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12 Feb 2010

Don't go in there 5: Bland land



All main characters in the vast variety of movies are incredibly bland 18-40 year old white Americans, none of whom come close to being as old or young as they're supposed to be. All of them seem to have jobs they dislike, but care about in some vague way. They never really grow, they just pile up a few lessons. If they're men, they care about sports, if they're women they care about their horrible love lives, bu they tend to have no interests or personalities beyond the most average the writers could think of. There's a good reason for this. The audience is supposed to identify with them. But none of these people even resemble an actual human being anymore. Sometimes it feels like their whole lives revolve around learning how to be a real person from the collection of more realistic oddballs who surround them.

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