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Tender Is the Blight

JL;DR SUMMARY Kenneth Lonergan’s film "Margaret," despite its delayed unveiling, has emerged as a powerful piece of American Jewish cultural commentary. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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American Jewish CultureFilm AnalysisShakespeareExistentialismUpper West SideEthicsMargaretKenneth LonerganKing LearTeen Tragedy

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New York, United States
"At one moment about halfway through a film that runs about three and a half hours, a bunch of Upper West Side New York prep school kids are asked by their well-meaning if uninspiring English teacher to gloss the Earl of Gloucesters lines from King Lear, As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods; They kill us for their sport."

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