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But his mistake is the opposite of Benton's in Twilight . Where Benton couldn't distance himself enough from his protagonist to generate a comic perspective, Kwietniowski can't keep from satirizing his hero's passion.
5. Was the protagonist morally reckless?
The connotation is of Cold War provenance and was given broad currency in large part through the novels of John Le Carré, whose longtime protagonist, the spy master George Smiley, has pursued moles within British intelligence.
Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.
The movie's too-casual discarding of its protagonist (John Cusack) suggests more self-loathing than unchecked misogyny--although the two impulses are clearly linked.