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Eat Your Vegetables Column Archive
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Eat Your Vegetables: “Being John Malkovich,” Being Puppets Without Strings
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No Comments"It's not a fun truth that we all want to be somebody else. In fact, the film's black joke is even more depressing: given the opportunity, we would simply morph that new person into us." -
Eat Your Vegetables: A Critique of Criticism
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments"But more than the film’s source for comedy, irony is at the heart of everything the film does." -
Eat Your Vegetables: The First Rule of Fighting Yourself…
Posted on April 26, 2012 | 3 Comments"If I buy what the film's selling, then the only consolation I have is that at least I feel alive as the flames melt me." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Annie Hall,” Romance, and Real Love
Posted on April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment"I get the feeling that remembering what was supposedly great is far more fun that actually experiencing said greatness." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Badlands” (Malick, 1973)
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No Comments"The movie about a young spree-killer and his 'along for the ride' girl gives us a way to think about how we relate to creatures who can’t overtly communicate." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Doubt” (Shanley, 2008)
Posted on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment"The film ultimately believes in doubt, thus robbing both belief and doubt of their potency." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Roger & Me” (Moore, 1989)
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No Comments"In a way, the film documents the toppling of an idol, an exposed god." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Mother Night” (Vonnegut, 1961)
Posted on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment"The novel offers a parable on the cost of losing your ethical identity, or more precisely, the cost of remaining unaware of your moral identity." -
Eat Your Vegetables: Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978)
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No Comments"Is it better to have no spirituality than its pretentious simulacrum?" -
Eat Your Vegetables: “The Age of Innocence” (Wharton, 1920)
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No CommentsThe novel’s tone is thoroughly ironic, as Archer continually misreads as progressive the very traits that consign him to the status quo. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Inglorious Basterds” (Tarantino, 2009)
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 10 CommentsThe thing that I admire most about "Inglorious Basterds" is that it enforces moral responsibility. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “The Crying of Lot 49″ (Pynchon, 1966)
Posted on January 19, 2012 | 1 CommentIt’s a kind of mystery novel, so you are tempted to figure out the puzzle that leaves the novel’s central character flummoxed. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “The Third Man” (Reed, 1949)
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No Comments"...the world doesn’t suffer from a lack of villains. In fact, it has too many." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
Posted on January 5, 2012 | 5 Comments"I use this film to talk to my students about... the unknown knowns that orient our behavior in ways we’re never entirely cognizant of." -
Eat Your Vegetables: Beowulf
Posted on December 29, 2011 | 7 Comments"The poem reminds us of a culture’s fragility, not only through its contents but by its very existence." -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Out of the Past”
Posted on December 22, 2011 | 2 CommentsIn film noir, you never win: you just see how long you can stave off losing. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Singin’ in the Rain”
Posted on December 15, 2011 | 2 Comments"Singin’ in the Rain" is glorious because it revels in its own artificiality. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Citizen Kane”
Posted on December 8, 2011 | 1 CommentLet’s work with the assumption that "Citizen Kane" says something essential about being an American. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “Gulliver’s Travels”
Posted on December 1, 2011 | 5 CommentsJonathan Swift's satire helps us see what's wrong not only with the world but with ourselves. -
Eat Your Vegetables: “The Ambassadors”
Posted on November 24, 2011 | No CommentsHolbein's painting warns us against seeking complete knowledge as well as succumbing to fatal pessimism.