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At this stupendously felt moment, the chronology of Shyamalan’s nascent politicking becomes crystal clear, in accordance with a general index of the post-9/11 cultural downturn: Signs stands to say, “Strangers are fucking us.” The Village stands to say, “We are fucking each other.” And Lady in the Water stands to say, “I am masturbating.

Evan Bryson on a bright wall in a dark room.: Thrashing Blindly Through a Wood: or, Approaching Shyamalan with an Agenda

 
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Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Tagged with: M. Night Shyamalanfilmic onanismpost-9/11 cinema
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Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.

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