Word: braved
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...older poet asked for it--begged for it. Rimbaud is Verlaine's slut, coquette, dominatrix and muse. This rollicking atrocity of a film offers the most convulsive affair in the DiCaprio oeuvre, and the clearest image of the awful power the young, gorgeous and deranged have over those brave and stupid enough to fall in love with them...
...DiCaprio. It was smart of Boyle to court him for the part, brave of the actor to take it. Let's have a new kind of action star, one who calls into question (as the character and the film do) the very need for violent action movies. That's DiCaprio here: less Rambo than Rimbaud; a wild child back in the jungle. And, like Arnie and Hank and the Kid, a little boy lost. But the role doesn't play to all his strengths. He's most seductive when in repose; here he is on the move, reacting to trouble...
...course, not everyone agrees: The McCain camp is wearing a brave face; advisers are quick to offer excuses for McCain's loss. This was not, they say, a referendum on McCain's "electability." Results in conservative South Carolina, they go on to spin, are hardly repr'sentative of the nation as a whole - Michigan's primary will be a more accurate predictor of general voting sentiment. And, as the talking heads, ever anxious to keep the contest alive, are quick to point out, while the support of the religious right was a wonderful tool for Bush in South Carolina...
Penn's music, on the other hand, has retained the mix of Beatles-esque pop catchiness and the lyrical legerdemain worthy of Dylan that has been a hallmark of his music since his first album in 1989. From the verbal barrage of "Brave New World" to the pensive ramblings of "Bunker Hill," Penn challenged the audience not to hum along to the witty songs...
...flip-flops aren't about to cut it when the temperature is 40 below. Of course, when you finally get to the laundry room, you find that the one deranged person who woke up before ten to do his laundry has used up all of the machines. Rather than brave the cold a second time, you opt to wait for the washer with six minutes left on its timer, and find out that a washer with six minutes left on the display takes about as long as a football game with six minutes left on the clock...