Rid of Me

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Audience Member This is the only movie I can relate to as a socially awkward woman. I love it's dark humor and how real it can get. The low-budget indie looking style of the movie is hard to watch at first but it grows on you as you watch it and fits the style of the movie. The beginning scene is off-putting but at the same time it hooks you. Great writing. Rid Of Me is now my favorite indie film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm fairly used to the feeling that often stand alone in my opinions regarding "film art" --- but every once in a while a movie comes along that I find not only unique in perspective but to be surprisingly potent. James Westby's 2011 independent film was largely ignored and dismissed by the time it found it's way to a very small theatrical release. What particularly annoys me about the way it has been so easily dismissed is that I know had the movie been about a male character played by someone like Seth Rogen or Will Ferrell it would have "won hearts" and made money. Rid of Me is a very dark comedy about a grown woman who has spent her life allowing the passively dominant cultural and economic class societal structure to force her entire identity into a box. When the uncomfortable but safety that box provides tosses her out -- she is sent on an comical, profane and often existential quest to not only find herself but to determine which group of people she needs to conform to at this stage of life's game. Merris has clearly never grown up. Westby plays with cultural stereotypes and places our protagonist in a number of uncomfortably funny situations. Given what this film accomplishes on what appears to be shoe string budget, it is a fun and twisted ride of a movie. I suspect it is the twist that this movie is about a woman instead of the stereotype but benignly lovable "boy-man" that puts so many viewers at odds with the film. Katie O'Grady is exceptionally committed to her role. By no means is this film perfect. There are flaws, but what one will find here is so much more than you're likely to find in the typical crap Hollywood cranks out for the few leading ladies believed to be "bankable" This is an entertaining movie that offers a perspective that is far more cutting than you might realize at first glimpse or from the other reviews I see here. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Great break up movie Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Be prepared for a really gross opening scene, which you find out later is totally deserved. Otherwise, this is a decent movie about a coming-of-age ritual (the major breakup) told from the female dumpee's point of view. Go, riotgrrrls! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Awesome HD-like cinematography. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Push through, it gets more interesting. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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