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July 16, 2009
Voynaristic: Until the Credits Do Us Part
I think part of why Humpday has connected with audiences so strongly on the fest circuit is that writer-director Lynn Shelton's depiction of Ben and Anna's (Mark Duplass and Alycia Delmore) marriage rings so true, especially when compared to how relationships are typically depicted in rom-coms. Today's movie husbands have evolved, mostly, into overgrown adolescents who would do nothing but smoke pot, drink beer, screw around and play video games if it weren't for the incessant nagging and micro-managing of the wife, who's usually portrayed and shrewish, bitchy and manipulative.
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Posted by kvoynar at July 16, 2009 10:41 AM
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