tv review
Enlightened
Laura Dern suffers a spectacularly public breakdown, decamps to a wellness retreat, and returns evangelically ‘healed’ and wholly insufferable, before slowly, against every expectation, becoming something genuine. Mike White’s cult classic on the ego smuggled inside self-improvement.
what it left me with
The desire to be better can itself curdle into vanity; genuine change is quieter, slower, and considerably less photogenic than the Instagram rendition.
this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.
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