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Many people felt a sense of liberation; the changes allowed them to get out of unpleasant marriages without the often contrived allegations of fault previously required for divorce.
In short, The Last Thing He Wanted looks like proof of what you may have suspected for some time: that for all its restlessness about form, Joan Didion's fiction is formulaic--even contrived.
The lonely lamp-lit couples in his "Modern Romance" (1984-86), contrived with dolls and miniature props soon after his move to New York City in 1983, effectively evoke the nighttime diners and hotel bedrooms of Edward Hopper and film noir.
These mock-rivalries were contrived to attract publicity and promote sales--surely, that's true of the rap wars, too.
The critics are unmoved: "just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). A few call Danes' performance better than the rest of the film but concede that even her nice turn can't save the film.