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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Andrew Huff via Flickr Read the whole thing here , I didn&#8217;t want to post the whole review. Nice Movie Review from /film But what I appreciated most was the way that the film captured the modern American male condition with thought and humor. On the whole, when men get married, study after [...]]]></description>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035597898@N01/3332783873">Andrew Huff</a> via Flickr</dd>
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<p>Read the whole thing <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/21/movie-review-i-love-you-man-capturing-the-modern-american-male-condition/">here </a>, I didn&#8217;t want to post the whole review.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nice Movie Review from /film</p>
<p>But what I appreciated most was the way that the film captured the modern American male condition with thought and humor. On the whole, when men get <a class="zem_slink" title="Marriage" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage">married</a>, study after study has demonstrated that they are more likely to depend more on their spouses for emotional support than they do on others, as opposed to females, who are typically able to maintain a more extensive <a class="zem_slink" title="Social network" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network">social network</a>. As a result, widowed men experience higher rates of depression and shorter periods until remarriage. When you couple this with conclusions such as those found in sociologists <a class="zem_slink" title="Robert D. Putnam" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam">Robert Putnam</a>’s book, <a class="zem_slink" title="Bowling Alone" rel="homepage" href="http://www.bowlingalone.com/">Bowling Alone</a>: The Collapse and Revival of the American Community, you end up with a profound <a class="zem_slink" title="Cynicism" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism">cynicism</a> about the emotional life of the modern American male that’s become fairly pervasive in our culture (see: <a class="zem_slink" title="Fight Club" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0393039765%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0393039765">Fight Club</a>). Putnam paints a pretty bleak picture of American social life, claiming that the ties that have bound us in our <a class="zem_slink" title="Community" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community">communities</a> (e.g. <a class="zem_slink" title="Bowling" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling">bowling</a> leagues) have withered dramatically to the detriment of <a class="zem_slink" title="Civic engagement" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_engagement">civic engagement</a>. In other words, these days, it’s difficult for men to keep quality male friends, and even harder for them to make new ones.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/21/movie-review-i-love-you-man-capturing-the-modern-american-male-condition/">Movie Review: I Love You, Man &#8211; Capturing the Modern American Male Condition | /Film</a>.</p>
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