self esteem

Self Esteem: Jenny Slate 
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Written by Dean Fleischer-Camp & Jenny Slate & Gabe Liedman

"Is this water? I haven't had my dinner yet, so — Oh! Is this, is this — Yes that's him. That's him. Look at him! I really like how he kind of crosses his legs while he types at the desk? But doesn't really cross his legs? I think it's also really poetic how the light's kind of diffused in the dark and hits his face like that. He used to have this acne problem when I first met him but he's got it under control."

"I wonder what sort of... cleanser? Moisturizer? Facial product? I wonder what sort of facial product he uses."

"I don't know, I remember him telling me about this exfoliator, I don't know. But he was always like, 'You should try this peach stone scrub' and I'm like, OK! But I never really got the chance to find it at the store."

"I think he's come back from a run. I'm not being presumptuous, I'm just observing that he's really perspiring a lot. Maybe he—"

"He sweats a lot but it's very... cleansing? He's a very clean person. He's not really attractive, but he's clean."

"I'm OK with clean guys."

"And I bet he's read, like, all the books recommended by Modern Library. I can tell this from his weird glasses but also because he's kind of like sitting — not "sitting" sitting, but, like, half-sitting — on a copy of A Barthes Reader, like he's read them all and is very tired of the world."

"I think he's very tired of existing but he still does it because people need him and he has a generous heart. How old is he? 19? 20?"

"I forgot, but it's not important because he's, like, simultaneously young and old so he doesn't care about age, he just needs to dress right."

"Does he smoke? I mean, he sounds very artistic, it's quite intimidating, so I thought naturally he would be smoking, like, because he's tired of life. Like, because he needs to alienate people because that's the normal, natural thing to do if you're an artist, especially —"

"You know, I'm not sure if he does? But I don't think he does. Doesn't he look like Allen Ginsberg, or Fred Armisen? It's crazy because he's this weird Asian version of them, I'm not so sure. I need him."

"I need him too."

"We need him."

etc.