“Sardonic”: Best Suited for Reviews, Not Voiceovers

As Prozac Nation finally surfaces, premiering “without fanfare” on the Starz! cable channel, Slate‘s Dana Stevens pauses to reflect on the reasons for its (only mild, she says) badness:

Granted, Prozac Nation is an extremely silly movie, but let’s face it: self-dramatizing middle-class girls who stay up for days on end writing Harvard Crimson articles about Lou Reed (“I feel his cold embrace, his sly caress”) are inherently silly people. [...] On her first day at Harvard, Lizzie sits down on a cardboard box to strategize with her roommate about their college personae: “We’ll be like these beautiful literary freaks … brilliant and dark and sexy.” As they laugh and puff reflectively at their cigarettes, she adds in a sardonic voiceover, “The trouble is, I was deadly serious.”

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