Winona Ryder does an outstanding job portraying a typical person of today. She is an outstanding college graduate who gets out of the classical schooling system and then realizes that in today's world hope is becoming a very difficult thing to find. The current belief which pervades our social mainstream consciousness is that doing well in school leads to a good job, a nice home, and all the good things that go along with life. As many of us now realize, that is not how things work. The movie really portrays life well in it's representation of our thirty second culture.
Significance is no longer a pertinent aspect of our being.
The only gripe I had with this movie is the ending. It was just a bit to good as far as I was concerned. Reality bites and that's how it should have ended. One word of warning though, don't leave when the credits start rolling cause they get one more good jab in at our society. Another movie from back in the summer was The Fugitive .