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...whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka was one of my predecessors.”When his wife Joan (Laura Linney) embarks on a literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed and worsen until they precipitate divorce.The emotional fallout from this decision, particularly for the couple’s sons Walt and Frank (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline respectively), is devastating. The film’s tagline—“Joint custody...
Maggie also changes, though her shift is less convincing. She receives, as if from the screenwriting gods, a latent analytic mastery of poetry, but she remains the carefree and floozy younger sister; her mischievous glances towards Rose’s fiancé leave us skeptical of how much she has actually learned by film’s end. Diaz nonetheless has fun in her typecast role as the blonde bombshell, and we have fun with her as she exposes her grandmother’s friends to “Sex and the City” and bungles a dog-washing...
...certain extent, this phenomenon of enhanced performance under pressure is inherent to human nature. Physiologically, the body has evolved to switch on a reserved crisis mode, or “fight-or-flight” response, in times of stress. Culturally, it is common to hear of latent potential being uncovered in the wake of challenge and adversity, capabilities not even close to being fully realized until they are tested. In ordinary contexts—taking a difficult exam, for instance, or running in a competitive race—self-discovery is a positive thing. In the context of government...
This is reflected in the store’s clerk-client relationship, in which a surly, Boston-tinged hipster indifference might mask latent friendliness...
...issues stick to the very personal. “Preparedness” tells the absurd story of a gun-totin’ American president who issues a false alarm of mutual assured destruction (MAD) and is horrified to see citizens doing anything but taking cover, instead fulfilling their long-latent fantasies. The story catalogs beautiful glimpses of life in an Edenic state of anticipated death, recurring with each subsequent government MAD “fire drill.” But the scenes of the president are too ridiculous to operate as sharp satire; the character is too goofy...