“After the credits, I joined the throng and exited the theater. Everyone was rubbing their eyes at first, but by the time we had reached the fluorescent lobby we remembered what country we lived in and where we’d parked our cars.”
The movie is A Mighty Heart, the Angelina Jolie movie about Daniel Pearl; the tone is easy gentle Millennial snark, readable if a little inconsequential. Despite that — and despite being a book that so completely zeroes in on a moment of postadolescent postgraduate malaise, white and suburban and privileged — Stein hits the important points right: both the breeziness of tone, and the weight of the little epiphanies at the end.
January 03, 2012, 9:48am Comments
