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...ethnic underclass, jobless and futureless, warehoused in sterile and isolated block housing, has been seething for decades. France has responded with willful blindness (even before this intifadeh, France was experiencing dozens of car arsons a night, but you did not hear about it because official France just accepted this as the norm) and pacification, creating a lavish welfare system to keep its angry youth well clad, well fed and well provided with cell phones...
...speak their hearts and minds freely. Maybe he should talk to the 12-year-old girl reportedly arrested a few years ago after she told her schoolteacher she was “Tibetan.” Wen may also be interested to hear young Tibetans’ thoughts on futureless lives—why are all the jobs in their country given to Chinese immigrants? Why do Chinese officials turn their backs on rampant prostitution? Moreover, why do Tibetan parents routinely spend their life savings to send five- and six-year-olds over the Himalayas alone on foot, facing capture...
...dysfunction. The story centers on Toby Oxman, (Paul Giamatti), a dejected shoe salesman who plans to make a documentary film about the underbelly of suburban high school, and the Livingstons, a middle-class Jewish-American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal homelife. And here is Solondz at his best, using vicious situations and dialogues to dissect...
Barich is still an interested, accurate observer, a brave striker-up of conversations with unpromising locals, but his goofy optimism is mostly gone. Part of it is perspective, of course; he and the other Haight-Ashbury kids were looked on by their elders as nihilistic and futureless a quarter-century ago. Now he's an elder, not quite a senior, but no longer a prankish sophomore...
nailed like illegible bronze on the futureless future...