WWTW won’t ‘change,’ don’t ask me

Hope and change are effective buzz words in today’s political climate, but they only go so far.

Film critic Emanuel Levy, in his review of the new Renee Zellweger comedy “New in Town,” ends his critique on this peculiar note:

The movie must have been in the works before Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and call for basic changes in our personal and collective lives, and I hope Hollywood would respond with better, more challenging picture to the new exciting zeitgeist.

What if our personal and collective lives are just fine as is, thanks for asking?

Hard to tell if Levy is correctly translating Obama’s message to his readers, or he’s taking the new president’s campaign rhetoric to new levels.

Either way, it gave me the creeps.

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