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Like many such stories, Tricked takes place in a city - though unnamed, it resembles L.A. - allowing it to naturally mix a cross-section of classes and ethnicities. Made up of short, numbered chapters that count down, like a bomb, rather than up, each focuses on one of the book's six major characters, then repeats the cycle. Each set begins with Ray Beam, a burnt-out pop star of ten years ago whose descent from debauched musical godling to weird, unproductive recluse resembles that of Axl Rose. He suddenly seems to find his muse in Lily, a young Hispanic-American...
...pursued through a war. Perry also criticized the Alaska-based National Missile Defense System as “simply irrelevant,” explaining that “a terrorist group would not use an Intercontinental ballistic missile to attack.” Today, he said, a bomb with the effects that devastated Hiroshima is about the size of a grapefruit. But Perry said that the task of building a nuclear bomb from scratch could not be accomplished by a single terrorist group without the aid of a nation state. What this means, he said, is that the U.S. should...
...Mendes’ third movie, and like his first two (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition”), it dances around the subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While...
After failing his mission, a young suicide bomber winces as the tape that sticks a bomb to his chest is roughly pulled off. “Couldn’t you use something that doesn’t hurt so much?” he asks, before realizing the absurdity of his statement...
...bleak geography of the West Bank: dusty olive groves; graffiti-streaked concrete walls; bustling markets; and oppressive barbed wire fences. The everyday life of residents of the city of Nablus is punctuated by the humiliation of checkpoints, reverberating calls to prayer, and the occasional sound of a bomb exploding. The film blatantly contrasts this oppressive landscape with the polished city of Tel Aviv, and the juxtaposition intentionally induces empathetic shock...