I found an answer at another film, Alan Zweig’s I, Curmudgeon. Zweig, a Canadian director, is known for his documentary Vinyl, which delved into the strange world of obsessive record collectors. In his new film he focusses on another group of outsiders: social malcontents cursed with the inability to censor themselves. The funny, sad and articulate bunch who voice their opinions in I, Curmudgeon range from the author Fran Lebowitz to the comedian Scott Thompson to many of Zweig’s bitter friends. All are disdainful of contemporary society and they don’t care who knows it. Does that make them curmudgeons? Best line: “I’m not negative. I’m a frustrated optimist.”