Word: anti-american
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...jury issued no manifesto, so festivalgoers were left to paint their own conspiracy theories. And while it wildly oversimplifies Elephant and Dogville to see them as primarily, or even tangentially, anti-American, the jury did honor a film critical of the American addiction to gun violence--as it did with a prizewinner last year, Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine...
This isn't a terrific film; it's a murmuring, meandering study with an apocalyptic punch line. But the corpses strewing the school corridors don't make the movie anti-American, any more than Hamlet is anti-Danish. Elephant depicts evil, and the ordinary people who, through bad luck, get in its way. --By Richard Corliss
Furry said that in 1946 he noticed an anti-American trend in Party literature and by the following year had severed his ties with the group...
...world could end in America: with a bang. Dogville - like Von Trier's best-known films, Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark - is a parable of inner beauty defiled, except that, this time, the heroine gets to kill all her attackers. The film was also labeled anti-American, because that's today's fragrance. But Von Trier is mainly a cinema experimentalist, and Dogville is another of his clever ideas stretched to the breaking point. He resolved to make a movie with no sets, just the floor outline of the town's homes and stores, with empty door...
...natural allies - Tehran almost went to war with al-Qaeda's Taliban hosts in Afghanistan in 1998, following Taliban massacres of Afghan Shiites. The extremist theology that inspires both the Taliban and al-Qaeda sees Shiites as infidels, although bin Laden is on record advocating unity for purposes of anti-American jihad. The reformist elected leadership in Tehran has sought to repair its relationships with the West and rehabilitate Iran diplomatically, but the hard-liners may have hedged their bets. It remains unlikely that the government of President Mohammed Khatami has made common cause with al-Qaeda operatives, although...