女神殿

homily



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–noun
1. a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
2. an admonitory or moralizing discourse.
3. an inspirational saying or cliché. 


　
 With a sun-spotted approach evoking equal parts Dogme 95 and Go Ask Alice, first-time director Jordan Melamed's languish[ing] 2001 Sundance-screened debut dutifully updates the plotless life-in-institution film to account for recent developments in rap-metal. 

Manic's milieu is a lockdown, pill-policed juvie detention center housing a supervised and therapized jumble of violent and sexual offenders, traumatized abusees, and recent-onset schizophrenics. At times, especially when soft talk/big stick counselor Don Cheadle is pressed into [preacher] mode, the mood gets Sipowicz-style homiletic. 

But often the script (co-written by Michael Bacall, who plays sardonic bipolar rich kid Chad) rings clear with mouths-of-babes declamations that all pained kids spew before down[ing] adulthood's suck-it-up Kool-Aid.


remonstrate
expostulate
where they expostulate their [views] on life and reflect on the state of their relationships with one another
exhort 
admonish & encourage!!!
exponent
a person or thing that expounds
an exponent of modern [theory] in the arts.  
[Lincoln] is an exponent of American democracy.  
As a strict [exponent] of unpleasure, however, Haneke will permit none of the narrative thrills the Coens provide in their funny games.
Flabbergast