//Submarine at 10: A Legacy of White Male Insecurity Leveraged as Comedic Device

Submarine at 10: A Legacy of White Male Insecurity Leveraged as Comedic Device

The allure of indie coming-of-age movies is partially anchored in the room these films create for characters to be unabashedly offbeat, uncertain, particular. While there are memeable personality cults around pastel-clad, cigarette-smoking Andersonian characters and mumblecore films about well-off white twenty-somethings sorting themselves out in apartments they cannot afford, films