But sometimes I must try to look at my oeuvre with the eyes of an old and jaded misanthropic outsider (or a young and jaded misanthropic insider).
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But it's a misanthropic undercurrent that runs through the film.
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They're not a bunch of misanthropic nerds sitting in basements.
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The two ladies are grumpy, misanthropic and also incredibly relatable.
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Street (now migrated to Hulu) and who played the lovably misanthropic Craig
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Rickman's character is droll, grumpy, misanthropic — the perfect stand-in for Rickman himself.
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Benjamin is a misanthropic Manhattan doctor; Midge is a charming, convention-defying comic.
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He's—falsely—called evil, exploitative, and misanthropic, leaving no hope for his characters.
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Musk later called the Wired story a "depressingly misleading & misanthropic article" on Twitter.
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Which suggests the elderly are simply be more discerning, rather than wilfully misanthropic.
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Scott Bradfield's most recent book is Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog.
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Those who call this relentlessly pessimistic or misanthropic would be missing the point.
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Nothing like some misanthropic cartoon smut for everyone you walk by throughout the day.
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They have an eruptive sardonic energy; devotion mixes with a sharply humorous misanthropic edge.
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Wojnarowicz's will blow your hair back: the sex, the nonlinear intensity, the misanthropic aplomb.
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It's a delightfully misanthropic buddy heist that's both solemn and light on its feet.
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He may have sounded misanthropic at times, but his warnings came from a good place.
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The idea of prioritizing clothes over real world events felt as misanthropic as it sounds.
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It's nihilistic and misanthropic, bleak and despairing, slickly shot and bathed in ragged industrial gloom.
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These boys don't have much going for them; their personalities range from vacant to misanthropic.
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YOU KIND OF WANT the fashion designer Rick Owens to be a monosyllabic, misanthropic recluse.
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In a Lonely Place, however, takes the archetype of a mercurial misanthropic misfit even further.
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It's no secret that Aquarians value their independence, but that isn't due to any misanthropic tendencies.
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HBO announced on Thursday that it has renewed Larry David's misanthropic comedy for a tenth season.
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After all, a "paperclip maximizer" wouldn't be hateful, belligerent, sexist, racist, homicidal, genocidal, militaristic, or misanthropic.
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Eligia, meanwhile, remains something of an enigma throughout the book, more mysterious than her misanthropic husband.
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Moshfegh is a young American writer of Croatian and Iranian descent who writes with misanthropic aplomb.
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Besides the sweet-natured giant yellow bird, he also played the misanthropic bellyacher Oscar the Grouch.
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It falls to the actors to endow the director's acute, misanthropic vision with emotional gravity and grace.
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Moshfegh writes with so much misanthropic aplomb, however, that she is always a deep pleasure to read.
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I've been gifted a gorgeous, hand-drawn custom portrait of my misanthropic Chihuahua, and I love it.
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Nobody calls Cartman"—the show's racist, anti-Semitic, misanthropic fourth grader—"Archie, but that's who he is.
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Without sounding too misanthropic, it's energizing to be able to switch off from that for a while.
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Inadvertently feeding the old trope about liberal hostility toward family values, they launched a misanthropic website called yourrepublicanuncle.
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Rick is an all-powerful, misanthropic asshole who is often overbearing toward Morty, his sensitive and naïve sidekick.
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They stuck out like a gnarly, dislocated thumb, thanks to their hard living ways and Dillon's biting, misanthropic persona.
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The show stars Aya Cash and Chris Geere as Gretchen and Jimmy, a misanthropic yet wildly appealing unlikely couple.
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So, to Mr. Haugland and his small misanthropic band of Never-Trumpers, we simply say, read the rules again.
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It's not just my favorite work in her estimable and varied oeuvre; it's a misanthropic masterpiece of the genre.
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Squidward is the creatively frustrated, misanthropic hipster whose attitude seems perfectly conditioned for today's acutely aware, always-questioning online culture.
