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Eaten away by the Everglades, Florida is a drowned state, the end of  America, and thus the ideal setting for a story about the end of  American manhood. This is the tip of the country; this is a peninsula  that pokes feebly at the ocean, which feels nothing.

At This Recording, Elizabeth Gumport assesses John McNaughton’s neglected 1998 masterpiece, Wild Things .

Eaten away by the Everglades, Florida is a drowned state, the end of America, and thus the ideal setting for a story about the end of American manhood. This is the tip of the country; this is a peninsula that pokes feebly at the ocean, which feels nothing.

At This Recording, Elizabeth Gumport assesses John McNaughton’s neglected 1998 masterpiece, Wild Things .

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