Over the last week, I’ve seen an Oscar-winning documentary on Edward Snowden, a dinosaur sci-fi bonanza starring Adam Driver, an early ‘80s horror

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2023-03-24 08:00:06

Over the last week, I’ve seen an Oscar-winning documentary on Edward Snowden, a dinosaur sci-fi bonanza starring Adam Driver, an early ‘80s horror-comedy from Sam Raimi and quite a lot of basketball, and yet all of these pale in comparison to a TikTok from Sofia Coppola’s daughter.

Romy Mars is making mincemeat of the competition as she follows in her mother’s footsteps analyzing gender roles, women’s empowerment and entitled youth. Let’s just get to it.

I don’t know if this is peak nepo-baby content or an Andy Kaufman-esque routine, but either way … holy shit, this is good.

The blocking for the camera, the quick cut to her father’s Grammy (Thomas Mars of Phoenix FYI), a stellar character actor in Ari stealing a scene and a quote to cut to the core: “my parents are never home so these are my replacement parents.” There’s just so much tremendous content here. It’s bravura filmmaking at its finest.

The introduction to this whole thing make a vodka sauce pasta with me because I’m grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend is a line that a screenwriter would wait their entire life to write. It’s been echoing in my head ever since I saw the clip.