NANNY DIARIES

I watched the "Nanny Diaries" this afternoon and realized that the movie illustrates what pisses me off about Kraybills' detached observer role. Throughout the movie Scarlett Johansson's character Annie (yea, so I drooled a bit.) makes anthropological comments in reference to other characters in the movie. But in the end, she steps out of her observer role and speaks directly to the other characters about what she has observed, thus creating change that couldn't have happened had she remained aloof and detached.