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Does anyone know what this is about? I've seen it compared to "Crash" but I wasn't sure. I loved Onegin.

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This is a synopsis that has appeared on several promotional materials and sites:

"What do you do when your wife Iona Aylesbury (Kristin Scott Thomas) can’t tell the difference between a shrink and a shop, your eight year old son Orlando spray paints his rabbit’s name on the walls to get attention, whilst his gay godfather Stephen (Ralph Fiennes) lies half beaten to death in hospital? Your boss is drawing you into a scam, which could cost you your career, your father Edward Aylesbury (Ian Holm) has an illegitimate love child with his former mistress, Gloria (Penelope Cruz). Her social worker Colin, (Rhys Ifans), cannot help prying in to her past and present, and your stepmother Penelope’s bond with her dogs is your best role model of a loving relationship? Every family has a secret it hides behind the walls of its home… and these are the dilemmas and secrets of Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis). When Marcus’s old “friend” Trent, (Ben Chaplin) a tabloid journalist, gets wind of a story he knows will make him a media star, the good old virtues of honesty, loyalty and friendship are sacrificed to the new morality of success and celebrity. This darkly comedic drama relentlessly pulls these characters into situations which threaten their stable place in a society where privilege and birth are no longer powerful enough to protect the fortunate few, and where the American values of money, beauty and success have become the cornerstones of contemporary London life."

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"where the American values of money, beauty and success have become the cornerstones of contemporary London life."

Right, 'cause no one ever valued those things in all of western civilization until America came along...

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Word.
Pathetic how they are trying to increase the film's appeal by feeding on the current pervasive (open and latent) anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere.

where the values of money, beauty and success have become the cornerstones of contemporary London life.


The sentence makes perfect sense without the negative values being exclusively "American". Stupid.


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