SandBox Comments: Aspen Times/Paul Nitze "Where the living is easy and conversation is hard"

"So far, so typical. If “The Descendants” goes somewhere deeper, and I think it does, it's because Payne is able to link personal character to national culture. In the film's early minutes, he has Clooney tell the audience that just because Hawaii looks like paradise, it doesn't mean Hawaiians get a pass on human nature. As exotic as it looks, Hawaii is transformed into the American main street circa 2011...."
(Paul Nitze)

Well done by Paul Nitze.  Up on the Aspen Times.

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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."