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Mr. Garland, a novelist turned screenwriter making his directing debut, sets an eerily, cleverly unsettled stage. The prowling camerawork establishes a sense of absolute control that fits with this strange fishbowl world and is accentuated by copious production design details, including the glass walls and ubiquitous security cameras. He plays with visual contrasts — Mr. Isaac’s compact, muscled body and Mr. Gleeson’s long, drooping one, picture windows that look out onto an expansively lush landscape and windowless rooms that register as upmarket prison cells — that dovetail with the narrative’s multiple, amusingly deployed dualities: confinement and liberation, agency and submission, mind and body. It sounds more serious than it plays because while Mr. Garland wants to tease your brain, he’s an entertainer, and in time ditches science and philosophy for romance and action.
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Similarly, people seem to be obsessed with decluttering their homes these days, but you’re known for keeping your house filled with all sorts of treasures. Why? I love clutter. I think being totally minimal shows a lack of history and soul, and I find it sort of pitiful. I think it’s wonderful to have stuff and live with memories and things you enjoy.
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...u’re also a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Do you think style can be taught? No. Fashion expertise, yes. But style has nothing to do with how much you spend on your clothes. The most stylish people I’ve seen in my life were in Naples right after the Second World War. They were all practically in tatters. But the way they threw themselves together and carried themselves, they really looked like a squillion dollars.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Epstein attended Lafayette High School. He attended classes at Cooper Union from 1969 to 1971 and then at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, leaving without a degree. From 1973 to 1975 he taught calculus and physics at ...
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Built in the 1930s to house over 4,000 students, the school has been low performing in the last decades and is on track to close (there are just under 400 students left). However, the school can still claim to have the largest number of alumni become baseball players of any high school in New York (21, including Sandy Koufax!)
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“C'est la vie” is French for “that’s life,” a phrase that’s usually used to downplay a minor disappointment. It’s also a pretty popular song title. Here, it also may mean the end of life—Kodak has people off their feet when he takes them out. Kodak is also Haitian and the primary language in Haiti is Créole and the secondary is French.
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10 toes down is also a reference to his song in the album heart of the projects
Rather then C'est la vie kodak says Selavii in this line, a common phrase used by members of SniperGang. John Wicks (Kodaks acquaintance) titles him self Mr Selavii and has the word tattooed on his left arm.