Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with some nicely put thoughts about messing with nature. Verhoeven simply makes a mess...
...Moreover, Lieberman's seriousness about religion - he's an Orthodox Jew, which is serious business - gives him a greater aura as a moral leader than just an ethnic one. You'll probably be seeing Gore in a yarmulke more often than before, and not just at fund-raisers or United Jewish Appeal dinners...
...every alcoholic will do almost anything to avoid facing the truth. Moderation management gives the addict a hiding place. It poisonously helps him along in the avoidance, gives him a strategy (14 drinks... wellllll, maybe 16 or 17 this week... or, just this once, maybe, oh, 42) and moral cover (it's all right, you see, I'm in this program...) to continue doing the one thing he must...
...tanned, multilingual Europeans striding purposefully upward, talking, one assumes, about man's fate and the future of culture and such things. And you see the occasional large, pathetic, flabby American sitting on a rock and gasping for breath, sweating off the Big Macs, thinking about coronary occlusion. There are moral fables everywhere you look. Despicable, whiny teenagers slouch along, and valiant geezers pass them. It's Pilgrim's Progress in real life...
...pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation for, if not to make you feel better about yourself...