A generation ago, Europe was leading the way toward a saner approach to national boundaries, which in some ways contrasted with the militarized security phalanx along the U.S.-Mexico border.
That makes the primary challenge to discover how to satisfy those cravings while staying as best as I can within the boundaries of what we know to be sane, or conscious, or well-informed — call it what you will — eating.
Describing Maeve as a formidable figure who represents a call to action Starhawk wrote; "For me, she's the inspiration to fight for the wild things, and to dare to transgress the boundaries of what people consider sensible and sane".
But it is also one of the few movies that takes an authentically sane and detached approach to promiscuity, showing its characters engaged across the boundaries of their individual relationships in the single-minded pursuit of pleasure.
It's arguably bolder than either in its smooth blurring of bourgeois boundaries between gay/straight, masculine/feminine and possibly sane/insane.
Perfectly sane, says Sheltam.