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The survey was undertaken to better understand drive-thru buying habits, with the express purpose of attracting apparently misanthropic Millennials.
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In the documentary, Burden's sister confesses that they were rather "misanthropic characters" who often felt alienated from the community at large.
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Luther by himself might seem gloomy and misanthropic, but he is not at all exceptional by the standards of his time.
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I mean obviously the worst planet is Earth because of all the annoying humans infesting it (I call this the Misanthropic Principle).
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After observing hundreds of people in their solitude, Foos becomes increasingly misanthropic: In dehumanizing his guests, he loses his faith in humanity.
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Even I, a card-carrying semi-misanthropic introvert, have done that for months at a stretch and found it unexpectedly, disconcertingly natural.
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Dwight's review really got to the heart of what is so original about this book: its "misanthropic aplomb" and those serrated sentences.
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Transgressive Muppets and Muppet-like puppets that are mean and misanthropic and sexual and otherwise deviant are a shocking inversion of that.
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That scene was the most affecting in my time with the game, because it highlighted how misanthropic The Division's perspective on humanity is.
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Mr Carswell's brand of libertarianism had sat uncomfortably with the party's increasingly misanthropic nativism, a contrast only heightened by the vote for Brexit.
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Seinfeld's finale aired in 1998, but that hasn't stopped people from imagining how the misanthropic show "about nothing" would handle the new millennium.
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The room's broody, slightly misanthropic mood fit the occasion: Over the next three days, we'd be learning how not to be buried alive.
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They're a perfectly matched pair who find the fun in everything, whereas their so-called other best friend, Squidward, is a misanthropic counterpoint.
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Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a misanthropic, flannel-wearing high school junior who is annoyed with everyone, even when she doesn't want to be.
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The premise seems to be that those who wish to lower fertility rates must be misanthropic, or fail to see the value of humans.
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Beneath the film's elaborate trappings, Mr. Naishuller reveals a worldview so rawly misanthropic as to seem genuinely traumatized — very Russian, it could be said.
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"Resolve" addresses sex-selective abortions, "Pyre" is the story of an intercaste marriage (like Murugan's own), "The Misanthropic Bird" is about land and caste.
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A white supremacist radio host from Indiana can often be seen in videos with the banner of "Misanthropic Division" behind him, according to Bellingcat.
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At the risk of sounding misanthropic, it's gratifying to take in hours of ocean footage devoid of any humans, or signs of anthropogenic impacts.
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Gretchen Moll plays as a selfish, neurotic drunk without a care for her grieving son, and Michelle Williams plays a nagging, sour-faced, misanthropic hoser.
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It's as if Olympic fever grips America and no one, not even my misanthropic ass, is immune to getting at least a little bit invested.
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Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's 2014 canine revenge story White God is a misanthropic slog, but its choreography of a dog army is a breathtaking accomplishment.
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The Reids were known in their small town as a couple of misanthropic outsiders who kept to themselves and rarely made eye contact with anyone.
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The RE/Search book of Pranks (titled Pranks!) is just one of the best books ever made and will give any oddball or misanthropic recluse hope.
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One gleefully misanthropic monologue was built around his memories of working for a classical music publisher and gleefully subverting the wishes of callers seeking musical esoterica.
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Bernadette's misanthropic impulses are a source of humor, but they also speak to a pain and unhappiness that neither she nor those around her fully grasp.
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I felt lonely, trapped inside of myself—anxious I'd make a snarky suicide joke or some wildly dramatic misanthropic claim that would alienate me from the group.
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But the Black Museum is the largest single indicator that Black Mirror constitutes a coherent timeline of high-tech disasters, like the world's most misanthropic cinematic universe.
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On the contrary, instead of becoming misanthropic and evil, Sheila becomes more outgoing and energetic, dispensing optimistic life advice to neighbors, and leaning in at her job.
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They also injected this story, about a drunk misanthropic con artist who poses as Santa to rob department stores on Christmas Eve, with some serious daddy issues.
