Finally, the thing that most people miss with Eat Pray Love is that it is a piece of satire, a pin-sharp mockery of the source book and all its can-do, "you-go-girl", chakra-aligning aphorisms.
The vision is uncannily like Tom Wolfe's in both tone and subject matter: wonderfully sharp, broad mockery of metropolitan manners combined with weird autodidactic philosophizing and an extraordinary idealization of a nonmetropolitan class of heroes.
"Life in Hell" was a safe, visually appealing realm for sharp self-mockery.
Instead, Arizona was dubbed "immigration ground" zero when a series of volatile street protests burst in Phoenix in the fall of 2007, and now with the passage of 1070, it has also become the epicenter of sharp criticism and mockery around the nation and the world in 2010.
The scheme, which kicked off by getting baristas to write Race Together on coffee cups, attracted sharp criticism and social media mockery.
This was the show's sharpest bit, playing off the mockery that accompanied the recent release of Curry's Under Armour sneakers.
They are also irreverent, sharp and amusing, the kinds of movies that make a mockery of contemporary notions of political correctness.
Making a meager living as a housekeeper and laundress, Séraphine (Yolande Moreau) is, when we first encounter her, an eccentric and slightly pathetic local character, a figure of pity and sometimes mockery, her dignity protected by a temperament that is at once sharp and childlike, and by a talent that she views as guided by angels.
Indonesia jailed six men for up to 20 months for the slaying of three United Nations aid workers in West Timor, drawing sharp criticism from the organization's refugee agency, which employed the workers and called the sentences "a mockery" of calls for justice.
It's that gift for self-mockery, a razor-sharp appreciation of life and his own neuroses - even as he is struggling in their vice-like grip - that makes him at once so endearingly contemporary and at the same time so extravagantly one-of-a-kind.
