Dude, Where’s Your Car? Hollywood’s Contempt for We Who Don’t Drive

Ben Stiller’s character in Greenberg is “a needy and casually abusive schmuck, a socially awkward and obsessive crank. And if you need any more clues to the extent of his pathological loserdom, here’s one: He doesn’t drive. … Once we all buy into the idea that the car is freedom, not having a car reads as a form of clingy, needy dependency.”