Who wouldn't want to make their home in a place that combines old-fashioned charm (ace tea/coffee shops, famous literary links, big moors) and a healthy non-conformism with the best of cosmopolitan, urban values?
Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with a fascist rigor is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving this family comedy.
Lockstep suburban conformism enforced with a fascist rigor is the ugly (but admittedly sometimes funny) joke driving this family comedy with a screenplay by Chris Columbus, adapted from John Grisham's novel "Skipping Christmas".
The joke driving the film, which is about a couple who decide to ignore Christmas and go on vacation, was described by Stephen Holden of The New York Times as "lockstep suburban conformism enforced with fascist severity".
Because punishment suffers a smaller disadvantage when cooperation is common, even weak conformism (combined with payoff-biased transmission) can stabilize punishment against the invasion of second-order free riders who cooperate but do not punish.
We hop from the farcical whimsy of old folks, as they bust out of the retirement home, to the severe and glittering saga of Neo-Seoul, which is constructed as an Orwellian satire on corporate conformism, but which as with the Wachowskis' work on the "Matrix" franchise becomes laughably oppressive in its insistence that every character must, under all circumstances, retain a poker face.
They typically came of age in the 1950s, when consensus reigned, and with it conformism.
We hop from the farcical whimsy of old folks, as they bust out of the retirement home, to the severe and glittering saga of Neo-Seoul, which is constructed as an Orwellian satire on corporate conformism, but which — as with the Wachowskis' work on the "Matrix" franchise — becomes laughably oppressive in its insistence that every character must, under all circumstances, retain a poker face.
From John Milton's polemics against the Presbyterian attempts to enforce Calvinist censorship on the England of the 1640s, via John Stuart Mill's rebellion against the conformism of the Victorians, to Salman Rushdie's argument with the Islamists, the urge to defend and expand freedom of speech has been created by the threats of its enemies What applies to great writers applies to everyone else.
The end of conformism has left us uncomfortable with our social environment, with our fellow citizens.
While Arthur defies conformism in general, Colin is more aware of class barriers, with the governor (Michael Redgrave) and his associates personifying the establishment.
