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Crisis in Six Scenes looks like Allen accepting a compliment from television without bothering to return it.
Accepting a compliment is skill in itself.
Some cultures think accepting a compliment is like boasting.
We do, by nature focus on the negatives - "It was good, but I could have done better" or instead of accepting a compliment we deflect it with a negative statement.
Is that why accepting a compliment is tough, because we are built with the fight or flight mechanism that saves us from something scary and, therefore, we are gravitate toward something negative versus positive?
Accepting a compliment does not mean that you are arrogant or "stuck-up".
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He accepts a compliment.
Eventually one friend accepts a compliment and the women all kill themselves in dramatic fashion.
In another, one of the funniest and most shocking, a group of female acquaintances are so unable to accept compliments that they go berserk and kill themselves when they hear a woman accept a compliment with a mere "thank you".
MOMENTS after walking into a Chelsea cafe the choreographer Emily Johnson accepted a compliment for her vintage black-and-white brocade coat.
Some of the best scenes involve circles of female friends, such as one in which the women are so competitively self-deprecating that when one of them accepts a compliment all the others commit suicide.
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