Why a Real-Life Matchmaker Thought Materialists Was Satire
Alexandru Orian
She’s making her list and checking it twice. Photo: A24/Everett Collection In Materialists , Dakota Johnson’s Lucy, a young matchmaker, argues that romance is a numbers game. She’s more of an actuary than a romantic — at least at first. What makes a good match is the central question of the film, and the nuances of the answer are more complicated and messy than Lucy might have once expected. Part of what makes Materialists so intriguing is its relation to matchmaking itself: In a dating
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