I say this partly because Ms. Peirce's movie, which she wrote with Mark Richard, is not only an earnest, issue-driven narrative, but also a feverish entertainment, a passionate, at times overwrought melodrama gaudy with violent actions and emotions.
Some of the finalists from the nonprofit pool, which has raised almost $1 million so far, joined Arianna Huffington's Chief of Staff Dan Koh to discuss lighthearted efforts such as the Men Of HuffPost calendar, which supports RaiseForWomen, as well as more earnest issues such as shifting paradigms toward gender roles globally.
Before rebuilding can begin in earnest, issues such as land rights and safety regulations need to be addressed and the reconstruction done in an equitable and sustainable manner.
For the rest of the world, though, as the countdown to Russia's World Cup begins in earnest, the issue of racism is a vitally important one.
There was never much doubt about the outcome, but at one point he issued an earnest warning: "Take care to not weaken your king's position unnecessarily".
In other words, viewers may find it a genuine relief from the earnest biographical and issue advertisements on which the parties and major candidates have been spending tens of millions of dollars all summer.
But the talk also turned in earnest to the issues of racial injustice and Mississippi's past, themes that permeated most of Morris's 18 books.
Even before Mr. Obama fully wraps up the Democratic presidential nomination, he and Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, are starting to assemble teams in the key battlegrounds, develop negative advertising and engage each other in earnest on the issues and a combustible mix of other topics, including age and patriotism.
While much theatre of the time tackled serious social and political issues, Earnest is superficially about nothing at all.
But conservatives issued earnest pleas all summer for him to do and say more to open that door Castellanos spoke of, and in September, those cries grew even louder.
