It wasnt a bad movie, or even a bad telling of a story. It was just a bunch of mediocre parts coming together to be mediocre.
The script chose to portray an unlikable person, loosely tries to let her self narrate the nobility of her repeatedly and entirely unlikable actions and make it funny as she spirals a relatively meaningless existence into an ultimately meaningless action that ends up mostly unmemorable.
Better scripting would have helped a ton. The trying to be cute and dark to be funny mostly didnt work at all.
Better acting, though the writing really limits what we saw. They were all written as set pieces in a comment on society, So none of them were memorable. And any move that's worth watching must have at least 1 memorable performance, a scene you always remember.
Directing, yeah weve seen great ideas turned into bad movies over and over. And simple kids stories glue us to a screen. This was not well done enough to hurry back from the bathroom to finish it, much less remember a single line from.
Its not bad, but if they wanted too paint her as a forgotten hero, they did a bad job. It was a movie you didnt root for the hero, or wonder what would happen next, and when it ended with a quiet text epilogue. The only thought was, YEAH, THATS WHAT SHE WAS THATS WHAT SHE DESERVES.
The focal point of any story deserves the audience to feel more emotive than that. Just, a relatively forgettable film that always had you wondering WHY DONT I CARE MORE, THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF?
