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But the film has the soul of a guidance counselor, and whenever it seems poised to go where no commercial American picture has gone before--to a place where our responses are gummed up, where we can grasp simultaneously the horror and the allure of the white supremacist movement--it snaps back into easy moralizing, demonization, and naive notions of how people change.
That in turn means they may be able to speak Spanish (even that is often not the case); but they can't read it well or write it fluently, and their grasp of its grammar may be weak, since they haven't actually studied it as a language.
(Even a die-hard Ionian might think that our moral sense evolved to grasp a logic of morality that is outside our minds in the same sense that our number sense evolved to grasp mathematical truths that are outside our minds.)
Ask Jeeves isn't perfect; in fact, it often exhibits a grasp of reality that falls somewhere between a database and the Magic 8-Ball.
Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)