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...should we concern ourselves with this hateful tyrant, whose life the movie traces for nearly half a century starting with his immigration to Japan from Korea in 1920? The most obvious reason is that Kim is played by "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese actor-director whose blind-swordsman movie Zatoichi won him best-director honors at last year's Venice Film Festival. Shunpei Kim is Kitano's first lead role under another director in more than a decade, and the best performance of an illustrious career. But an equally important force behind what may be this year's best Japanese...
Essentially structured as a love comedy, the picture’s form ultimately proves elusive. At its center is the theme of the dangers associated with a mad pursuit of the dream vision of love, a vision so compelling that it can blind us to the good things that stare us in the face. Consequently, it cannot quite conform to the demands imposed by the artifice of comedy...
Looking back, Shanti Debi thinks it was the night her husband Kishen Chand went blind that she first saw things clearly. Awakened by her daughter screaming that she was suffocating, Shanti thought she could smell burning chilies. The next moment, everyone was being sick. And right then, Shanti's life, and Bhopal's social fabric, began to disintegrate. "Everybody just rushed out," she says. "Nobody cared about anybody else. I even left my own children. Everybody just cared about saving their own life...
While many rightly protest the staggering death toll from the Darfur conflict, which has reached almost 70,000, most of us are blind to the toll inflicted by our own government several hundred miles to the east in Iraq. Of course, this ignorance is not entirely our fault. Some of the blame rests on the official policy of the U.S. government, which suppresses the Iraqi casualty count. In an honest revelation of priorities, the U.S. government does, through the National Agricultural Statistics Service, keep meticulous data on the herd sizes and deaths of hogs, pigs, cattle, poultry, sheep, and ewes...
...fascist general Francisco Franco. At least one, philosophy student Eugene Bronstein, was killed in battle, but his name appears nowhere in campus memorials to Harvard’s war dead. It is time for Harvard to honor those who saw what was happening when the University turned a blind eye, those who acted against Nazism when the administration...