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Work: Doesn’t Need To Be Fun, Should Ideally Have Some Purpose
I don’t have cable and my rabbit ears suck ass, so I wasn’t able to watch the Oscars live last night. I hopped on every now and again and watched some hastily-uploaded YouTube clips, proving conclusively that I’m a digital native, and I monitored Twitter to see who the big winners were and any good acceptance speeches and nip slips and all that. (Proving that I’m a perverse digital native.) Instead of watching it, I watched the ScarJo movie Lucy, about a woman who eventually uses 100 percent of her brain (it’s odd and mostly terrible, but some parts are good), and then the 2014 movie Two-Night Stand, where Miles Teller and the babysitter from that Steve Carrell movie (and the girl from Manhattan Love Story, which got cancelled after about 2 episodes) have sex twice, then hilarity ensues.
Before I get into the actual point here, let me say that Miles Teller is definitely going to become the next Leo DiCaprio, because he has that mix of “can do the swaggy guy thing” and “can seriously act.”
There are two distinct sequences in this film where Teller’s character talks about how ridiculous work is. In the first sequence, he says something like “Work isn’t supposed to be fun.” (That’s the essential…
