I’ve written today about how I have零寒意, especially during TIFF. I’m genuinely not trying to humblebrag here, but I am so moved by TIFF and the festival and the buzz that I try to follow it as best I can. These movies (can) help define the cultural zeitgeist, and if you find a good one, it can change your whole day and then some. So I stack my day with as many screenings as I can fit in. This morning, I chose to see独角兽商店at 8:30am in the morning, after finishing work last night turning around notes onThe Disaster ArtistMidnight Madness red carpet at around 1:30am. But since my junket interviews forThe Florida Projectwere at the same time as the screening of独角兽商店而且我有一张票（还有我原本应该生产的红地毯），没有什么让我尽快看不到那部电影了。这不仅是因为我爱和欣赏Brie Larson(and loved speaking to her last year about免费火一年之后,她在TIFF人民选择奖获奖房间，这也赢得了加拿大屏幕最佳图片奖，以及和和），还因为Tiff Execs如何谈论这部电影。TIFF背后的力量团队Cameron Bailey都告诉我，在各种eTalk采访之前或之后，都告诉我，这部电影不睡觉，或者不认为这是一个虚荣的项目。他们一直在继续谈论富有想象力，发明和不同的情况，并“拥有自己”。如此闪闪发光或许多人会假设……。幼稚。但这就是重点，这就是一种真实的声音Tiff试图通过#ShareHerjourney竞选活动来培养。电影的共同领导者Mamoudou Athie是今年的Tiff Rising Star。这个组织正在支持她。他们正在展示自己的工作并投资布里股票。

So, I had a fire lit under me (a Free Fire? too far?) to do what I needed to do to get there for 8:30…ish.

I don’t think Brie Larson gets enough respect for everything she’s done in her career.她。是。27。She, like my other ALL-CAPS favourite Jessica Chastain, appears to be quite candid about her professional choices, her beliefs and her personal life on social media. They both make commercial and passionate choices, and take their careers into their own hands. Jessica has her production company, and Brie is very active in the film community (and on film Twitter). Oh, and she’s Captain Marvel, in blockbusters like孔：头骨岛(which I still haven’t seen, oops) but still takes the time to direct something, and it’s the first project she’s ever produced. Plus there’s the teen popstar career, and throwback pics to her child star days which come with a real sense of humour and self-awareness.

I like her. I do. But beyond my fangirling, this movie is actually really interesting. It has a voice. It shows Brie’s work as a child star. Brie was in both13 Going on 30（作为六只小鸡 - 来吧）和United States of Tara.This honestly feels like a cross between the two. It’s completely fearless, and SO confident. She didn’t write the script, but she certainly knew how to bring it to life.独角兽商店is weird and funny, about a woman named Kit who is afraid of growing up. She is working temp jobs and living with her parents and trying to impress everybody. She, like many of us, believes that work is “performance.” But secretly ….she just wants a Unicorn, something she knows is ridiculous but she just can't help herself. Her imagination compels her to dream and make her own choices, though it also results in her compromising her personal relationships. This character has ZERO CHILL, just like me. She wants to be a grown up but doesn't want to grow up and has major imposter syndrome.

独角兽商店reminded me ofUnited States of Tara.It reminded me of the dance at the end ofLittle Miss Sunshine.只是没有给出F-CK。很像13 Going on 30(which, full disclosure, I had a13 Going on 30themed birthday party earlier this summer), the climax involves a huge pitch meeting with, yes, tons of glitter bombs. It’s a little on the nose in that the meeting is full of (mostly) white men and one woman of colour, but she’s trying to show how hard it can be to prove yourself to a room that is already not on your side. It’s a movie about trying and going for it. It’s hopeful, optimistic and positive.

剧透警报：有一次，她的妈妈（琼·库萨克（Joan Cusack））告诉她，“长大”的唯一真实方法就是失败了做自己喜欢的事情。我哭了，哭了。这可能是疲惫的，但是塞缪尔·杰克逊（Samuel L. Jackson）的脸（可能是受益？明星玛莎·马西萨克（Martha Macisaac），哈米什·林克莱特（Hamish Linklater），瑞安·汉森（Ryan Hansen），琼·库萨克（Joan Cusack），布拉德利·惠特福德（Bradley Whitford）等。

So, if it’s not obvious already, I loved it. After I left the screening, I just decided to tweet about the movie, not thinking anything would ever happen or anybody beyond my “followers.” Seriously not humblebragging here, but I posted this:

我虽然t the tweet didn’t go through because about a second after I hit send, my phone went black. I just got a new phone about a month ago, and thought it might be a glitch. I ignored it. Then I looked down and realized what happened. Brie had retweeted me WITHIN SECONDS and was the first person to like and retweet what I wrote. Then I had to go back to work and try to go on to the next thing, but I was shaking. Me, the queen of zero chill, got instantly acknowledged by somebody who just made a movie about how it’s ok to have zero chill. I couldn’t keep the sobs in, but I just tried to work through it. And now here we are.

I guess this is living your best life?