I Am Not a Hipster (2013)
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Genre:Drama | Music
Plot: I Am Not a Hipster (2012) based in San Diego’s indie music and art scene, exploring what it means to be creative in the face of tragedy.
Stars: Dominic Bogart, Alvaro Orlando and Tammy Minoff
Release Date: 10 January 2013 (USA)
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January 17th, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Writer/Director Destin Daniel Cretton won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his short film Short Term 12. This year he’s back with an incredibly moving debut feature entitled I AM NOT A HIPSTER. This film is a quasi-musical with an existential core. Brook is a young singer/songwriter who has become a local legend in the San Diego indie scene after releasing his debut album. The problem is he wants nothing to do with it, becoming a well renowned artist was never part of his plan. For him music is essentially a means of therapy. Music is the channel though which Brook coups with the crisis he faces in his life, namely the death of his mother. He maintains himself isolated from most of his peers through his aggressive and egotistic attitude which pretty much guarantees to destroy his own career. Even his best friend Clark will end a phone call with a hilarious “I love you!” but Brook does not reciprocate.
Hope arrives in the form of Brooke’s three sisters. Their joyful and exuberant spirits are the remedy to his bitterness and apathy. Cretton does an excellent job at allowing for these characters to interact with effortless fluidity. It is through the interactions with his sisters that the audience can peel back on the layers of Brooke’s grief. The death of his mother and his sort of newly found fame leads Brook to question the very meaning of life and art. He spends his time looking at “Youtube” videos of the Tsunami in Japan, which lead him to tears. When one of his sisters asks what’s the matter he sobs and says: “I just realized how f*** lonely I am”. Brooke slowly begins to discover that the very thing he has isolated himself from is the very thing he needs; community. And it is through music that he begins to find redemption.