When Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) intones grace in The Ice Storm, she refers to Vietnam, Native American genocide, and capitalist greed before her father (Kevin Kline) stops her. The camera allows her words to emerge like sharp barbs from a deceptively complacent (and even boring) veneer of civility.

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