Me you and Everyone We Know

The movie "Me, You and Everyone We Know" shows us an ordinary people who connect and interact with each other through unanimated things. Miranda July shows us that people are trying to escape everyday routine by involving there life around objects. For example Christine is living a life she dreams about through her art, creating imaginary relationship that she wishes she had in real life. Same comes to Richard who compares a pair of shoes to the suffering of everyday life when he says “you think you deserve that pain, but you don’t”. More examples are found in the relationship between Robby and the women on the internet, where a little boy can say anything he wants and feel like a grown up man. Same comes to Sylvie’s treasure chest, Rebecca’s and Heathers involvement with an older man through messages on the window. Miranda July shows interactions of those characters through unanimated objects as their escape from reality. This movie shows that in our reality we need some kind of filters to help us to interact with one another.

Also there are many parallels and motifs in the movie which are very important to acknowledge. The scene when Christine is riding in the car with an old man watching last minutes of golden fish life. That shows representation of relationship between an old man and his girlfriend where he couldn’t do anything but be there with her in her last days of life. Yet the most important parallel in the movie is the scene with Richard holding a picture of a bird in his hands. Looking at the real bird sitting on the tree outside his window and the one in his hands there is a representation of Richard’s relationship being chained like the bird in a picture frame. In the end of the movie Christine helps him to let the bird free by placing it in the tree just like the real one. Which symbolizes Richard's chance to let go off his past and start a new relationship.