Posted on 05/12/02
The power of negative thinking
The era of affirmation and self-love is over, you useless piece of garbage. Self-loathing, in a spate of recent movies, is the hot spark that leads to creative combustion. Eminem beats his rapper rivals by dissing himself more than they would dare in 8 Mile; Jerry Seinfeld, in the documentary Comedian, shows the emotional self-flagellation that compels the standup comic; in Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler's character hurts himself on mirrors and concrete walls because, he says, "I don't like myself very much." They're mad as hell and it's their own stupid fault.
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