“this outfit just screams like “I’ve been in Ohio for 4 years, take me back to your dirty apartment and have sex with me?”

Tiny Furniture is a film like a number of low-budget independent cinema does nowadays, it finds a way to show us what a certain aspect of life may just be really like for someone while at the same time not really having a fully fledged plot that may take us from A to Z, but rather from A to D maybe. Here we follow the story of Aura after college and while the story of what she actually does is as interesting as watching a tree grow what intrigued me was what a lot of the happenings on screen implied about life as it is currently.

If there’s one thing we all love in cinema it’s a film all about “white people problems”. Yes this statement it itself is a lie, because these issues are really issues everyone faces but I’m pretty sure you are smart enough to get the true meaning of the phrase.

As I’ve said before, if a film can’t grab a wide audience, eg. the blockbusters, then it’s only recourse is to grab a niche one. Here’s a movie all about Aura (Lena Dunham) and her post collegiate experience coming back home.

If we pay attention to movies and pretend to assume that they give us any real mapping for how life is going then we will do nothing but underwhelm ourselves. Aura is discovering that the misanthrope of our generation is now one with that Bachelors and Masters degrees not knowing which direction to head in or which direction is even able to head in.

The feeling of returning home with no real sense of where you’re heading now is jarring to the system. After four to eight years of school, exams and being told that this is how you move forward in life, you return home expecting to be ready to be let loose in the “real world” and find it just as uninterestingly bland as you did before you left it.

Otherwise the film features a handful of really great scenes of Aura and her family interacting in a way that you would expect to see in a Noah Baumbach film where people will discuss some of the most frank topics amongst themselves and you can just revel in the idea of standing in the corner of the room hearing two people just be honest about themselves in a discussion that you would hardly hear about in any traditionally Hollywood produced film. The film also features a lot of scenes where too little happens for us to care, and for the ADHD society that will attempt to take in this film that might not be the best thing.

Rating: 6.0/10