Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a study in contradictions. She is a failed actress who left her long-term actor boyfriend John (Chris Evans), over his lack of finances. Years later; Lucy is a top broker for a high-end matchmaking service and is about to celebrate the 9th match that results in marriage.
During the wedding, she runs into John, who is working for a catering company, while he waits for his upcoming play to enter rehearsals.
At the wedding, Lucy meets Harry (Pedro Pascal), who is a wealthy financier and brother of the groom. The two begin dating even though Lucy wants him as a client and insists that she is not an ideal girl to date for a Unicorn such as him.
Regardless, they begin a relationship, and soon Lucy finds herself in a complicated situation at work that brings her entire career into question. Faced with her friend John and her relationship with Harry, life becomes very complicated fast.
“Materialists” is a study of love and reality in the big city. The movie is set in New York, and many of Lucy’s clients are very shallow. While they are fixated on finding love, the laundry list of requirements, such as income, height, weight, age, hairline, etc., shows just how shallow and unrealistic people are as many good options are dismissed for not checking all the boxes.
Lucy herself is fixated on upper income individuals despite her humble upbringing and this is what ended her relationship with John as he has no money and balks about the inflated parking rates in New York.
The movie is slow in places, but it shows how people often sabotage a good thing as they look to find fault in seemingly ideal situations and look for any excuse while complaining about not being able to find love.
Johnson, Evans, and Pascal do solid work and despite some pacing issues, Writer/Director Celine Song is not afraid to show the darker and unlikable traits of her main characters in the course of the story.
4 stars out of 5
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