A Movie Review: Greenberg

Greenberg. I did not like this movie at all. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) had few redeeming qualities. He was abusive to his friends. He was abusive to his girlfriend, Florence, (Greta Gerwig) – if she really was his girlfriend. I’m not even sure what she found attractive in him. In the movie, she said it was because he wanted to do nothing. Maybe that is intriguing, but he was also a cruel person. I was totally with Florence’s girlfriend who questioned why she was in such a relationship. I suppose one could argue that this is a great movie, because it realistically looks at a person who is really messed up emotionally. I argue it isn’t, because someone so messed up would be totally abandoned by his friends.