FINAL MOVIE NOTE: Forgot to mention that Jesse Walker rightly took me to task for implying that “The Ice Storm” is nihilist. Very poor word choice on my part. The thing I was trying to get at is that TIS is–or, at least, this is how it feels to me when I watch it–purely negative. It tells you how awful it is to live in a culture that’s losing its moral compass. But there’s not a very vivid sense of what you should do, what right action and love would look like. In that respect it reminds me of a lot of Nirvana’s music. (I really love both TIS and Nirvana, by the way.)