Word: squirming
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...third or fourth season. Films used to be about drastic change, TV about the status quo. Now both bestow on their characters a steady evolution. A lot like growing up. But do moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed to crave novelty but really want assurance. That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast...
...moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed to crave novelty but really want assurance. That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast-food franchise...
...have us believe? Moore himself has said that he sees his film as more op-ed than documentary. But in ways that a piece of opinion writing cannot, this movie takes traditional liberal complaints and makes them visceral and stunning. He makes us laugh, but mostly he makes us squirm...
Hrdy and Baldegg are modeling their magazine on Squirm, a journal of erotica put out by Vassar students since 1999. And for other inspiration, the students don't have far to look. A number of other elite colleges have got down and dirty...
Will Hugo carry out his suicide by cigarette? Is Bellatrix in fact his flesh and blood? Why does he insist on being such a jerkface? All compelling questions, but the real fun is watching Hugo squirm and rant like a crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness...