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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Ebert on FSM

There's a great paragraph towards the end of Ebert's review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall that was very close to the kind of things I was trying to express in my review. I thought I'd post it here.
Like most Apatow-influenced movies, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is, at heart, about forgiveness. We all do stupid, destructive and self-destructive things for which we're probably not going to forgive ourselves, so the best thing in the world is when somebody else forgives us. In the movie's moral universe, there are no irredeemably bad people -- just those afflicted to various degrees with shallowness, immaturity, selfishness, obliviousness, ambition.
Posted by scott cunningham at 7:14 PM

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