Before watching the movie:

This month I’m taking a look at movies that seem to have defined my generation but I missed anyway. So I’ll start off with one that’s been at the top of my list of movies I feel left out about for over a decade and a half.
All I really know about this movie is that it’s about a relationship, I think it goes badly, and it’s one of the defining movies of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl character archetype, the millennial-coded hipster free spirit love icon. Also I know it as the movie that made it apparent that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was going to continue his acting career as an adult.

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