Word: suburbia
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...reaction to my self-doubt was to work twice as hard as I had ever worked in high school. And I did for a while. But it was damn tiring and more boring than suburbia had ever been. It is ironic, I guess, that it never occurred to me my good grades were an indication I wasn't a "mistake" after...
...Maybe suburbia is a genteel sham, or maybe not. Adherence to 12-step programs could be, as someone says here, "just another form of addiction." The Wrenwood patients could be searchers or fools, the staff fakers or dupes-or healers. The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach is that he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing, as seductive as the sherbety decor of Carol's home, as mysterious as the illness that seizes her. It will also seize any viewer who dares to surrender to its spell. Feel free to laugh or scream...
...confident movie about a suburban wife (Julianne Moore) who is "allergic to the 20th century." "Safe" tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at a "chemical-free zone in New Mexico." Moore's beautifully acted performance gives the director the vessel to present his questions about suburbia, the environment and 12-step programs. "The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach," says Corliss, is that "he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing...
Wilson says he identifies with suburbia, and he rhapsodizes about the warmth of his middle-class upbringing outside St. Louis. He still worships his father, who was an adman. "I think the best thing about this country," he says, "is that it has always in the best times supplied hope and opportunity and encouraged the plausible belief that by working hard you could improve life for yourself and your family...
...point during a conversation, a pause ensues as the actors look deeply introspective. A voice over says, "You are now witnessing a Pinteresque pause. If this were a Pinter play, there would be a lot of these." There are also "commercials" during the play spoofing consumerism and suburbia...