Eat Your Vegetables: "Mother Night" (Vonnegut, 1961)

March 8, 2012 By 1 Comment

“The novel offers a parable on the cost of losing your ethical identity, or more precisely, the cost of remaining unaware of your moral identity.”

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Eat Your Vegetables: Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978)

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“Is it better to have no spirituality than its pretentious simulacrum?”

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Eat Your Vegetables: "The Age of Innocence" (Wharton, 1920)

February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The novel’s tone is thoroughly ironic, as Archer continually misreads as progressive the very traits that consign him to the status quo.

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Eat Your Vegetables: "Inglorious Basterds" (Tarantino, 2009)

January 26, 2012 By 10 Comments

The thing that I admire most about “Inglorious Basterds” is that it enforces moral responsibility.

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Eat Your Vegetables: "The Crying of Lot 49" (Pynchon, 1966)

January 19, 2012 By 1 Comment

It’s a kind of mystery novel, so you are tempted to figure out the puzzle that leaves the novel’s central character flummoxed.

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Eat Your Vegetables: "The Third Man" (Reed, 1949)

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“…the world doesn’t suffer from a lack of villains. In fact, it has too many.”

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Eat Your Vegetables: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

January 5, 2012 By 5 Comments

“I use this film to talk to my students about… the unknown knowns that orient our behavior in ways we’re never entirely cognizant of.”

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Eat Your Vegetables: Beowulf

December 29, 2011 By 7 Comments

“The poem reminds us of a culture’s fragility, not only through its contents but by its very existence.”

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Eat Your Vegetables: "Out of the Past"

December 22, 2011 By 2 Comments

In film noir, you never win: you just see how long you can stave off losing.

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Eat Your Vegetables: "Singin' in the Rain"

December 15, 2011 By 2 Comments

“Singin’ in the Rain” is glorious because it revels in its own artificiality.

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