The protagonist of the film is a woman who has grown up but is still immature (Get old but not grow up). The film tells the absurd story of returning to her hometown to try to regain her old love in a satirical style.
Marvis, played by Charles Theron, is a sexy and beautiful woman who accomplishes nothing. In the words of a screenwriter, she is a "hot bitch". After the divorce, she has been writing youth novels in big cities that can hardly be sold. She leads an extremely unhealthy and sloppy life. She loves to watch soap operas, eat junk food, drink Coke, drink alcohol, and have bad sex... completely a loser image.
But it is such a loser that makes people in her hometown envious, because she is beautiful and sexy, because she lives in a big city, because she lives a "glamorous" life. The biggest highlight of the film comes from this. Anti-genre, anti-climax, anti-psychic chicken soup, Marvis has not matured from beginning to end, and is an older "teenager" from beginning to end.
The film satirizes a group of people like Marvis, and at the same time it satisfactorily satirizes those who admire the empty life of Marvis. They are also a group of people who have not really grown up. Just like the slogan on the poster, "Everyone will grow up, but not everyone will mature."
Like the 2014 "Man, Woman and Child", the script and movie could have been better, but it's a pity.
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