Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when the phenomenon of self-mutilation is beginning to be noticed. On Tuesday night, October 27, there was a special segment documenting two years in the life of a self-mutilator on Dateline NBC. During the segment, they repeatedly referred to the phenomenon as "the anorexia of the '90s." In 1997, self-mutilation was also the topic of a cover story in The New York Times Magazine...
...self-mutilation is the "addiction of the '90s" as Strong claims, then chances are it will be showing up in even the most secure of households. Until someone figures out why, people will continue to cut the pain away...
...known that whatever its message, the movie bubbles over with felicities. The actors, once they get over their early overplaying, are uniformly splendid. Ross gets plenty of smart fun from the collision of '50s and '90s: a "healthy" breakfast loaded with pork products, a mother-daughter sex talk in which Muffin explains the facts of life to Mom. Carpeting the film is Randy Newman's richest score, tremulous and true to the period; those yearning violins express an ache the Pleasantvillagers don't yet know they have...
...insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like a scarlet letter. And the town burghers, still cocooned in monochrome propriety, are perplexed, vexed, vengeful...
...than a '50s one; it has the didacticism and sentimentality of the serious Hollywood product of that earlier time. That one and this. Stretching credulity but never hedging a bet, Ross wants universal acceptance for his film, so he finally makes the town so endearing that one of the '90s kids decides to stay there. (Gee, wait till Mom finds out!) He hopes you will too. That's the difference between today's best Hollywood filmmakers and the top independent auteurs. Todd Solondz and Hal Hartley don't care if you like, or even get, Happiness or Henry Fool. Ross...