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The core of the book is about life inside the juvenile justice system, portrayed with the grit and depressing realism of someone who knows.
Also noting the depressing Realism utilized in the story, editor Vincent Starrett stated: "It is a desolate picture, and the tale is one of our greatest short stories".
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He has succeeded in turning around the French cinematic cliché that romping comedies take place in the south, usually on a beach, and the north is reserved for depressing social realism.
Loach, best known for his often grim and depressing social realism, is something of a Cannes film festival favourite, taking the Palme d'Or three years ago with The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
This blast of realism would be depressing even if it did not happen to coincide with three urgent and intimately connected crises in the country's politics, economy and security.
4 popped kernels (Scale: 0-4) The long slow decline of a loved one is heartbreaking... this film explores many of the issues Popcorn Profile Rated: PG-13 Audience: Grown-ups Distribution: Art house Mood: Depressing Tempo: Slow moving Visual Style: Unvarnished realism Character Development: Intense Language: True to life Social Significance: Thought provoking.
Popcorn Profile Audience: Grown-ups Distribution: Art house Mood: Depressing Tempo: Cruises comfortably Visual Style: Unvarnished realism Primary Driver: Cultural concept Language: True to life Social Significance: Thought provoking.
The other thing that I find depressing about such articles is the vocabulary of "realism" and "being grownup", echoing the new official speak of the coalition Liberal Democrats, as if this were all one big inevitability.
So the fourth, most important and most depressing lesson for the great deleveraging is that of realism.
The former children's laureate thinks that "realism has gone too far in literature for children", and that the depressing endings of the books of today "do little to inspire".
Very depressing.
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