Everything I Never Needed To Know I learned from ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

This film does an excellent job of saying absolutely nothing.

Directed by, and starring, Miranda July, this film has a setup similar to that of Magnolia or Crash- a bunch of random people and how their stories interact. July plays the starving artist Christine Jesperson, who's power color is pink. Her art makes no sense, and she is slightly neurotic and lonely and desperate. She sends a video of her work to big art exec Nancy Herrington, played by Tracy Wright, who finally watches it and may or may not be touched by it. Christine then meets Richard Swersey, played by John Hawkes, who in the first scene sets his hand on fire in effort to either deal with his divorce or to make his kids think he's cool. Richard is a shoe salesman, and Christine finds herself there every day. They have the most awkward courtship imaginable and end the movie on a date.

Richard has joint custody over his two mulato sons, Miles Thompson (Peter) and Brandon Ratcliffe (Robby). Inspired by his older brother, Robby, who's about six or seven years old, ends up in an online filty cyber relationship with a woman. They plan to meet, and in a surprise twist, two other stories collide (on the off chance you do see it, that part's too good to spoil.)

The film portrays itself as obviously indie- long, artsy, reflective shots, and strange, "different" people. After I finished it, I spent a few minutes in quiet reflection thinking about what I had just seen, and came out of it realizing I just wasted an hour and a half of my life. It left me feeling pointless and slightly confused as to why the story had no major point. See this movie if you're weird, lonely, and if you're power color's pink. Overall score: D