It Is Not, However, Altogether Inaccurate
September 12, 2003
The movie’s idea of parenthood is a familiar one, at once cautionary and comforting: having a child, it suggests, will wreck your life, but it will also make you a better person. (This notion, needless to say, is wildly narcissistic, absurdly melodramatic and unconscionably sentimental. It is not, however, altogether inaccurate.)
from A. O. Scott’s review of Matchstick Men,
The New York Times
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Jenny
I’m just waiting for the “it will make you a better person” part to kick in.