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...gets seamless ensemble work from the year's most agreeable, most cannily chosen cast. These, after all, are not-quite stars playing not-quite supermen. They grow in the roles as they grow comfortable in them. By the end they have cobbled together an A-minus comedy about B-plus people. Every other action picture is about the impossibly outsize Them; this one is about the just barely heroic Us. It's about making the best of your small talents--about looking in the mirror and, despite all evidence to the contrary, smiling back...
...comes to playing dress-up and Jean explains that "adults are more into period clothes, playboy bunnies, regular stuff, monkeys--y'know, with the organ grinder." Either costumes for adults are overly involved--incorporating rented masks, wigs and clothing--or terribly boring (e.g. "I'm going as myself."). Kid Supermen and Jasmines concur: "time to give it up, grownups...
...classes that we are, plus two more, plus holding down a job--and, of course, she's getting married next week. Or the guy who's finishing up his thesis while directing a play and running his own nonprofit organization-and occasionally lobbying on Capitol Hill. They are the Supermen and Wonderwomen. We can't be jealous of them, because they're always so pleasant. Publicly, we say they're "amazing." Privately, we show the article to our roommates and tell each other that these people must be psychotic. But secretly, we look at our own schedules and think, "What...
...criticizing the Supermen and Wonderwomen for their choices. Nor do I believe that students avoid taking advantage of the resources the College offers. All I'm saying is that those of us who enjoy playing "Doom" shouldn't feel like sinners. If you aren't the kind of person who loves a particular activity enough to dedicate large chunks of your time to it, then trying to follow the Superman model can be a super-efficient way to make yourself miserable--if not from spending too much time on something you don't like, then from feeling guilty and inadequate...
Romance us, wine us, dine us, and be remembered by future Harvardians as the era of Supermen...