Films and TV shows that feel like Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers
A devastatingly witty yet deeply raw processing of emotional abuse, lingering attachment, and the lingering nausea of a toxic past relationship.
- Lady Bird (2017): It shares the same specific bittersweet sting of navigating messy youth, difficult romantic power dynamics, and hometown departure.
- Normal People (2020): Captures the excruciating loop of loving someone who simultaneously damages your self-esteem and anchors your world.
- Fleabag (2016): Mirrors the song's coping mechanism of using dark humor and sarcasm as a shield against deep emotional humiliation.
- The Worst Person in the World (2021): Reflects the dizzying, often messy navigation of messy twenties romances and the desire to reinvent oneself after heartbreak.
- Eighth Grade (2018): Taps into the agonizing vulnerability of desperately wanting to be liked while feeling completely exposed and awkward.
- Blue Valentine (2010): Explores the painful unraveling of affection and the lingering ghost of a relationship that went sour.
- Before Sunset (2004): Embodies the heavy emotional weight of reuniting with someone from your past who irrevocably changed your life.
- Frances Ha (2013): Matches the transient, slightly lost feeling of young adulthood spent moving between temporary apartments and complicated friendships.
