Life lessons c/o the movie theater!

Post Grad Synopsis (from imdb.com): Eternal optimist Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has the most brutal of wake-up calls when she graduates from college and can't find a job, forcing her back home to live with her oddball family. Frustrated and confused about how her life is supposed to turn out, she soon realizes that her longtime platonic best friend (Zach Gilford) is the only one who makes everything in her crazy life make sense.

Check out that cast too! Brilliant, and it was evident in the movie. It wasn't earth shattering filmmaking, but like any proper indie film, if you learn to love the characters you'll love the movie. Oh yes, I said indie film. It only LOOKS mainstream, but it's definitely indie.

Anyways, I just got home from watching this movie with friend Karla and brother Francis. I was only interested in it because I love Alexis Bledel and I miss Gilmore Girls but this struck a serious personal chord and is going down in history as a timeless favorite. For sure.

Normally upon finishing a movie, I'm in a terrible mood because I become terribly depressed about the fact that my life will never be like that. With this film, it was surprisingly not so. By shamelessly projecting myself onto Alexis Bledel's character, I felt incredibly empowered. There are serious parrallels about her life path and not just the "oh this is generic and could be for anyone" type of parallels, it's more like the "I can see myself in that same exact position at 22 going after a similar job with the same type of people in my life and reacting the same way and etc. etc. etc."

In some ways it's terrifying because I think MY plan could verily fall apart like hers did, because in life things don't really turn out exactly the way you plan. But her end turns out the way it's supposed to and I learned a lot about the possibilities of my future. I felt super hopeful.

What I Learned from the movie Post Grad (semi-spoilers):

• I'm going to graduate from college with the idea of my perfect job and my perfect life and I'm going to do everything I can in order to chase it and make it happen.
• I would never ditch a night with my friend to spend it with an alluring thirtysomething hipster. Especially if my best friend was playing his first show. TRUE I'm flaky like that, but she did not want to be a music journalist. Friends come first, and if I ever forget that and that fails, music comes first.
• It's totally possible for me to get that dream job, as long as in the process I put some blinders on and step on every cute boy on the way there.
  

I swear I'm going to buy this movie as soon as it's released and then watch it for self-motivation when I'm in college.