Word: angst
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...played by this film's writer, Mike White, who also scripted High Fidelity and TV's Freaks and Geeks, and since the director is Richard Linklater of Dazed and Confused fame--you might guess that The School of Rock is a skeptical, slackery satire with spasms of irony and angst. You'd be wrong. The movie is a joyous, sloppy, quasi-inspirational comedy that means to stride down the middle of the road, gathering all significant movie demographics in its embrace...
...Guess He'll Skip This Flick You reported that director Royston Tan's intense, gritty film 15 explores teenage life on the dark side of Singapore [Sept. 1]. You suggested that Singaporeans will learn much from the movie's depiction of adolescent angst and despair. This is questionable. We Singaporeans have seen too many delinquents cutting class, chain-smoking, taking drugs, running away from home and fighting. Because the government has not yet approved this film for general release in Singapore, Tan said he feels like an outcast. Well, no apologies. This country was built by a generation of workers...
...Clarks' middle-class angst is shared by a generation of Americans who expected prosperity, or at least financial security, to be almost assured for the two-paycheck family. That assumption is increasingly misguided, according to the two-income trap: why middle-class mothers & fathers are going broke (basic books; 255 pages). Authors Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and bankruptcy expert, and Amelia Warren Tyagi, a business consultant and Warren's daughter, offer a startling account of the elusiveness of the American Dream. They conclude that modern families are no better off than the Ozzie-and-Harriet household...
...cultural oxymoron scale, the idea of a "Singaporean punk" weighs in somewhere between "Chinese democrat" and "Texan pacifist." Singapore is supposedly the air-conditioned Eden, as neat and ordered as the corner of a well-made bed. Forget teen angst and despair. Who despairs in heaven...
...movie to win a Best Picture Oscar and the first of the gay director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right man to direct the angst-ridden thriller Marathon Man and Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad--another portrait in Schlesinger's gallery of men clever enough to know they have made a mess of their lives...