#materialists press

She talks about other people—and herself!—in gross terms. Everyone in the movie insists she’s the best at her job, though, and she even gets an offer to take over the match-making agency, but will likely turn that down For Love.

When, at the climax of the movie, she says she’s terrible, not worth loving, and materialistic (roll credits!), Chris Evans insists loving her is easy. He imagines her with wrinkles and their future children. He says he’ll love her until the day he dies.

The problem, and I promise I’m not being catty, is that I cannot for the life of me understand why. We see them in one flashback and they’re arguing about street parking, and he’s kind of a dick, and she gets out of the car and yells at him in the street, saying that she can’t love him if he’s broke.

That’s it?? Where is the fucking LOVE??? WHERE is the YEARNING!!! I didn’t want a montage of them slow dancing in the kitchen or anything tropey, but I did want to see a real moment between them. And we did, I suppose.

Is that the point? That the majority of a relationship can be scraping and fighting and miserable, but the love is still there? Maybe I stumbled into what they were getting at as I write this review, but the issue is that I just don’t care. I don’t care about this character and what she decides to do or not do with her boyfriends, past and present."

Last night, I watched Materialists, directed by Celine Song, and it was a pleasant breath of fresh air. If you're going into this movie thinking it's about Dakota Johnson having to chose between Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, know that it's not that simple. It's an exploration of love and how our search for it can lead us to become petty and needy and gloss over the true significance of the sentiment. So many times we chose to put ourselves and others into rigid boundaries because we seek perfection in a partner and ourselves. We date, fall in love, and break up with people in manners that are so engrained in our society that they become second nature. However, when we choose to let our guard down and be vulnerably honest with ourselves, then, we have a higher chance of making meaningful connections.