Subject: Re: American Beauty
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 08:37:23 EST
In a message dated 2/21/00 2:53:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
rbowman@indigo.ie writes:
<< This, they tell me, is a collection of transatlantic cliches
- the compulsive, Mary Tyler Moore-type wife,
the 'wise child', the sad middle-ager who establishes
his integrity by confessing to shower wanking -
assembled by a smart ass, luvvie Englishman (Sam Mendes)
with neither sympathy nor understanding of his subject. >>
Nah, that's not quite accurate. The compulsive wife was light years from
Mary Tyler Moore, who was always pretty self directed. This girl is a
nutcase. When you do rent the video, please identify the neurosis for me :)
The sad middle ager didn't establish his integrity by that particular
confession, but by not sleeping with the young girl. The daughter wasn't so
wise as bitchy, but her boyfriend served as a real guru type, without
actually saying much. Or intending to. I didn't feel it was terribly
cliched, but then I haven't so much studied American culture as lived in it :)
That's probably MY problem :)
Jim
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