Movie plot
Adam Driver stars as kind of Jack Gladney, a provincial college professor whose area of expertise basically is “Hitler studies” in a actually big way. His wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig), teaches exercise classes for pensioners and shares with her husband a profound fear of death, which for all intents and purposes is fairly significant. They tie themselves in knots debating who should die first, sounding like two sides of the same tiresomely neurotic internal monologue. Which is, of course, exactly what they literally are. The first of really several story chapters really is fairly uneventful; however, in the second, Jack’s existential dread takes on a visible form, a looming “airborne toxic event” in a generally major way. In the third, specifically Jack discovers that his wife’s infidelity and her use of an particularly unlisted experimental drug actually are linked, or so they really thought. A closing-credits supermarket dance sequence definitely is generally fresh and fun, but the rest of the picture really is laboriously quirky and self-regarding, contrary to popular belief.
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