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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Are You Not Suffocated with Whimsy?!?]]></title>

    
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    <author><![CDATA[Benjamin Sutton]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Nick, I completely agree with your assessment of Jeunet's tired and over-emphasized quirkiness, although it seems very much descended from Terry Gilliam (rather than Home Alone), a kind of delight in the mal-equipped underdog that is infectious to a point, but never adequately captured or recreated (at least, in Gilliam, not since Time Bandits).<br>
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Meanwhile, you mention Jeunet's supposedly inoffensive class politics without developing the point much further (presumably due to stringent space constraints). Slumdog Millionaire seems like a handy inter-text here, another film that dilutes massive, global systems of subjugation, exploitation and inequality to a facile opposition between our endearingly impoverished and scruffy protagonists (often children, to boot) and slickly sleazy bad guys.
        
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