[Marxism] A possibly interesting film

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Dec 26, 2007 1:35 AM, Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <
ok.president+marxml at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> "The film depicts Jane's habit as pathetic even as it plays for laughs. At
> the same time, though "Smiley Face" suggests that the "straight" characters
> Jane encounters — the casting director (Jane Lynch); a bullying beat cop
> (Michael Shamus Wiles); a college professor's wife (Marion Ross) from whom
> Jane steals an original copy of Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto"; a
> couple of amiably clueless meat delivery men (Danny Trejo and John Cho); the
> humorless Brevin (John Krasinski of NBC's "Office"), who likes getting his
> teeth cleaned because it makes him feel "prosperous" — are in thrall to an
> even more powerful drug: the myth of the American dream.
>
> At one point Jane, who has somehow ended up at the meat-packing plant that
> employs the delivery men, deflects a supervisor's ire by claiming to be a
> union organizer, then fantasizes launching into a Marxist soliloquy about
> industrial oppression of labor. Mr. Araki intercuts Jane's rant with
> unsettling close-ups of meat being sliced, ground and liquefied. [...]"
>
Sorry about the missing information:

Review of:
"Smiley Face" by Gregg Araki

Review y MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
Published: December 26, 2007
The New York Times

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/movies/26smil.html?ref=movies>