What makes “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” interesting, to the extent that something that’s so fundamentally idiotic and soul-deadening can also be “interesting,” is what you might call its aesthetic and ontological ambivalence.
From Andrew O’Hehir’s review at Salon.
A Thinking Reed 
Might this quote trigger Andrew Sullivan’s Poseur Alert?
I’m trying to figure out what aesthetic and ontological ambivalence is. I think it means, “I don’t know if I’m pretty or ugly. Hell, I don’t know if I’m dead or alive!”