Tag Archives: Jason Reitman  Movie Review: Young Adult*.  Young
Adult is like Black Swan for writers,” my housemate Eddie told
me when I expressed interest in the film. And, after seeing it,
I have to agree.  Black Swan was rife with metaphors, and so is
Young Adult. Take, for example, the fact that emotionally
stunted, alcoholic woman-child Mavis Gary says to her newly
acquired drinking buddy Matt, who was beaten to a bloody pulp
for being gay (he’s actually not, as an awkward, drunken
encounter between he and Mavis will attest) when they were in
high school together, that she wishes he would stop leaning on
his crutch. Matt was rendered a cripple in the attack, so he
kinda has to lean on his crutch, but she means it as a metaphor
for his feeling sorry for himself and refusing to live his life.
Matt congratulates her on her way with words and asks her if
she’s used that line in her Waverly Prep novels.  Mavis is one
to talk, though. The movie opens with her chugging Diet Coke,
gorging on ice cream, napping d