Snooty NYT

I went to see "Nacho Libre" on Saturday night. It was entertaining. Manohla Dargis' movie review in the New York Times was a bit excessive, though. If this comment is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, it's kind of funny...but if she's serious, this would be bad for an Intro to Film student assignment:

"Mr. Black's arrhythmic use of the word "whatever" verges on the Brechtian — and it also works to the film's liberating vision of identity as a performance space, an existential wrestling ring, if you will, in which each of us, if only given the opportunity, can cavort freely in the mask and colored tights of our choosing."

Brechtian? Hmmm...well, I think Jack Black is really a pretty smart guy, so I looked up "Brechtian" on wikipedia. I appreciate the film much more now that I realize that he was going for an, um, Verfremdungseffekt.