Shirin,a twenty-something young woman, lives in Manhattan where she struggles to find acceptance in nearly every aspect of her life. Shirin is bi-sexual, and part of a loving family but being of Iranian descent, She is terrifed of being honest about her sexuality. To compound matters, Shirin has just gotten out of a long term relationship with Maxine, a woman that she was deeply in love with. A tad aimless due to her inability to live freely, instead of using her masters in Journalism, Shirin decides to teach a moviemaking class to a bunch of energetic six-year-old. Overloaded by the pressure of trying to be someone she is not around her loved ones, Shirin embarks on mini-rebellion, which eventurally leads to personal triump. Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behavior is a film about coming up, capturing the importance of never needing to hide who you are a persion. Shirin is a woman dealing with the difficulty of just ending a long term relationship and Appropriate Behavior is emotionally effective but the real strength of the film is how Shirin struggles as an individual. She is truly in a fight over her sexual identity, almost subconsciously fighting her true self out of neccessity from whats been engrained into her over the year from family and society. The editing and narrative structure are impressive, almost being intentionally vague when it comes to linear timeline about past and present with seamless transitions that form a cohesive whole. It's also appropriate to potentially recognize a three-way threat in Desiree Akhavan, whose acting shows an impressive amount of range and charisma, as long as a what feels like a personal story. Well-acted and written, Appropriate Behavior a funny and poigant film that feels like a geniune portrait of a woman struggling to be free.
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