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Nov 14, 2008

Out of Frame: Momma’s Man

Thirtysomething men in a state of arrested or regressed development. Is there a sociological phenomenon more over-analyzed in recent cinema? Men who can’t commit, men who can’t grow up, men using every excuse imaginable to justify their inability to function as mature adults. We’re “a generation of men raised by women,” whined Tyler Durden famously in Fight Club, giving a scapegoat to legions of aggro dudes who never got that he wasn’t the hero of…

 
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