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...fact that he operates under the stately trees of Chicago's wealthy North Shore, or that he is only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with repeat customers," he explains. "With me, these kids can walk out of school and get good quality at good prices--$35 for an eighth [of an ounce...
...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
...Most New Trier kids who smoke pot--by all accounts more than three-fifths of the student body--wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket like that. Only a fraction of New Trier's pot smokers--the denizens of the Corner among them--view getting high as the main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their...
...simple country girl against a phalanx of church elders, the debate of passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press...
...showy, star-making lead performance by film novice Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves also gave hints that the world's leading festival and much of world cinema were at an identity-crisis point, more than ever lost in Hollywood's long shadow. The film's Danish director, Von Trier, built his reputation on labyrinthine parables (Element of Crime, Zentropa) with much camera dazzle; but to aim for the big movie market, Von Trier set Breaking the Waves in Scotland and made it in English. Meanwhile, Bernardo Bertolucci returned to Italy for his first film at home in 15 years...