Culture critics say the darndest things
Pop quiz time! According to Chicago Tribune culture critic Julia Keller, the (awful) movie ‘Freedomland’, the (so-so) movie ‘Flightplan’, and the (frankly, never watched them) TV shows ‘Without a Trace’ and ‘Cold Case’ are:
a) examples of Hollywood attempting to milk tired genres;
b) much more fun when you watch them on YouTube;
or
c) examples of American culture’s post-9/11 fascination with absence, just like the work of literary giants Alice Munro, Jonathan Safran Foer and John Haskell (okay, he’s not a giant, but he’s a great novelist), all “underlie[d by a] frantic desire for the status quo, a desperate yearning for life to return to the way it used to be.”
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