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Someone must have spent a fortune to option Quinn's book before concluding that an interspecies Socratic, telepathic dialogue with huge chunks of the Earth First!
Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.
Nevertheless, the answers involve embracing the Socratic method (it is impossible to think of anything more radical than first-year law school classes with half a dozen students), not demeaning it.
Other interview shows may retain a smoother veneer of Socratic dialogue, but the emphasis on maintaining a civilized atmosphere actually dulls the intellectual rigor of the discussion.
Law school question-and-answer teaching is as Socratic as slam dancing is balletic.