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In Master, a similar tactic is used to bring a fictional artist into existence, someone we're fascinated by precisely because he's so irascible and misanthropic, yet visionary.
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It consists entirely of footage of surf on the beach edited in a morose yet enchanting color palate, which pairs well with the song's gothically misanthropic drama.
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Ms. Kendrick's appearance invites the possibility of a romantic connection with Christian, but the movie, remaining true to its austere, ultramacho, deeply misanthropic ethos doesn't allow it.
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A downright risible blast of misanthropic dark comedy from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, Elle begins with Michele (Isabelle Huppert) being raped by an intruder in her home.
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Part of this year's Brits Off Broadway festival, this misanthropic comedy of disaster suggests that a life-obliterating apocalypse might be not only just, but also merciful.
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But as we see with terrorism itself, anger unchanneled, anger not given shape by mechanisms for progress, can all too easily become blindly sectarian and dangerously misanthropic.
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She possesses that alluring hot-and-cold quality that can be so addictive before you know better, alternating between self-flagellating confessions and a generalized misanthropic snobbery.
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The misanthropic provocateur Bruno Dumont's "Slack Bay" is a slapstick detective farce set in 1910 in a picturesque seaside fishing village near Calais where everyone is demented.
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In the early 1990s, Norwegian bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone and Immortal formed black metal's second wave, distinctly influencing the nihilistic and misanthropic tone the genre took on.
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It's essentially a murder mystery set at a country estate, but in tone and humor it closer to novelist Evelyn Waugh in one of his most misanthropic moods.
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His misanthropic creator—an alcoholic, bitter junk-dealer—assembled him out of an ethnically diverse assortment of body parts, scavenged carefully from the remains of suicide-bombing victims.
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M. Cioran, the misanthropic master of despair, seems like an unlikely choice for Will Alexander, the master of ecstatic language, which makes this encounter all the more engaging.
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A silently brooding, unsuccessful, hostile, misanthropic father ("He loved me but he couldn't stand me"), an enormously loving mother whose first loyalty, however, was to the unhappy husband.
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His ideas may be too bleak, too gloomy, too misanthropic for some, but they are clearly his, and in Alien 3 they are presented as forcefully as ever.
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The storyline was a jarring addition to a sitcom that is, essentially, a backward romantic-comedy about two misanthropic narcissistics (Gretchen and Jimmy) trying to maintain a relationship.
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He'd spent most of his twenties freelancing for PC Zone, a little-read gaming magazine, where he was able to indulge his obscene and misanthropic sense of humor.
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She was half-joking, but she does think that these long-maligned critters appeal to the self-deprecating, vaguely misanthropic worldview she shares with many in her generation.
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The two women play off each other well, whether Trish is providing a distraction so Jessica can steal police files, or coaching her misanthropic sister for a TV interview.
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Steve has decades of experience as a rock vocalist and has written with Ash, Placebo, and snake lover Slash who took interest in his misanthropic rock group Little Hell.
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It's clear that a murderer with a "misanthropic personality" or an "amoral character" has no cause to claim an exemption from execution, while someone with a "psychotic disorder" does.
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By turns lighthearted and cringeworthy, the film probes the darker side of trying to make a living as a writer while also depicting a kind of delightfully misanthropic friendship.
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Across 203 songs in 23 minutes, the band's debut full-length No Light Below's ruthless blend of heavy flavors and tormented lyrics reel you into the band's misanthropic worldview.
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He wed Patricia Melo, 54, a writer whose 2003 novel, "Black Waltz," describes an obsessive, divisive, misanthropic Brazilian conductor who leaves his first wife to marry a younger woman.
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It's at its best when it strips Black Mirror's tough social commentary of its misanthropic condescension, balancing a critique of technology with real sympathy for the people who use it.
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For those who swear by self-checkout lines as a means of keeping human interaction at a minimum, one retail giant has just made your most misanthropic dream come true.
