Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the tragic Colorado shootings two weeks ago, the mini-industry of TV pundits and editorial page prognosticators that came to fame in the Era of Monica have resurfaced--tanned, rested and ready to dispense supposedly penetrating analysis at a moment's notice. The cast of opinionated characters has changed a bit--fewer former federal prosecutors, more child psychologists--but the goal is still the same: to take the few known facts of the case and fill air time and op-ed space by speculating, ruminating and suggesting reasons for the tragedy...
...with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary insanity that in America is rendered even crazier by all of the above...
...basic story is the same, the house is definitely better with age. There are warping walls and crushable staircases, and that's just for starters. Hill House has been referred to as another one of the lead characters, and it will definitely demand attention in its own right. The cast is supposed to be an almost perfect fit with their characters--Lili Taylor as the tormented young Eleanor gives an eerily skillful performance...
...Buzz As far as the general public is concerned, I would guess this film will not receive an enthusiastic reception. However, with its strong cast, critics may be a little more impressed...
What to Look For Full to the brim with gratuitous violence, this bleak portrayal of the souls within the men of today seems grim and hopeless. Instead of being disturbed by the grotesque and twisted idea of fight clubs, society desperately grasps onto it with enthusiasm. As for the cast, Pitt and Norton both have strong experience with dark, disturbing films (Seven and American History X respectively), and Fincher has proven his original directing abilities in movies such as Seven and The Game...