With a haphazard approach to its songs - which stop and start with casual disregard for melodic momentum - the film tips its hat at a messier idea of reality.
But there's a serious lack of humor in "Maps to the Stars," so all the coldness of the Hollywood Hills is folded into a tale of messy ideas that aren't especially entertaining or penetrating.
For me personally, FZF feels like a rare, ideal space where all these messy ideas are expressed, in a beautifully messy format... and the whole idea is hey! we want something else from this world, in terms of "feminism".
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"Superintelligence" is not intended as a treatise of deep originality; Bostrom's contribution is to impose the rigors of analytic philosophy on a messy corpus of ideas that emerged at the margins of academic thought.
The resulting book, which was short-listed for last year's Booker Prize in Britain, lacks the fierce originality of Mr. Mitchell's debut novel, "Ghostwritten" (2000), and despite bravura moments it tends to feel like a messy hodgepodge of ideas, experimental dream sequences and leaden leitmotifs: a story at once overly thought out and too haphazardly assembled.
Democracy is a messy business, based upon the idea that multiplicity is good, and that in the great marketplace of ideas, the best ideas win.
The idea that a messy house is reserved for boys is so completely beyond reality that I can hardly bring myself to point out that girls also leave messes ev-er-y-where.
The world, a messy place, may have other ideas.
The act of sorting through a messy fountain of information and ideas is stimulating in and of itself, and you never know when you'll come across something that's fascinating but that you wouldn't have stumbled on except for a stray retweet you happened to click.