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"I've always had a dark sense of humor, and to critique society, especially hetero-normative society, is really important to me," Olson says, of the misanthropic themes in his work.
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He cycles back into the Baumbach universe in 2015's "While We're Young," playing the somewhat less misanthropic, not as spectacularly underachieving son-in-law of a prominent documentary filmmaker.
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Neil LaBute, a prominent American playwright and screenwriter known for his portraits of misanthropic and misogynistic men, has been abruptly cut off by one of New York's leading nonprofit theaters.
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A misanthropic agronomist, after discovering the infidelity of his girlfriend (whom he already despised), abandons Paris—"infested with eco-friendly bourgeois"—for Normandy, where he once lived and loved happily.
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Will the misanthropic, elitist writer Jimmy, who yells "Eject" when he wants someone else to stop talking, and the needy, clinically depressed publicist Gretchen make it to the finish line?
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With hundreds of annotations and photographs, the more obscure elements of Lovecraft's stories are explained, as are the experiences that may have contributed to Lovecraft's racism, misogyny and generally misanthropic worldview.
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Black metal wouldn't exist without Celtic Frost's misanthropic grunts, but it's this moment of atmospheric layering that drives home the genre's odd love of mixing extreme imagery with sweeping gothic romance.
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Richard E. Grant co-stars in the comedy, which probes the darker side of trying to make a living as a writer while also depicting a kind of delightfully misanthropic friendship.
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It's as if heavy metal music fans have suddenly realized that fantasy and science fiction are close relatives, and that nothing is more inhospitable, nihilistic, and misanthropic than the cosmic void.
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While the demonic gurglings and fleeting moments of quasi-ambience are suitably dark and misanthropic, the duo still put their own spin on things without deviating too far from genre norms.
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Even the cynical structure of "It's Always Sunny" — which resets after every episode, releasing its misanthropic bar staff to pinball around the pub again — feels oddly better suited to the moment.
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It will be the first episode of the series, in which the misanthropic comedian Larry David plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself, since the Season 8 finale in Sept. 2011.
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But like many other fast food giants, Pizza Hut is scrambling to find ways to sell their product to savvy, misanthropic Millennials, and that will now include targeting athletic college students.
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Tech both as an industry and as a nebulous utopian idea is too often portrayed either as the savior of the human race, or as a misanthropic, self-righteous machine of capitalism.
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Misanthropic zombie narratives inevitably become stories about purity and containment — about a terrifying fear of the Other, the people who appear human on the surface, but are mindless and dangerous and frightening.
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Nirvana were punks who made misanthropic pop-rock and hated the music industry, yet their sound paved the way for a wave of truly terrible radio-rock bands like Nickelback and Creed.
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This clash of ecosystems could easily be the lifeblood of the cinematic franchise, reviving Malcolm's misanthropic skepticism over discovery as a benevolent or redemptive process, just as Goldblum's 1993 version memorably did.
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The most outspoken of the lot is the misanthropic Maxine (Danielle Skraastad), who lives with her four children in a motel room behind the local Costco and snarls at pretty much everyone.
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Aside from making you laugh, Lee Israel might have another thing in common with McCarthy's Bridesmaids character Annie: The role of a brilliant, misanthropic curmudgeon could very well earn her an Oscar nomination.
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Here's the chorus: Aaron is every bit as misanthropic and sick-of-this-shit as Hoppus, but he's seemingly less inclined to chase after folks on the street with a potentially deadly weapon.
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He continued on with his mission in 2002 with Eight Crazy Nights, his equally misanthropic and sophomoric cartoon about one screw-up's attempts to scrape his life back together during the holiday season.
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For the occasion, THUMP is delighted to premiere "Anti-Everything," an oneiric ambient piece that, over the course of ten minutes, delicately carves out its own unstable, earnest, and misanthropic sense of time.
