Probing Class Consciousness
di Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times
At first glance “The Education of Charlie Banks” seems a nostalgic coming-of-age drama about facing fears and forming character. But if you narrow your eyes and tilt your head, you’ll see quite a different story: a prickly examination of the sturdiness of class boundaries and the illusion of inclusion.
For Charlie (Jesse Eisenberg), an awkward, middle-class teenager from Greenwich Village, the Ivy League experience in the early 1980s is greased by his acceptance into a hedonistic clique of trust-fund babies. [...]
di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (1576 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 27 Marzo 2009