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Veljkovik recounts how he was only a toddler when his father abandoned the family, leaving his mother alone to care for her young son. At the age of eight, Veljkovik came to bear an adult burden when his mother suffered a severe stroke. “She was paralyzed, “ says Veljkovik. “I looked after my mother—changing her clothes, taking care of her.” Veljkovik’s mother suffered another stroke as he entered his freshman year of high school; she passed away shortly thereafter...
Editorial boards at the Miami Herald, the Washington Times and, Monday, The Crimson as well have beseeched the United States government to take a role in righting Bolivia’s sinking government. They want to see foreign attention brought to bear on Bolivia’s domestic problems. But if there’s anything we should have learned here in America, it’s that a civil society cannot band together, cannot hold peace, when it is so caustically divided by race and racially dictated class barriers...
...Boston street in the late '70s. Three boys are fooling around when a man who seems to be a police detective orders one of the boys, Dave, into a car. For days, Dave is held captive and sexually abused. A quarter-century later, all three of the old pals bear scars. Dave (Tim Robbins) is not so much the walking wounded as the walking dead, a zombie with a caring sadness. Sean (Kevin Bacon), now a cop, watched his wife walk out on him six months ago, but he's still faithfully married to his misery. Jimmy (Penn...
...counterbalance to today's facetious, preadolescent movie environment, however, these two dark, ambitious dramas have much to recommend them--and a lot in common. Both are ensemble pieces that intercut the activities and attitudes of three despairing people. Both pictures are, in a way, deeply Catholic statements about grieving--bearing the burden of death in the midst of life--and the ways to face and overcome it. ("Jesus didn't come to save us from pain," someone says in 21 Grams. "He came to help us bear the pain.") In both movies, a violent family loss forces Penn's character...
...fellows and have their inspiring approval and praise—a yearning which is commonly so strong and so insistent that it cannot be effectually resisted and must have its way.” Conformity is the recourse of the man who “can’t bear to be in disfavor, can’t endure the averted face and the cold shoulder, wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome, wants to hear the precious words, ‘He’s on the right track...