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The man has made a career (primarily as a misanthropic government worker on "Parks and Recreation") of leaning back and asking the audience to come to him, and, by and large, we have.
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Less defensible: a show which dilates on men's sexual and romantic needs with female characters only present to enable them; a story of a misanthropic schlub who lands a smart, beautiful lady, just because.
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Try if you like: Arrested Development There are so many shows about Hollywood and the misanthropic residents of Los Angeles that it would be more than understandable if the idea of another one bores you.
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Grant's take on Jack is electric — he's a live, uncontrollable wire, an endlessly cheerful fast talker, and a delightful hustler with a misanthropic streak that stands in stark contrast to Lee's more straightforward bristly exterior.
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While you are ready to leave your family in the dust, and thus are a perfect candidate to live in my misanthropic home state, your wife clearly wants to go back where people are nice.
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After a near-death experience Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic Manhattan dentist played by a sniveling Ricky Gervais, starts to see dead people — namely, a two-timing yuppie (Greg Kinnear) who was hit by a bus.
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Self-described as "misanthropic in approach," Primitive Man is one of those doom bands that really thrive on the depressive, and use that negative energy to dredge up emotions most feel are best yet untapped.
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In the TV series "SpongeBob," Squidward, the hero's misanthropic neighbor, does stretchy "interpretive dance" (he's an octopus), which in pop-culture shorthand means he's pretentious, just as the clarinet he plays means he's a dork.
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The animated series, about a misanthropic scientific genius and his grandson, was also the most-viewed comedy show on television for 18- to 34-year-olds in the United States in 2017, according to Nielsen.
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For a woman who has misanthropic tendencies, the narrator consults a dizzying array of friends — there's Marissa, the actress; Libby, the newly pregnant old high school friend; and Nicola, who has four kids, among others.
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It is a likeness of Ignatius J. Reilly, the misanthropic hero of "A Confederacy of Dunces"; for Ignatius, New Orleans is an abode of "jades, litterbugs and lesbians", but the world outside it is a "wasteland".
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He rallied enough board members, including his natty, misanthropic younger brother Roman, to push his father out, but when the day arrived, he was stuck in traffic and could not whip up votes over the phone.
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One of the brothers (Richard Gere) is a glad-handing politician; the other (Steve Coogan) is a sarcastic former history teacher who gradually reveals himself to be not just resentful and misanthropic but also seriously unhinged.
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Without feeling like a paint-by-numbers kit, "Defenders" maintains the essence of the misanthropic private eye, Jones; the haunted blind vigilante, Daredevil; the bulletproof Harlem mensch, Cage; and the hippy-dippy martial artist, Iron Fist.
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Today he proved he's a next-level stan when he tweeted some Rick and Morty fan art that imagines himself as the misanthropic, self-obsessed scientist from the show with his wife, Kim Kardashian, as his sidekick.
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Was David Fincher interrogated about his attitudes about humanity, given the misanthropic world view largely held by John Doe — who, ultimately in being named John Doe is kind of like a stand-in for men in general?
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L.Q. Jones' 22002 adaptation of a post-apocalyptic story by the late Harlan Ellison has both a misogynist streak and a separate misanthropic streak, but it's certainly a different kind of look at the apocalypse from most.
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To take another example: Ben Stiller, a fixture of several distinct, overlapping quasi-troupes (including his own), shows up in "Greenberg," Noah Baumbach's 2010 romantic comedy, as the misanthropic, underachieving brother of a successful Los Angeles hotelier.
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The bill could also apply to the Misanthropic Division, an international group that was founded in 2014 in Ukraine and has close ties to the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi-aligned regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard.
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Chicago's Lair of the Minotaur tells the Barbarian's story with misanthropic stripped-down stoner rock, while Skeletonwitch, Death of Kings, and 3 Inches of Blood use rollicking thrash to depict the thrill and fun of this kickass personification.
