Film | The Guardian: Hollywood has never been kind to its young. It is an industry that famously venerates youth and, infamously, has casually destroyed so many young people, used them up then discarded them, that to list them all would fill this entire article. The film business loves to look at young people, but has less than zero interest in looking after them. Some are destroyed over a long period, such as Judy Garland, some barely have time to draw breath, such as River Phoenix. And then are the other less sensational but no less instructive stories of the young people whose hopes were raised by the industry, but find themselves whimsically discarded.
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It's funny to me that so many successful movies are about misfits learning to fit in, awkward people being accepted despite their awkwardness (every Michael Cera movie). But even though everyone loves these stories, this article shows that the movie industry doesn't believe in what they preach. Birch is clearly an intelligent, talented young woman who doesn't quite fit in. She would've made a wonderful protagonist in movie-about-strange-girl-accepting-herself-and-growing-into-womanhood, but in the reality of the movie industry she didn't fit the personality that they were looking for.
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