Helen Smith

You've got to poke fun at everyone.

But there's a lot of resentment, but it's complex resentment in that, you know, you still love your baby boomer parents, even though you're like, but your generation like crippled the whole housing market.

But there's still this kind of like...

I don't know, like a deep desire to kind of earn their respect and make them proud and kind of do all those things in growing up.

And so, yeah, it's a complicated resentment, which I think what made it so right for the film that it's not so straightforward as to kind of like pit one side against the other.

I mean, it's really just about this kind of mantra that the baby boomer father in the film kind of lives by, which is this hard work mentality, which is kind of a really kind of core capitalist ideal.

This understanding that we live, you know, from Richard the baby boomer's perspective, we live in a meritocracy and so hard work will be rewarded.

You put in effort and you'll kind of like reap the benefits.

And it's this clash where the millennial son is like, I followed your recipe, dad.

I did everything you told me to do.

And it just simply doesn't work.

So it's really that millennials coming to grips with the idea that the meritocracy just doesn't exist anymore and the recipe doesn't work.

Yeah, look, when I first started writing the film, like I kind of had a sense that things were bad.

And then when you actually like dig into the taxation policy, it was a bit horrifying actually in terms of like how lopsided things are and how the game is rigged in a lot of ways.

So yeah, it was shocking on that level.

And then the other thing that's really changed is

is that I started writing it in 2021.

And I think that the housing crisis has just kind of like gone on steroids since then.

Like it's got exponentially worse.

So almost like the Baby Boomer characters are portrayed as like, they're pretty harsh, really.