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Life is Beautiful, The Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Shawshank Redemption.
This past holiday season, I noted that every Christmas movie made in the last ten years had a plot that revolved around a fmaily recovering from a dead mother or child. And the Hallmark and Family Channels showed them relentlessly.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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