7 Chinese Brothers (2015)

Jason Schwartzman plays a guy just drifting through life. He lives in a crappy house with his dog (played, I believe, by Schwatrzman's actual dog, Arrow.) His nights are filled with drinking at home. Fired from his job as a waiter at a crappy Mexican restaurant for stealing, he applies at an oil change place because he thinks the manager is cute, though he's incapable of expressing that other than by playing the clown. His visits to his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) in the senior living community are as much to buy pills from his friend who works there.

I kept waiting for something to really start to happen. Things happen, but they don't really seem to move to any sort of conclusion or climax. Schwartzman keys the car of his boss at the restaurant after getting fired, and the boss and some annoying, waiter, chef, something, break into Schwartzman's house and pee all over his bathroom, only to flee when Schwartzman comes home. Then the annoying guy comes back alone later, and when Schwartzman admits he keyed the car, punches him. Why come back and do that later, after you wrote unflattering comments on his photos his dog?

Why is there a scene of Schwartzman throwing his cap at a passing car, only for the guy to get out and argue with him about it and complain this has ruined his friend group's plans to celebrate his graduating from vet school?

I think it's because Schwartzman is waiting for something to solve all his problems. The something being the death of his grandmother, who he assumes will leave her money to him, her only surviving relative. The jobs are just his way of killing time until his ceases to need to worry about money and can, well that's the problem. It's unclear what, if anything, he wants to do. Which is related to the lack of any progress towards a climax, I have no idea what his character wants. To sit around and drink, I guess. Study whatever foreign language catches his fancy. Wait for the perfect woman to fall into his lap.

Everyone else in the movie is actively trying to do something, even if it's just their job, looking after kids, trying to form a connection when the opportunity presents itself. Living life, basically.

Schwartzman plays his character with the mixture of creepy and pathetic I associate with most of the characters I've seen him play. Due to my low tolerance or interest in cringe stuff, there were a few scenes of him making a fool of himself I just didn't want to watch.