threads of interest

In Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America, main character Tracy (played by the magnificent Lola Kirke) observes Brooke, a shamelessly yet awkwardly charming woman of all trades played by Greta Gerwig, citing her demeanor as “Her beauty was that rare kind that made you want to look more like yourself, not like her.”

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Simone Weil, who noted “it is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves” and if awareness of self is the ultimate goal, one that precedes charm and ultimately informs it, then we must know it’s achieved in tandem with relentless, playful interaction with the real world