This Elijah Wood Crime Drama Is Criminally Underrated

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A crime drama like no other, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a hilarious meditation on society and the a-holes in it. Written and directed by Green Room actor Macon Blair in his directorial debut, it follows timid nurse Ruth (Melanie Lynskey), who has pretty much had it with the world. The movie begins with Ruth on her way to work at a second-rate hospital; sitting in traffic, she sighs as the vehicle in front of her revs its engine, pumping black fumes from its exhaust. At work, a BLM protest is playing on the TV in the room of a dying patient who is a raging racist: her parting words are a rant on Black Americans.

As this happens, Ruth is standing in front of a pain management scale. If she was a six before (moderate pain), she is a ten by the time the day is over. As Jason Newman's «Go Away (To Paradise)» continues to play in the background, Ruth's torture continues outside of work: in the car park, where an impatient driver won't let her pass; in the grocery store, where people behave selfishly; in the bar, where a man (Blair) ruins the book she's reading; and at home, where someone let their dog crap on her front yard (ironically, right in front of her handmade no-poop sign).

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The final straw for Ruth, however, is discovering she has been robbed. And worst still, finding out that among her laptop and other expensive possessions, they stole her late grandmother's silver spoon. When the cops refuse to help Ruth — going so far as to blame Ruth herself for leaving her door unlocked — she takes matters into her own hands, and that is where Elijah Wood's Tony comes into it.

Audiences are first introduced to Tony as Ruth's oddball neighbour who