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Movie Review: Storytelling

Story lacks character development
With his 1996 debut film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, New Jersey filmmaker Todd Solondz showed incredible promise.

His exploration of teen angst was as insightful as it was honest.
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Storytelling reflects director's troubled world view
Todd Solondz is one of those directors who seems bent on exorcizing his personal demons onscreen.

The filmmaker's most notable movies have a running theme of human misery and inadequacy set against the hellish backdrop of white suburbia: Welcome To The Dollhouse featured an outcast young girl who hates her family and the bullies who torment her at school; Happiness boasted an obscene phone caller and a pedophile as its long-suffering protagonists.
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