Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main characters' worlds together. Since the movie is told in three main sections, each from the experience of one or two people, several overlapping segments slowly but surely become apparent. Starting from the same supermarket scene that launched Ronna's story, Simon, trading shifts with Ronna, goes on a joy ride to Las Vegas with friends to experience the high stakes world of sleazy strip clubs, car chases and guns. His abandon is remarkable, and Askew comfortably plays up Simon's amorality and detachment from responsibility with wide-eyed innocence...
...main characters' worlds together. Since the movie is told in three main sections, each from the experience of one or two people, several overlapping segments slowly but surely become apparent. Starting from the same supermarket scene that launched Ronna's story, Simon, trading shifts with Ronna, goes on a joy ride to Las Vegas with friends to experience the high stakes world of sleazy strip clubs, car chases and guns. His abandon is remarkable, and Askew comfortably plays up Simon's amorality and detachment from responsibility with wide-eyed innocence...
...when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
...anticlimactic. Maybe even for the totally useless. What this magazine did for me is confirm my (seemingly common-sense) belief that regular, real people are far more interesting than stars. And not so long ago, you, Jane, as revealed through Sassy, held this view too. Part of the joy of your old magazine was that it applauded the idea that movie stars are a little more than pretty faces and talking heads, and that real people doing real things were a lot more worthy of our attentions. Isn't the fact that we get excited when a star says something...
...exploitative. Nas' rendering of this bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying Love is "now under God, we elope." And then there is a single gunshot. Nas takes no joy in his raps of woe; he's a reporter coolly relaying the madness of his world and the turmoil in his heart...