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For an item as goofy as the world’s largest rocking chair it is fitting that it was installed on April Fool’s Day, but it is so big that safety concerns became a deadly serious issue. Created in 2008, the World’s Largest Rocking Chair (official name and title) was built for the express purpose of breaking the Guinness World Record for large rocking chairs. The nearby Route 66 Fanning Outpost commissioned the massive piece of furniture as a roadside attraction in the grand American tradition. The chair stands over 42 feet tall and is crafted out of welded steel, emblazoned with the logo for the Outpost across the chair back. When it was first created, the giant rocker was actually able to sway back and forth as though it was just sitting on some Southern porch. While this was a requirement to achieve the world record, the behemoth was terrifying in motion and had to be securely welded to the ground. The World’s Largest Rocking Chair is not open for people to actually sit in save for one day a year, known obviously as “Picture on Rocker Day,” when a lift is hired to raise people up onto the seat.
In case anyone needed a refresher, Bryan Reisberg's Big Significant Things is here to make the rounds through yet another coming-of-age trajectory for an awkward white kid perched between adolescence and adulthood. This time the young man put through the trials of aging is the generically named New Jerseyite Craig Harrison (Harry Lloyd), about whom it's hard to remember much after the credits roll. He's a lanky brunette with a loose comb-over whose casually fitting, solid-colored wardrobe suggests he's perhaps funding the unexciting vacation that constitutes the narrative through a series of J.C. Penney modeling gigs. Craig has tentative plans with his girlfriend to move into a property in San Francisco (the current real-estate prices of which this film seems to have no concept), but before Big Significant Things begins, he's already ditched her for a soul-searching trip down south, and all we see are his day-to-day travels to unremarkable small towns, interrupted here and there by calls with his partner in which he keeps up a vague lie about a work trip.
In a cute play on the title, Craig takes various roadside pit stops at oversized tourist trifles, one of which—the World's Largest Rocking Chair, off Route 66 in Missouri—predictably and paradoxically takes on symbolic significance when Craig purchases a more functional duplicate model of said rocking chair with the intention of using it for his future home. From that point on, the chair sits on top of Craig's Volvo as a promise/harbinger of adult domesticity. The anodyne tastefulness of Bryan Reisberg’s film effectively lumps it into a big vat of likeminded Sundance-or-SXSW-endorsed offerings. Such elementary visual language, feeling like a vestige from Zach Braff's eye-rolling universe, anchors Reisberg's approach here (which also makes room for the standard-issue travel montage scored to folky indie pop). We're encouraged to consider the rooftop chair as a goofy but serious indication of Craig's self-denial, his failure to greet the tidal wave of adulthood with maturity and poise.
This gently critical perspective sits unevenly in Big Significant Things alongside the dubious proposal that Craig's story is big and significant after all, as well as the more insufferable idea that it's emblematic. When a possible romantic interest—an ethereal fish-out-of-water, Finn (Krista Kosonen), living with an exile's sense of discomfort somewhere in Mississippi—is introduced in the movie's second half, she's snapped at merely for having the gall of not giving him the time of day at a bar, though of course charmless Craig ultimately gets his kiss anyway. In the film's final movement, Kosonen's character is brushed aside and turned, like all the rural rubes the movie fleetingly considers, into a more or less disposable rung on the ladder to Craig's self-realization. On his drive back north, Craig calls into a relationship therapy line on the radio and regales a macho airwaves personality with the story of his trip, the psychology behind it, and his uncharacteristic act of infidelity.