Sunday, April 8, 2012

Publix "Head of the Table" Thanksgiving Commercial

I'm as sentimental as the next guy. Sure I cry at It's a Wonderful Life and The Best Years of our Lives and all those coming-home films. But there is something about Publix commercials that seems so manipulative, insipid and fake. I tried the find the newest one with the oh-so-loving brother and sister, but it wasn't on YouTube. I don't know what it is. The people look right ,the setting is nice, the words are fine. But the damn thing just doesn't feel real. Maybe because everything is so perfect and everybody so properous and well-dressed. Or maybe it's because these commercials are segregated and it reminds me that people are still segregaed. Or maybe I'm just cynical.

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