The Diary of a Teenage Girl does neither, refusing to play safe and messily handing us something far closer to reality.
Approving such irresponsible and reactionary legislation highlights Israel's long decades of injustice to Palestinians and hands us something of a political victory.
Kindness, on the other hand, gives us something to offer – if we accidentally trip someone, we can pick them up again, or at the very least, crack a joke while they wait for help.
He is hardly out of step with Indiana norms the state went for Barack Obama in 2008 but he is close enough to the centre that it's not odd that he would attract a primary challenger.Mr Hatch's travails, on the other hand, tell us something interesting about the tea-party movement itself.
"And we all sang a song I wrote: 'We are the future generations, we hold the future in our hand, please help us something something something, please help us make them understand' " — his lilting baritone broke off into laughter.
He raised his hand to show us something about the painting -- and at that moment, his elbow crashed backwards right through the canvas.
In The Spectator, British journalist and biographer Patrick Marnham wrote: "Dr Aue cannot be brought to trial because he does not exist; on the other hand, he can give us something even more valuable than vengeance, something that no real war criminal can manage, and that is total honesty".
So thank you, Noel Berry and everyone involved with Open Hands, for giving all of us something we can feel good about.
We have all had that moment in our lives when we are down and distressed, and then someone hands us a bowl of something we love to eat.
On the other hand, when something happens in us the cause of which lies outside of our nature, then we are passive and being acted upon.
