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...praise to the acuity of the actors: the hilarious Church as a charmer who can intuit the flattering lies everyone wants to hear; Madsen with an intense, sexy intelligence; Giamatti radiating pain and fitful star quality. His Miles keeps hurting but keeps searching; this frustrated novelist isn't looking for a big publisher so much as for a loving reader. In Maya, whom he has disappointed in so many ways, he may have found one. Perhaps the depressive has found a reason to hope. What is hope, anyway, if not knocking one last time on the door of a beautiful...
This is the message that he stays on, the mission statement he pounds at like Jerry Maguire with films instead of football players. Ask Payne about pain and he ambles (“I sound like some ridiculous Woody Allen character,” he muses at one point). When it comes to humanity in film, he can’t stop answering the question...
...lowest tools available to the lazy critic, the sort of device that substitutes a feeble smile for real engagement with the work, in order to get it finished. And so it’s with a wince that any self-respecting writer can comment on the, well, pain running through the work of independent director Alexander Payne...
Mark says that for a sadomasochist, there is a difference between harm and hurt. Harm he tries to avoid at all costs; hurt, however, is good. “Pain and pleasure are not polar opposites to us. There’s painful pleasure; there’s pleasurable pain,” Mark says. “Pain to us is simply sensation that is very intense. Because it’s so intense, like a bright light, people normally might shy away from it. But people who enjoy that intensity will go towards...
...Pain, No Gain...