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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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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