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Ironists run a continual risk: if they nudge too hard and use too broad an irony, they risk sounding facetious; if they stay deadpan and use too subtle an irony, they sound in earnest and risk being taken literally.
Although critics detect shaky spots, they find the film "stirring, powerful, and thrilling," and call veteran poetry-slam champion Saul Williams' performance as a drug dealer/poet "eerily beautiful" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). USA Today 's Andy Seiler disagrees: "The movie drowns in self-indulgence and earnest speechifying."
And there are hundreds of earnest petitioners and pilgrims even today on the summit of Taishan.
Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.
Lante K Earnest Chairman Frandsen Campaign Steering Committee