Word: moralizations
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Project Greenlight (Bravo, Thursdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) The moral of this Hollywood reality show, formerly on HBO, is that we get the movies we deserve. This year's victim--er, winner--John Gulager, is picked to shoot a horror flick by Dimension Films, only to be immediately undermined by paranoid executives. We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office...
...finish this very column in the cushy press box, complete with windows my fellow writers wouldn’t let me open, I ambled down to the field after the eventual Harvard victory and sought out maybe the only other person who might know how to resolve my moral dilemma...
...Moral crisis averted...
...goes beyond the bounds of Solondz’s past tales of suburban dystopia, as its narrative sets up, according to Solondz, “a structure of a Jewish liberal secular family and a conservative Christian one; those are such poles apart that to throw into relief the moral dimensions of some of these convictions that we stand by and what it really means...
...Because of course, what happens is the audience all become martyrs,” he explains. “I respect him so much and yet, the idea that we’re all martyrs for the good fight, that’s no examination of the moral nature of any of this...