Word: angstful
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...Rubies” should be required listening for all emo bands. A little exposure to Bejar’s elegant poetry might inspire them to stop writing painfully literal songs about unrequited love and teenage angst...
...aspect in her rebellion against her parents. This characterization fits well with the general image of the production. Tending towards adolescent melodramatics with lines like, “Be not so long to speak. I long to die,” Juliet could as easily be seen giving such angst ridden speeches wearing black eyeliner and hanging out at the local mall in modern times. The secondary characters are played to the hilt as well. Lady Capulet (Elizabeth Hess) is now an over-sexed, half-crazed shrieking harpy, Friar Laurence (Thomas Derrah) is physically menacing and the prince (John Campion...
...lovely. The yearning vocals, echoed by the frustrated backing band, give this experiment its best results. The narrator relates giving up on her dreams of being “the greatest” and the listener can’t help but sympathize. Crossing country-blues with Lillith Fair angst, it create a sound of which Joni Michell would be proud. It goes downhill from there. “Living Proof” sounds like Jessica Simpson singing Sarah Vaughn: alright, if you don’t listen too hard, but ultimately devoid of artistry. “Love...
...Malick’s latest endeavor is appropriate to the end of adolescence, from the characters’ introspective first-person voice-overs with their unabashed expression of idealism, to the casting of “heartthrob” Colin Farrell (“Alexander”) as the angst-ridden, yet hopeful, John Smith.The film’s themes also strike close to the preoccupations of people in their late teens and early twenties: Malick explores the vagaries of love, war and the indefinite attractiveness of Farrell in various states of scruff. Whether or not Malick?...
...What I have to say about that is when I made my first movies and I showed them in America in art houses, all my American reviews were about the same thing. They all said ?this Wim Wenders guy, his movies are about Angst, Alienation and America.? So I called myself a triple A director. (laughter...