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Sarah, you're right--the actors are keeping pace with the filmmakers, daring to leave dreary realism (and other misapplications of the Method) behind.
Where he tries to lay out a policy agenda, as in his recent book The Future of American Progressivism (co-written with Roberto Mangabeira Unger), I think he oscillates between dreary, conventional ideas (public financing of campaigns, class-based rather race-based affirmative action, a consumption tax) and utterly impractical ones (a modified parliamentary system, explicit economic redistribution, mandatory voting).
What a dreary prospect!"
instead of living in this "dreary" modern world in which Madrid is just like Paris and Atlanta is just like New York.
The term "slice of life" has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.