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Episodes recorded in Kinski Uncut fall into four categories: 1) sexual encounters with hundreds of women, beautiful and ugly, young and old, in a grotesque pornographic idiom that excludes sensual pleasure; 2) Céline-esque voyages of degradation and misery, often involving vomit, excrement, and delirium; 3) excoriations of incompetent directors, producers, writers, actors, journalists, and generally, all individuals who are not Kinski; 4) bouts of self-righteousness mixed with intense self-loathing.
He thought that the great increase in population would cause economic misery around the world, creating the need for a dictatorship to maintain order and control future population growth.
He has been guiltily preoccupied with the mystery of female misery ever since.
Chatterbox doesn't mean to suggest for a minute that the misery of Durham, N.C., when it snows there, is in any way preferable to the jubilation in Mount Baker, Wash.
Lee wins praise for his "gently ironic touch" in adapting a novel by Rick Moody, and for being "less interested in assigning blame for all the misery than in simply documenting it" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The movie is plugged here.