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7th April 2011

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Okay, I can totally understand how anyone would hate Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming. “Bored, well-educated white kids complain glibly about feeling rudderless after college graduation” is probably not a one-liner that would sell a lot of people, and rightly so. That said, lines like “What I used to be able to pass off as a bad summer might now just turn into a bad life” kind of force me to say that I identify with this movie in more than a few ways, in spite of its many flaws. Anyway, the only reason I bring it up is that this shot from the movie always blows my mind. The first time I noticed it, I thought I must have been imagining things because WHERE IN GOD’S NAME DID YOU FIND AN ESTABLISHMENT TO SHOOT AT WHERE THEY HAVE A NEON SIGN ADVERTISING SNAKE RENTALS?! Amazing! But no, I didn’t imagine it. Snake rentals.

Okay, I can totally understand how anyone would hate Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming. “Bored, well-educated white kids complain glibly about feeling rudderless after college graduation” is probably not a one-liner that would sell a lot of people, and rightly so. That said, lines like “What I used to be able to pass off as a bad summer might now just turn into a bad life” kind of force me to say that I identify with this movie in more than a few ways, in spite of its many flaws.

Anyway, the only reason I bring it up is that this shot from the movie always blows my mind. The first time I noticed it, I thought I must have been imagining things because WHERE IN GOD’S NAME DID YOU FIND AN ESTABLISHMENT TO SHOOT AT WHERE THEY HAVE A NEON SIGN ADVERTISING SNAKE RENTALS?! Amazing!

But no, I didn’t imagine it. Snake rentals.

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