Me and You and Everyone We Know written, directed by and starring Miranda July is ranked 76th on Variety’s Top 100 Best Comedies, and it has a Metascore of 76, which means critics have appreciated it, though with 7.2 from the popular vote, we get that the public was less enthused…nevertheless, for the purposes of this corner, I would give it a higher score – this is the moment when I invite you to visit my blog and YouTube channel – as if anybody looks beyond the first line, if even there – where I have more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, plus just as many, or more, reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you decide to subscribe

 

Me and You and Everyone We Know written, directed by and starring Miranda July is ranked 76^th on Variety’s Top 100 Best Comedies, and it has a Metascore of 76, which means critics have appreciated it, though with 7.2 from the popular vote, we get that the public was less enthused…nevertheless, for the purposes of this corner, I would give it a higher score – this is the moment when I invite you to visit my blog and YouTube channel – as if anybody looks beyond the first line, if even there – where I have more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, plus just as many, or more, reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you decide to subscribe

 

 

8 out of 10

 

I have seen and enjoyed Kajillionaire https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/kajillionaire-by-miranda-july-8-out-of.html but the reason why I decided to watch Me and You and Everyone Else is because this was included on Variety’s Top 100 Best Comedies at 76, and I will try to see what I have missed

 

I would not place The Naked Gun at number one on my Top 100, but Some Like It Hot https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/some-like-it-hot-written-by-billy.html which is at number two on this Variety page is clearly in my Top 10 as well, indeed, I was talking about it the other day, at the jacuzzi

 

It was a rare occasion, for The Governor, Balurul and I met, the former is mostly gone at 8.15 in the morning, so his exceptional performances are cherished but mostly unavailable: I told him I should record his jokes, cynicism and post it on YouTube, so that others can benefit, but he is adamant, he will not do it

Even this short mention would not get his approval…he is also the Joshua (though I think this is the boxer who lost, a few days ago) of the gym, he says they will bury me there, because I come every day, except for weekends and official holidays, they will put me down at the reception, for the last farewell, and before the last rites

 

They will say that my widow will get 100k or so, and everyone will applaud, this being a sort of irony on account of my stinginess, I am a miser, and others will enjoy, another joke has me as the greeter at the club, hired by them because I talk to so many people, and then prevent them from exercising, which is the reason why they are there

So on Friday we were there, the three of us, and then this French woman comes to the jacuzzi, and I talk to her, and say that she is so ‘charmante, special, I wish I was not older than her’, words to that effect, which made my buddies laugh and protest, if I highlight my age, there will be no chance to get anywhere with anybody

 

Well, yes, but Tony Curtis takes this line with Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot and it works…now back to Me and You and Everyone We Know, John Hawkes has the other leading role of Richard Swersey, a separated father of two, the thespian has been fabulous in Winter’s Bone, which launched the career of Jennifer Lawrence, just as it made me see Hawkes for the first time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/note-on-winters-bone.html

There are crazy scenes in this comedy, which has tragic moments, Richard sets his hand on fire, then his elder son, Peter, who may be just twelve or so, has this sex scene with two other teenagers, girls who want him to rate their oral sex abilities- they come to his place, tell him what to do, from towels to pillows…

 

We do not see any intimate parts, but I thought this was strange, maybe daring, but to have those young people – well actors – pretend they have this coitus was a surprise – I am thinking of Bill Clinton, who said that his act with Monica Lewinsky was not sex – now he is in the newly released Epstein files, as a scapegoat, they want to hide the role played by their Orange Pervert, and thus they just throw out incomplete dossiers, making it look as if the opponents are to blame, and their would be king is so innocent, when the opposite is true, even his weird chief of staff has spoken on the matter recently, but the zone is floods with shit…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’