The press» presentation of Francis» words gives parish priests a chance
to speak directly to their people
about what Francis really said and thereby
to teach them
something about the Church's thinking, which is otherwise harder
to do in a homily without its sounding like a lecture.
Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants
to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (
Speaking of sexism, can we talk
about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety,
directly implying that there's
something different — worse, more offensive —
about the same of the female kind?).
There is
something about drawings on paper that
speak directly and intimately
to the artist's hand, and so the emotional cues are at odds with the conceptual framework, and this creates a huge space for becoming interested not only in the project as a whole but in each individual drawing as its own spark.