The film could be read a couple ways but for me-a twenty-something Portlander matching Cloey’s penchant for dancing and drinking but lacking her bank account-the most loud-and-clear take-away is a pathetic story about class: Cloey’s got it easy and she puts it to waste. The problem with Scars To Your Beautiful is it pushes life advice akin to cultural relativismthis fallacious idea that all different people (or cultures) are inherently unique in a good and healthy way and, therefore, it is the world that is wrong and needs to change if it treats them unfairly. Looking for what’s holding her back from loving herself, Cloey pins the blame on her location. Shot all over Portland and with a soundtrack stacked with Northwest bands, City Baby holds up the idea of moving to New York as a symbol of restless locals finally getting ambitious in life. Thing is, I enjoy the male being the protagonist. There are a few, written by women, but all the ones written by men feature male protagonists (and a few of the ones written by women, too). The film follows Cloey and Paige as they toy with the idea of moving from Portland to New York and instead mostly just loiters around life judging people. I’m embarrassed to say there aren’t many books with female protagonists. Ah, the hard knock life of beautiful people problems.
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She’s got some spark in her, but she drinks too much, she eats shitty food, she’s mean to her friends, and doesn’t know how to use a dryer. “I feel like nobody likes me,” whines Cloey at one point. While they comfortably own an empowered sexuality as they navigate the romantic gray areas between boyfriends and hook-ups and flirtatious American Apparel photographers, Cloey and her best friend Paige (Jillian Leigh) are inarticulate about who they are, deriving their egos instead from male attention as they snipe at women and seek out sex to feel worthwhile. Read 27 from the story Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems // Larry Stylinson by spectrelarry (beta) with 1,562 reads. Like Frances Ha and Lena Dunham’s Girls, City Baby revolves around lonely, self-absorbed, urban twenty-something women struggling to figure out what they want in life. Cloey and her equally genetically blessed pals are the west coast chapter of a creative scene that passes their days with whiskey and texting and drives in cars paid for by parents, all too busy Instagramming to get anything done with their lives. It’s true-the world does offer plenty of opportunities to Cloey (played by Cora Benesh, who co-wrote the film with director David Morgan) but the sometimes-model rolls her eyes at all of them, preferring to drink PBR down by the river and feel sorry for herself.Ĭity Baby is a loving portrait of an obnoxious culture. “The world opens its arms to a pretty girl,” says the father of the lazy beautiful Cloey, the main character of dreamy new film City Baby.
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