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Millennial Meltdown
Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/19/2019
As a now middle-age man, I'm about as fed up with the millennial culture as everyone else that's, you know, not a millennial. Tone-Deaf is a dark comedy that takes aim at this particular set of people, perfectly personified by Amanda Crew as Olive. On the counter-side, we have Robert Patrick as your typical crotchety old man - think Grandpa Simpson, but with a newfound homicidal vendetta. While the film has some weird beats (like Patrick's rando dream sequences and fourth-wall breaking rants), it also is a fine critique of why the younger generation is such an easy target to hate on.
Olive (Crew) hits all the high notes for a millennial - questionable relationships, crushing student debt, lack of anything resembling a drive and a receives a healthy dose of false praise from everyone …
