American - Journalist | 1983 -
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.
Michelle Dean
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Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative.
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For a long time now, movie characters have generally been articulate, even chatty. Call it the influence of Woody Allen, but we have become used to characters who are well able to explain themselves to others.
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Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.
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There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.
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It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.
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There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.
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The children of the 1980s were the last before a lot of things changed. We were the last generation not to have cell phones, not to have video games, not to have parents who worried if we strayed from the yard.
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The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
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There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.
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The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.
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Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss?
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