Fitting In and Friendship

Group Dynamics and Belonging

These films keep circling back to the same question: what do we owe the people we're stuck with, whether that's family, roommates, coworkers, or a found tribe of misfits? Over and over, the tenderness of belonging sits right beside its dangers—support systems that heal in Support the Girls or What We Do in the Shadows curdle into exploitation and betrayal in Proxy or The Fun House, while groups under real pressure (His Three Daughters, Homestead, Ladies of Steel) reveal both the fractures and the fierce loyalty holding people together. Even the lighter entries treat friendship and camaraderie as something earned through shared ritual, awkwardness, or crisis, not just given.

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