does it only seem to me, that people around me nowadays feel overchallenged at work, that much to think about quitting the job only to have an easier life? these people include me. often it's the courage to hold us back from actually doing it. we sometimes don't even have the guts to tell anybody about our "adventurous ambitions", perhaps because we don't want to be confronted with reactions like "how are you going to earn money? how are you going to survive? just accept it. that's life. you cannot change that". those reactions seem dumb for some like us but justified and painfully true at the same time. or maybe "it's a weird age", the thirties, we're in right now, finding ourselves shortly before a midlife crisis, or more mildly said, at a crossroad.
greenberg is a character played by ben stiller in the same-called movie. he just does nothing. he doesn't keep up friendship, he doesn't even work. and to a certain level he doesn't care about what others think about his current attitude. in a success-driven society this has a kind of relaxing affect on people who wish to break out of social restraints.
if building a dog house already seems like a good amount of effort to you, you might like the movie of the day. it's the movie directed by noah baumbach, written by jennifer jason leigh and noah baumbach, premiering at the berlinale tonight:
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