Quote for the Day

"As Weitz’s film, ["American Dreamz] implies, we now live in a country that has a government of incompetence and prevarication. And we know it. No rational person ever completely believes any government, but now we sense, almost like a physical chill, a gap between the administration and the country. We feel that our lives are in the hands of a government that, day by day, speech by speech, is more and more feeble, myopic, and mendacious. The country seems schizoid: on one side, the tremendous power of the government; on the other side, us. This condition seems the base of the cartoon here – the president floundering in the middle of a smarmy television show, trying to bridge the gap – and it gives this modest picture a scary sting," – Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic.