"Cat"- A guy. "Square"- An uncool type of person.
The music is an interesting assertion of the uncool, stolidly Anglo-Saxon character of this parochial, islanded corner of America – evoked not with conventional nostalgia, rather with a connoisseurship of how strange and different it seems.
"It was the time The Office had come out and it was so good, so accurate and I just thought, it makes me look unbearably uncool going round doing stupid characters.
In fact, in this celebration of uncool, she is the only cool character, as a result of her self-assurance.
Leto's performance was so void of nuance and subtlety, it made any subtext supertext, and turned the character into an agonizingly uncool failure of a villain.
In the currency of social media, black and white trumped color; pensive, vulnerable expressions won out; content about Hoffman's addiction was more relevant than that without; and a scene from "Almost Famous," in which Hoffman's character dispenses practical wisdom about being "uncool," became the video clip considered the most illustrative of his life.
His characters were sincere in the most uncool way.
There are laughs to be had in realising that this is super-cool Brad Pitt we're watching, pretending to be uncool, but as with Linda there is limited comedy value in characters being just stupid.
Coming-of-age literature is filled with characters who experience themselves as outsiders — as loners, nerds, misunderstood artists or uncool, uptight geeks.
By the age of 20, she was writing, directing and appearing in short films featuring characters that bore an uncanny resemblance to herself: schlumpy, neurotic, funny, and so uncool they were cool.