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It follows the story of Donnie, a misanthropic and troubled teenager, and his movements between an oppressive school environment, a blossoming romance with Jena Malone's character, and his adventures with Frank, a strange man in a rabbit costume.
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Seemingly every genre of show has located an angle: the headline-ripping procedural ("The Good Fight"), the misanthropic sitcom ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"), the frothy romantic comedy ("Younger"), and the broadcast news satire (the "Murphy Brown" reboot).
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Similarly, in 26 the chart-topping Inside Out was joined by the wistful, nostalgic anime When Marnie Was There and Anomalisa, an artfully misanthropic oddity from indie auteur Charlie Kaufman (the writer behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation).
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Primitive Man is many things—heavy, hateful, miserable, misanthropic, distorted, doomed—but the Denver trio is absolutely nothing if not prolific, a fact we're reveling in here today by offering you a double dip of their two newest releases.
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Michelle Goldberg Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.
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Likewise, does Saul's misanthropic mashup of civic issues and icons that includes images of Ronald Reagan as a druggie and Martin Luther King Jr. as a giant octopus massaging the phallus of justice point toward anything other than disaffection?
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Outstanding performances by Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Katey Sagal (Married... with Children), and Charlie Hunnam (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), and technical advising from real Hell's Angels, elevate what could have been a misanthropic circle-jerk into modern Shakespeare territory.
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The French director Benoît Jacquot's screen adaptation of "Diary of a Chambermaid" has serious narrative glitches and a shaky timeline, but at least it is true to the bitterly misanthropic spirit of Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel about masters and servants.
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Tacticool may still exist on the range, but videogames have adopted the same mindset and made it into something of their own—a weird and materialistic worship of cold, misanthropic parts, all designed with one goal in mind: to look elite.
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You may or may not, depending on how misanthropic you are or are not, create a sort of uber-creature that will have dominion over all this, and give that creature the acute sense that it DESERVES dominion over all this.
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Mainly, she says, it's a concept album about climate change, one that eschews explicit political messaging to discover the artist, in videos and promotional social media posts, incarnating a misanthropic climate goddess who seems hell-bent on destroying the world.
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Like all tweens, these kids have a touch of the hardcore misanthropic about them; they show up to watch horror films and teach Chucky stabbing moves, and Chucky, like a YouTube algorithm gone haywire, rapidly proceeds to take those to the extreme.
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With each instance, all the most hyperbolically misanthropic associations that Americans have about face masks — an admission of disease, selfishness, stupidity, paranoia, gullibility, and greed — becomes further correlated with Asians, unfairly stigmatizing us as the culprits of a problem we didn't create.
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Often, they feature eccentrics and visionaries who see things that others are blind to — like Mr. Beane of the A's, or Michael Burry, the misanthropic hedge fund manager in "The Big Short," who made a fortune by betting against the housing market.
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The film follows the boozy, misanthropic Mavis as she flees Minneapolis to return to her small Minnesota hometown of Mercury, where she hopes to get her life back on track by stealing her ex-boyfriend Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson) from his wife Beth (Elizabeth Reaser).
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Rogue's de facto hit—a stone-hearted celebration of solitude christened "Misanthropic Drunken Loner"—comes flanked by the apoplectic "Call in the Coroner" and "Blue Jays," a song known to lull moshpit scrapers into states of pensive meditation, penned in tribute to Flynn's departed grandfather.
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Yes, we reflect on how we really do need human companionship despite our misanthropic grumbles on social media, and we decide that next year, we're going to exhibit less road rage, floss for more than two days in a row, and sleep with fewer losers.
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It's hard to find a less likely cultural rallying point than Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty," the weird, bleak, semi-psychedelic animated show about a misanthropic scientist and his below-average grandson whose world-inverting adventures tend to have an odd tinge of nihilism.
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She's a forbidding young woman who does not suffer fools lightly, and she peppers her dialogue with a spiky, misanthropic wit that's reminiscent of Jane Eyre telling the preacher that to avoid hell, she'll be sure to stay in good health and not die.
