![I don’t know why I’m thinking this — I like Alexander Payne’s The Descendants [2011] very much, but I don’t think it’s the important film everybody’s harking it to be. It’s Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Director and Actor, for Pete’s sake! Sure, it’s an earnest and lovingly restrained melodrama, with great acting from George Clooney and especially Shailene Woodley who plays his headstrong teenage daughter, but it feels underwhelming to me somehow. No matter how hard I try and no matter how charmed I am with everything else about it, I still couldn’t help but say, so what? Family tragedy and adultery meet real-estate moral wrangling in Hawaii, and somehow I couldn’t bring myself to care.
Maybe I’ve become a monster, and I have no more feelings.
Damn it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz8rq1WNpQ1qbbr9bo1_1280.png)
I don’t know why I’m thinking this — I like Alexander Payne’s The Descendants [2011] very much, but I don’t think it’s the important film everybody’s harking it to be. It’s Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Director and Actor, for Pete’s sake! Sure, it’s an earnest and lovingly restrained melodrama, with great acting from George Clooney and especially Shailene Woodley who plays his headstrong teenage daughter, but it feels underwhelming to me somehow. No matter how hard I try and no matter how charmed I am with everything else about it, I still couldn’t help but say, so what? Family tragedy and adultery meet real-estate moral wrangling in Hawaii, and somehow I couldn’t bring myself to care.
Maybe I’ve become a monster, and I have no more feelings.
Damn it.
All the fine little things according to Ian Rosales Casocot.
