Lauren Chen of Tenent Media (the Russian Influence Operation being investigated by the DOJ) does a cringe-inducing stand-up routine at some right-wing function and can't even wring a laugh out of the audience of RWNJs. Who would have thought that bashing homeless people and ranting about "feces on the street" wouldn't get a laugh?
Even her zinger about needing a "final solution" to homelessness didn't get much of a laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeIOfyjjfi8
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Anderson never gets the pieces of 'Asteroid City' working together as well as normal for him.
Full ★★ #review on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/57gnXZ
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This feels stiffer, more artificial than normal for Anderson pictures. And it’s not the framing device doing it. It might be that the covid restriction made it harder for some actors to connect to each other since that be the best way to describe the problem. Schwartzman and Johansson, for example, don’t seem to be entirely there which is an issue since they are supposed to be carrying the poorly conceived romance plot. The film as a whole doesn’t feel well thought out, that there are a lot of ideas but not enough attention was devoted to developing them, or