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The band, which is the sole creation of a man going by the name of Fog, plays black metal for the purists, with themes dwelling on the myths, legends, and folklore of this part of the world, putting a misanthropic bent on traditional Taiwanese orchestral arrangements.
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While Turgenev sank into misanthropic pessimism when his liberal dreams came to nothing and Dostoyevsky transited from revolutionary agitation to deep-dyed conservatism, Herzen remained true to the revolutionary dreams of his youth, without ever losing what Isaiah Berlin was to call his unsparing sense of reality.
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It's not my favorite musical—Vandergelder is a one-note creation, a long misanthropic whine, and Herman is not the subtlest lyricist in the world—and until I saw Midler in the role I was partial to the 1969 Barbra Streisand film version, directed by Gene Kelly.
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Stead has Twain appear regularly throughout his text — convincingly grim and even misanthropic, as he so often was in old age — to offer his take on the tale and comment on it, while Stead himself listens, comments himself and then is left alone to write an ending.
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What Slipknot mean to people is always going to vary, but if you were to ever conduct a survey I'm sure similar misanthropic themes would emerge: They pissed off parents; they riled up the dickheads at school; they're heavy AF and they wear masks and they're incredible live.
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The French writer, futurist and adventurer Blaise Cendrars, along with artist Sonia Delaunay, made it the focus of his revolutionary poem/art book Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France, and misanthropic comedian Karl Pilkington traveled its length in 2012 for Ricky Gervais's series An Idiot Abroad.
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Considine, in a superb, anchoring performance), whose domain improbably accommodates his seven children (ages 9 months to 16), his invalid wife, Mary (Genevieve O'Reilly), and his misanthropic, staunchly Irish republican aunt and Virgil-quoting uncle, both of whom are called Pat (pricelessly portrayed by Dearbhla Molloy and Mark Lambert).
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While its first season initially sold the show as yet another caustic take of Hollywood's more narcissistic corners, the series slowly became much more complex than that, as well as far more human — which is hilarious, since the show stars a misanthropic horse, enthusiastic Labrador, and jaded cat.
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I speak, of course, of "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers' pitch-black comedy about morons attempting spycraft in Washington, D.C., which upon first viewing seemed too unremittingly misanthropic, too grimly contemptuous of its characters, without the flashes of grace that illuminate the darkness in most Coen depictions of human folly.
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Lindsay, who begins the series stuck in an unhappy marriage, is a very specific brand of nasty and naughty, a woman who has turned misanthropic and petty in the face of her own limitations (Donohue plays Lindsay's sneering ditziness so brilliantly that I am surprised she hasn't won an Emmy for it).
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The defining scenes of the show, something I've never seen captured so well, are the ones where the misanthropic, erratic Geoffrey drops the tortured-genius schtick and really directs: popping the hood of an actor's interiority, tinkering instructively and patiently with the parts that power both them and their characters, and then handing them the keys.
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Ishiguro is certainly using his fantasy ideas in a heavily allegorical mode: The Buried Giant is a melancholy story built around the idea of a medieval English legend, with a dragon and a curse, and even readers who love it will tell you straightforwardly that it is a cold and misanthropic book that sees the worst in human nature.
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An excellent Hailee Steinfeld anchors the film as proudly misanthropic black sheep Nadine; newcomer Hayden Szeto provides a perfect foil as Nadine's heartbreakingly genuine classmate Edwin; and a couple of adult ringers — namely Woody Harrelson as Nadine's long-suffering teacher/confidante and Kyra Sedgwick as her mother — keep the whole thing from spinning out into a teen-angst parade.
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His name was Caroll Spinney — not that many people would know it — and he was the comfortably anonymous whole-body puppeteer who, since the 1969 inception of the public television show that has nurtured untold millions of children, had portrayed the sweet-natured, canary-yellow giant bird and the misanthropic, furry-green bellyacher in the trash can outside 123 Sesame Street.
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