Yesterday I read a profile article in New York Magazine about Cornel West. In it he is quoted as saying, "21st-century confessional narcissism isn't his thing". When I read that I was reminded of an Actor's Studio interview with an actor, whom I've forgotten now, describing that it was an uniquely American trait to say and express everything in a film that one had on one's mind. That American actor's bulldoze their way through a film leaving nothing to the imagination. The actor then gave examples of American films versus say, French film. When I thought about it I felt I had to agree. Anyone who has seem an Isabelle Huppert film will surely agree that what she expresses without words says volumes more than what Robert DeNiro or a Woody Allen film attempts to do. We as Americans can't seem to shut up. Another side of this is an insistence that what you say be polished and presented to satisfy everyone within earshot. This last component is interesting...
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