Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Al Czervik
"I never saw dead people smoke before!"
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Ty Webb
"Stop thinking. Let things happen."
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
Carl Spackler
“People say, you know, I’m an idiot or something."
Laddoo vs. Cake
The cake has always been at odds with Indian culture.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
We Are Iron Man
“Heavy boots of lead / Fills his victims full of dread."
Stay on Track
Blursday the fortyteenth of Maprilay.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Judge Smails
"Some people simply do not belong."