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"The mistake lies in seeing debate and discussion as secondary to the recovery of meaning. Rather, we should see them as primary: art and literature do not exist to be understood or appreciated, but to be discussed and argued over, to function as a focus for social dialogue. The discourse of literary or art criticism is not to recover meaning, but to create and contest it. Our primal scene should not be the solitary figure in the dark of the cinema but the group of friends arguing afterwards in the pub."
-Don Fowler (1996) "Even Better Than The Real Thing"

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Everything Must Go


"Keep on the sunny side of life, it will help us every day it will brighten all the way if we'll keep on the sunny side of life." Will Ferrell deeps into the deep in this one. The sunny setting of Arizona suburbia seems to only enhance the depth. Ferrell does as well with pain as he does genuine humor. You root for him and shake your head at him. Which makes me think that the movie was pretty decent. You'll be thankful that Christopher Jordan Wallace (son of Notorious and Faith Evans) avoids a cliche role. He had a legit role and kept things cool. Was jacked to see Glenn Howerton (It's Always Sunny) and Michael Pena (Eastbound and Down). Well, actually, it had a really good cast, Stephen Root, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern - all decent. I'm going to say that you should see this one, I redboxed it. Is redbox going to be for real? (My only complaint so far, it took me four days to watch Harry Potter and Deathly Hallowseve and so had to pay for it day-by-day) What's the future of netflix? They are telling me I have to choose instant or DVD only or pay more - lame.

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