Word: amnesiacs
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Interestingly, Gray chooses to enclose this achievement of realism within a frame narrative that is pure fantasy. The story of Lanark, a young amnesiac who inhabits a strange, dystopian world, neatly bookends Thaw’s. The two narratives never directly intersect: to Lanark, Thaw is only a character in a story told to him in a hospital (admittedly, a story that takes up two hundred pages...
...surely not saying that Harvard is perfect—it is far from that. What I am saying is that Harvard should be appreciated as a place to laugh at and love for its idiosyncrasies. Harvard is like a slightly amnesiac grandmother who still thinks she’s living in 1939, but has lots of fun and interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course...
...Herein, that consists of apprehending that rogue amnesiac, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon). He?s still trying to fill in the last of his past?s blank spots, which continue to give him guilty, sweaty dreams. His many enemies, led by Joan Allen and Brian Cox - she?s efficient and chilly, he?s passionate and scary - remain convinced he has a hidden agenda that somehow threatens Western Civilization As We Know It. We, of course, are just along for the ride, which, as director Paul Greengrass conducts it, consists of a succession of chases in cars and on foot, punctuated...
...Murphy is an actress I've followed since 1984, when at 25 she played the mother in Galt MacDermot's "The Human Comedy." She was a smash as an amnesiac chanteuse in the off-Broadway "Song of Singapore," as the obsessive jilted lover in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" and as a dark-hued Anna in the 1996 Broadway revival of "The King and I." Here she uses her kabuki face to all manner of deadpan delight, then goes into giddy spasms in the dance numbers. She's Buster Keaton in repose, Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show...
That's just one view of an amnesiac romance so rich and demanding, it could mean anything. Kaufman may be counting on the audience's will, insistence and yearning to create a coherent love story from the shards and shrapnel he provides us. The movie warns, This will be a bumpy ride, steered by two people who can be hard to like, making detours into wormholes, in a plot that laps itself. Care to come along...