Word: admirableã
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...dimensional, aiming only to frighten the audience. The movie also avoids exploring the intriguing social question posed by the similarity between both Burnham’s and Meg’s familiar devotion. Whereas Meg’s struggles to protect her daughter are portrayed as valiant and admirable??a mother’s natural instincts—Burnham’s motives for breaking into the Altman’s brownstone, while objectively no less admirable, (his drive to reach the millions hidden in the panic room is motivated by his need to finance his fight...
That there is a double standard at work here should be obvious. No government official from a right-wing regime would ever be offered a Harvard position. No professor here would ever say it was “admirable?? that a visiting academic had served under Augusto Pinochet in Chile, or Francisco Franco in Spain. No one would blather on about “the quality of a person’s scholarly work, not his or her politics,” if the politics in question were fascist...