The Hunger Games has turned out to be one of 2012's most welcome surprises: a popcorn movie with enough satirical clout to satisfy those keen on dystopian scenarios.
The "threat" expressed in this satirical piece was enough to initiate criminal proceedings against the journalist, and on September 14, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital, from which he escaped several days later.
When he engages in a meaningless affair with a family friend (Anne Bancroft), then promptly falls in love with her daughter (Katharine Ross), the final showdown in a steel and glass, post-modern chapel contains enough satirical symbolism for ten movies.
It's satirical, but plenty of other hip-hop is satirical.
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Nov. 16 at 3: An all-Russian cast sings a concert performance of "The Love for Three Oranges," an adaptation of Gozzi's satirical masterpiece — which Prokofiev, oddly enough, composed while in New York.
Trimalchio is the quintessence of the parvenu, a figure familiar enough in ancient satirical literature, but especially so in the 1st century ad, when freedmen as a class were at their most influential.
Again, it's typically vulgar, coquettish, satirical, vivid, sparse, and just whimsical enough that listeners wonder whether it was based on a true scene, and whether they could pull off the joke themselves.
The A.V. Club writer Zack Handlen appreciated the timeliness and relevancy of the subject matter, but felt "the satirical target here wasn't meaty enough to warrant a full episode, and the developing plot just felt too half-assed".
The set is anonymously suburban without being quite sitcom-ish or retro enough to get across any satirical ideas.
