were too derivative of Raising Arizona (magniloqunet words in a heavy southern accent).
3.) It was too hard to sympathize with either Anniston's character or Holden. The later was too annoying (even to the point where I began to enjoy the writer's obvious attempt to reveal him as the horrible writer that he really was--rather than root for him) and the former was unable to garner the sympathy needed to cheer for her to break free of her mundane life. Maybe it's just that most of us, in fact, lead mundane lives ourselves, and realize that such existances make the world go round, and thus get tired of the constant criticism of it. (Imagine if everyone that conducted the day-to-day business of society decided to "be special")
4.) There were a few funny moments: the other female clerk with her wry, irreverant commentary that is slipped in without warning or pause, the remark by the store manager after Holden's death that he was a thief and a distrubed young man and that "what we should learn form all this is not to be a theif or be disturbed", and the part where the dog rips the sheet away from Bubba ( I laughed out loud at that).
Just a few notes:
1.) The title is ironic folks. Jennifer's character does bad things and it hurts a lot of people who, incidently, aren't so nice themselves.
2.) It was much too self-aware to be a good black comedy. The voice overs were too derivative of Raising Arizona (magniloqunet words in a heavy southern accent).
3.) It was too hard to sympathize with either Anniston's character or Holden. The later was too annoying (even to the point where I began to enjoy the writer's obvious attempt to reveal him as the horrible writer that he really was--rather than root for him) and the former was unable to garner the sympathy needed to cheer for her to break free of her mundane life. Maybe it's just that most of us, in fact, lead mundane lives ourselves, and realize that such existances make the world go round, and thus get tired of the constant criticism of it. (Imagine if everyone that conducted the day-to-day business of society decided to "be special")
4.) There were a few funny moments: the other female clerk with her wry, irreverant commentary that is slipped in without warning or pause, the remark by the store manager after Holden's death that he was a thief and a distrubed young man and that "what we should learn form all this is not to be a theif or be disturbed", and the part where the dog rips the sheet away from Bubba ( I laughed out loud at that).