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Me and You

Erstwhile Portlander Miranda July's first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know is a charming, if slightly off-putting portrait of ten neighbors. Two characters are darling: First, July herself as a quirky performance artist pursuing an optimistic shoe salesman. Then there's the five year old attempting to hold his own in an adult chat room conversation, overcoming his fledgling typing skills by cutting and pasting snippets from the other person's message (sort of a juvenile Turing test, which is not surprisingly very effective).

In one scene, a little girl matter-of-factly asks a department store saleswoman whether a particular immersion blender will go out of style in twenty years.

Saleswoman: Twenty years is a long time. Everything will probably be digital by then.

Girl: Soup won't be digital.

Saleswoman: Why not?

Girl: Because it's liquid.

Oh, and then there's the ASCII art with both scatological and sociological interpretations. ))<>((