Meanwhile, Maureen has been making a spectacle of herself by flirting with the secretary in full view of the office windows. Oddly, the secretary seems to be enjoying this instead of calling security to have the creepy weirdo escorted out; we're apparently supposed to believe that Maureen is so irresistible that every woman she talks to turns into a lesbian. Sorry- we've seen and heard enough of her by this time to know that that's beyond impossible. In any case, Joanne is seething with jealousy and storms out. Maureen chases after her and seems confused that her girlfriend is upset about her carrying on with someone else right in front of her. To be fair, no one would ever mistake Maureen for a genius, and she's also never given Joanne any reason to suppose she'll be faithful. Maureen asks Joanne what she wants from her, and Joanne says that she wants commitment. Maureen blithely and casually agrees and theatrically gets down on her knees, giving Maureen one of her cheap, gaudy rings. A proper symbol for cheap, gaudy sentiment. Because she's an idiot, Joanne seems to take Maureen seriously and they embrace. As they do so, Mark looks on impotently; frankly, he should have realized that Maureen was a lesbian when she was attracted to a girly-man like him. Maybe they'll have him as a flower girl at their wedding. Speaking of which, we'll be forced to attend Joanne and Maureen's engagement party next and as you might expect, it's a revolting display of stupidity and inverse morality... in other words, business as usual for these jerks.
Well, we're over the hump now- not that the film gets any better, but we're over halfway through, so closer to being done with this cinematic travesty. It's now New Years' Eve, and our protagonists are celebrating. Mimi makes a resolution that she's going to quit the drugs and go back to school. Too bad all of them don't resolve to stop being dimwitted losers but that would require self awareness, so is a forlorn hope. They return to Roger and Mark's apartment after partying to find a padlock on the door. After being over a year in arrears with the rent, their landlord has finally locked them out. Are they chastened? Ashamed? Realizing that there are consequences for bad behaviour? Of course not- how dare we judge these victims of capitalism, expecting them to pay for things they are using. Instead, Angel- who is supposed to be the film's purveyor of sweetness and light- grabs a metal garbage can and smashes the lock with it repeatedly until it breaks and they can reenter the building. The movie depicts this vandalism and breaking & entering as the triumph of virtue over The Man. They are shocked to find, upon entering the apartment, that all their furniture has been repossessed. Good. Joanne who is, I remind you, purportedly a lawyer, stood by giggling as Angel illegally broke into the building. She now tells Mark and Roger that, since they've managed to get themselves back into the apartment, they're technically squatters and can't be forced out. Just when you thought these people couldn't sink any lower. Then, however, Joanne says something which suggests that at least one cylinder in her brain is occasionally firing: she tells Mark that he should accept the job offer from the television studio. Mark is shocked and immediately rejects the idea saying it would be selling out and betraying his art, or some such nonsense. Personally, I think he's just allergic to work. She keeps at him though, and he eventually agrees because he's also a weakling with no backbone. As if we needed further proof of this, Joanne offers to go along to his job interview and do all the talking- and he agrees. All the way to the interview, Mark keeps whining and trying to back out. Joanne and Maureen practically have to drag him there. Once at the studio, Joanne suggests that Maureen stay in reception because even she can see that having a deranged lunatic in the meeting would make an even worse impression than Mark will on his own. Besides, I'm not sure Maureen is paper trained. In the meeting, Mark sits morosely in his chair, pouting while Joanne and the supervisor holding the interview discuss his terms of employment. He is offered a generous remuneration- frankly, more than he's worth- and eventually lowers himself to accept the job when Joanne tells him to. Because this is fantasy land, the supervisor still wants to hire a grown man who brings his "mommy" to his job interview to hold his hand and talk to the scary adults. Meanwhile, Maureen has been making a spectacle of herself by flirting with the secretary in full view of the office windows. Oddly, the secretary seems to be enjoying this instead of calling security to have the creepy weirdo escorted out; we're apparently supposed to believe that Maureen is so irresistible that every woman she talks to turns into a lesbian. Sorry- we've seen and heard enough of her by this time to know that that's beyond impossible. In any case, Joanne is seething with jealousy and storms out. Maureen chases after her and seems confused that her girlfriend is upset about her carrying on with someone else right in front of her. To be fair, no one would ever mistake Maureen for a genius, and she's also never given Joanne any reason to suppose she'll be faithful. Maureen asks Joanne what she wants from her, and Joanne says that she wants commitment. Maureen blithely and casually agrees and theatrically gets down on her knees, giving Maureen one of her cheap, gaudy rings. A proper symbol for cheap, gaudy sentiment. Because she's an idiot, Joanne seems to take Maureen seriously and they embrace. As they do so, Mark looks on impotently; frankly, he should have realized that Maureen was a lesbian when she was attracted to a girly-man like him. Maybe they'll have him as a flower girl at their wedding. Speaking of which, we'll be forced to attend Joanne and Maureen's engagement party next and as you might expect, it's a revolting display of stupidity and inverse morality... in other words, business as usual for these jerks.
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