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For reasons only Hoffman understands, he has saddled Nick Bottom (Kevin Kline), one of Shakespeare's most delightfully shameless extroverts, with a nagging wife and added bits in which the braggart is poignantly humiliated by children.
I'm glad you're putting Magnolia on your 10-best list, because it needs champions; it seems to me so poignantly vulnerable to ridicule.
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.
It could have been A Walk on the Moon , My Son the Fanatic , The End of the Affair , Dick , Sleepy Hollow , Run Lola Run , Toy Story 2 , Princess Mononoke , Cookie's Fortune , American Movie , or the barely-noticed black comedy Six Ways to Sunday . It could have been--whatever their problems-- The Sixth Sense , American Beauty , The Blair Witch Project (backlash schmacklash, it scared me), October Sky , or The Matrix . It could have been a poignantly silly comic-book movie that I seem to be alone in loving: Mystery Men .
And it becomes poignantly clear that Updike's hero is beginning to die, not just because his physical self is deteriorating, but because he has a soul, which is shrinking.
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