The poster for Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera’s “Paper Heart” has been unveiled via Cinematical and its basically a sample of twee-looking stills from the happy-go-lucky, looking-for-love, quasi documentary.
The synopsis of the film is a giddy: wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee! wheeeeeeee! Ooooooh! fuuuuuuun! wheeeeee! tee hee!
Maybe it’s actually amusing, let’s hope so, but Vulture did call it a “holocaust of twee,” which is a pretty frightening prospect.
Directed by Nicholas Jasenovec, the film hits theaters in limited release via Overture pictures on August 7.
Having seen this film, I can say that it is not a holocaust of twee at all. The “real” subjects of the documentary are touching, and the relationship between Cera and Yi actually has more to say about the documentary process than anything else. If you were at all familiar with Charlyne and her work, you would realize all of this knee jerk “twee/hipster” stuff is way off the mark.
You can reserve judgment and defend Wild Things, but somehow not this?
Twee and hipster are not synonymous in the slightest. Where did people get that from? One is completely posing and aloof, the other is nakedly heart-on-sleeve.
I’ll admit. it was cheap, i don’t hate the film or the players, i’ve just run out of ways to discuss the film (and we’ve posted about it A LOT, so i’m sure it balances out).
Anon is also absolutely right about hipsters/twee, they’re in two different stratospheres.
Other ways to recognize a lazy, unimaginative scribe writing about Charlyne Yi’s “Paper Heart” poster or the film — considering the film looks much more like “Sherman’s March” than any of these tossed off signifiers — is their use of:
– “quirky” or “quirkfest
– “twee”
– “Wes Anderson-like”
– “‘Garden State’-ish
– “whimsical”
– “hipster film”
– “etc.”
Before:
It contains every imaginable twee-as-fuck indie rock song EXCEPT something from The Shins
After:
We were all set to start this post with a sheepish, self-deprecating dig at ourselves for all the shit we’ve given Marc Webb on this movie, “500 Days of Summer” but he totally beat us to it and with much more sage and cutting grace than we could ever muster. We’ve been humbled.
After being humbled: Blogs like this
What's wrong with being "twee" or quirky? And I like The Shins.