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You can tell that Clive Riordan, the villain in Edward Dmytryk’s Obsession (1949), is a thwarted and disturbed person because he owns an elaborate model railway
by dfxm12 5y ago
You can tell that Clive Riordan, the villain in Edward Dmytryk’s Obsession (1949), is a thwarted and disturbed person because he owns an elaborate model railway.
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[In Animal Crossing] They could also pay a visit to ‘Joe’s Train Town’, a basement room featuring an array of model railway sets. This touch was presumably meant to evoke Biden’s old-fashioned decency and pioneer spirit, while expressing a vaguely greenish, vaguely leftish regard for mass-transit infrastructure; I took it as confirmation that anyone who aspires to be Commander in Chief must have a Riordanesque streak.
What? Biden famously commuted on Amtrak to work for decades. That's what this was meant to evoke. That the author is so out of touch as to assert this nonsense above does not really instill in me any confidence in their ability to analyze pop culture and its relationship to the real world.
Is the rest of the article this off base?
- isaiahg 5y ago“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions."
- prox 5y agoThis is indeed a big oversight and if the article had been proofread it might have held some merits, but reading and them skimming this is more an awkward collection of observations, loosely jointed by some similarities.