comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . 
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(ROOT (S (VP (VBZ ) (ADVP (ADVP (RB ) (JJR )) (PP (IN ) (NP (JJ ) (NNS ))) (PP (IN ) (S (VP (VBG ) (NP (NP (NP (DT ) (NN )) (SBAR (S (NP (NP (JJ )) (PP (IN ) (NP (PRP )))) (VP (VBP ))))) (, ) (NP (NP (NN )) (PP (IN ) (S (VP (NP (VBG ) (NP (NN ) (HYPH ) (NN ))) (CC ) (ADVP (RB )) (VP (VBG ) (NP (NN ))))))))))))) (. )))