Film Review: "The Good Man" and relegating good intentions to the dustbin

From Africa is a Country Thu Jul 10 2014, 11:00:18

In Chicago literary scholar Lauren Berlant's formulation, cruel optimism describes an object of desire that is, in her words, "actually an obstacle to your flourishing." This optimism becomes cruel, she explains, "when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially." One example she gives, drawing upon the [...]

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