![]() ![]() If anything, I regret not having met Alex sooner. But that isn’t an option for me because I need a man with a historical perspective that encompasses my whole lifetime. More and more women my age have given up on our men and are getting together with millennials, youngsters raised by women who were born in the sixties, rather than the forties. Which oddly enough makes the lasting effects of the old video on her life all the more believable. This protagonist’s concerns couldn’t be more middle-class suburban. The interesting part lies in the way the dramatic reveal from the past bumps against what is an incredibly normal present. Again, nothing particular original there (though the oddball specifics of the film are classic Miranda July). And it shows how such a thing can have major implications years and years later. ![]() ![]() “The Metal Bowl” takes something extremely dramatic – maybe even scandalous – in the form of a porn film the protagonist did for money when she was a young woman. So it’s not an original thought here to praise this story for highlighting such an instance, but it still feels noteworthy. ![]() Probably half the stories we read for this website are about the way the past messes with the present. Taking a unique personal detail from the past and showing how it lingers in what is an otherwise very normal life for the protagonist ![]()
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